As academic achievement at the Minneapolis
Public Schools has stagnated at already low levels, and for many demographic
categories declined, salaries at the Davis Center (MPS central offices, 1250
West Broadway) pertinent to key academic decision-makers has risen, in some
cases precipitously.
View first the pay raises that occurred
from academic year 2018-2019 to academic
year 2019-2020, then proceed to the summary of academic performance of students
for academic years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018--- the most recent five years for which data are
available (Minnesota Comprehensive Achievement [MCA] data for last academic
year 2018-2019 for individual school districts are not yet available).
As you peruse the salaries, note the
following:
Eric Moore served as Chief of Academics,
Leadership, and Learning from October 2018 into January 2019, was given an
“Interim” designation for that position for the remainder of the year beginning
with January 2019, and now has returned to exclusive e occupation of the Chief
of Research, Evaluation, Assessment, and Accountability position that he has
long occupied and continued to hold while serving as academics, leadership, and
learning chief. One can therefore follow
an unusual salary trajectory of rise and decline in his assumption and then
release of additional responsibility.
For academic year 2018-2019 the Executive Director of the Department of
Teaching and Learning positions was vacant---
but Deputy Chief of Academics, Leadership, and Learning Cecilia Saddler
led the department during that time.
Saddler’s salary has been boosted almost $7,000, even though Aimee
Fearing now occupies the position that had been vacant. Thus, one can observe an approximate
additional $142,000 central bureaucracy salary burden in an area in which
effective leadership has been most lacking.
Michael Walker has gone from a $114,000
salary when he first assumed the position of Director of Office of Black Male
Achievement in August 2014; his salary
rose as indicated below, from $128,160 in 2018-2019 to $133,137 in the current
academic year of 2019-2020. Walker has
been gravely ineffective and maintains the position only because to terminate
his employment in that position would be politically controversial.
Anna Ross served as Executive Director of
the Department of Indian Education during academic year 2018-2019 and had long
occupied the position; for that academic
year she received $119,422. Jennifer
Rose Simon now holds the position; with
less seniority that Ross, her salary is less at $109,273. This department is an academic disaster but
exists as a Minnesota legislative mandate.
Sara Etzel serves as Director of STEM/ CTE,
is effective in that position, and ably articulated the STEM/ CTE program in
the latest draft of the MPS Comprehensive District Design. But she also played a major part in conveying
the overall academic program that is the Design’s weakest, most jargon-infested
part.
Please proceed now to the slary
information, followed by the summary of academic results.
2018-2019 2019-2020
Ed Graff (Superintendent) $225,000 $230,000
Suzanne Kelly (Chief of Staff) $177,333
$185,402
Cecilia Saddler (Deputy Chief of Academics, $151,980 $158,896
Leadership, and Learning)
Eric Moore (Executive Director of ($147,900) $162,600
$154,630
Research,
Evaluation, Assessment, and Accountability)
Lashawn Harris-Berry (Associate
Superintendent) ----------- $150,896
Lashawn
Ray (Associate Superintendent) -----------
$150,896
Carla Steinbach-Huther $144,330 $150,896
(Associate
Superintendent)
Ronald Wagner (Associate Superintendent) $144,330
$150,896
Brian Zambreno (Associate Superintendent) $144,330
$150,896
Aimee Y. Fearing ----------- $135,000
(Executive Director of Teaching and Learning)
Michael Walker $128,160 $133,000
(Director,
Office of Black Male Achievement)
Sara Etzel Director, STEM/CTE $108,191 $112,005
Jennifer Rose Simon (Anna Ross, $119,422) $109,273
(Director, Department of Indian Education)
MPS Academic Proficiency Rates for
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, & 2018
Math
2014
2015 2016
2017 2018
African 23%
19%
19% 16%
17%
American
American
23%
19%
19% 16%
17%
Indian
Hispanic
31% 32%
31% 29%
26%
Asian
48% 50%
50% 44%
46%
White
77% 78%
78% 77%
77%
Free/
26% 26%
25% 24%
22%
Reduced
All
44% 44%
44% 42%
42%
Reading
2014 2015
2016 2017 2018
African 22%
21%
21% 21% 21%
American
American
21% 20%
21%
22% 23%
Indian
Hispanic
23% 25%
26% 26% 27%
Asian
41% 40%
45% 38%
44%
White
78% 77%
77% 78%
80%
Free/
23% 23%
23% 25%
25%
Reduced
All
42% 42%
43% 43%
45%
Science 2014
2015 2016
2017 2018
African 11%
15% 13% 11% 10%
American
American
14%
16%
13% 16%
13%
Indian
Hispanic
17% 18%
21%
19% 17%
Asian
31% 35%
42%
31% 34%
White
71% 75%
71%
70% 71%
Free/
14% 15%
17%
16% 15%
Reduced
All
33% 36%
35% 34%
34%
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