Updated Salaries at the Davis Center (Central Offices, Minneapolis Public Schools) >>>>> March 2022

Above $100,000

 

Superintendent of Schools                       

EDWARD J GRAFF                        

$230,000

 

Senior Academic Officer                           

AIMEE Y FEARING                        

$174,971

 

Senior Operating Officer                           

KAREN A DEVET             

$170,234

 

General Counsel                                                        

AMY M MOORE                   

$167,242

 

Senior Finance Officer                               

IBRAHIMA A DIOP                       

$167,242

 

Senior Information Officer                       

JUSTIN J HENNES                          

$161,666

 

Senior Human Resources Officer            

MEGAN Y SULLIVAN                    

$161,666

 

Officer Senior Account,

Research & Eqty Officer

ERIC A MOORE                             

$161,666

 

Senior Officer Comm.                                

Eng. & Ext. Relat

Blanche Evette Porter                 

$160,000

 

Associate Superintendent, PK-8              

RONALD V WAGNER                   

$157,763

 

Associate Superintendent,

Middle Schools

BRIAN J ZAMBRENO                    

$157,763

 

Associate Superintendent, PK-8              

ROCHELLE M COX                        

$157,763

 

Associate Superintendent,

High Schools

SHAWN R HARRIS-BERRY           

$157,763

 

Principal, Special Assignment                  

NILO P GUANZON                        

$150,498

 

Deputy Senior Academic Officer             

S ROLLINGER                                 

$146,813

 

Executive Director, Human Resources   

Candra Marisha Bennett            

$143,922

 

Executive Director, Cap Proj/ Const/Maint

 

CURTIS L HARTOG                                      

$143,192

 

Executive Director,                                                                 

Marketing & Commun.

JULIE S BROWN              

$142,100

 

Director,                                           

Off. of Black Male Achievement

MICHAEL V. WALKER                   

$140,577

 

Executive Director,

Early Child. Education                 

Stacey Lynette Joyner                 

$140,384

 

Executive Director,                                      

Engage. & Ext. Rel.

Tyrize Chanel Cox                         

$139,000

 

 

Principal, Special Assignment                  

JODY L DELAU                               

$137,145

 

Director, Finance                                        

Michael Brian Hull                       

$132,600

 

Director, Special Education Programs    

VIRGINIA LW NYHUS                   

$130,540

 

Director, Extended Learning                    

DAREN L JOHNSON                      

$130,540

 

Director, Budget Planning & Analysis     

TAMMY K FREDRICKSON            

$130,540

 

Director, Special Education Programs   

SARA M STACK                             

$130,540

 

Director, Compliance                                 

FRANCISCO J GONZALEZ             

$130,540

 

Director, Talent Management                 

KEENAN L SHELTON                     

$130,540

 

Executive Director,                                                                    

College Career Ready

JAMES M BIERMA                        

$127,436

 

Director, STEM/CTE

Director, Career & Technical Education

PAUL D KLYM                                

$127,356

 

Director, Early Childhood Education     

SARAH C LINDQUIST SWANSON

$127,356

 

Executive Director,                                    

K12 Academic Program

JENNIFER W ROSE                        

$126,874

 

Executive Director, EL & Global Ed         

MUHIDIN WARFA                        

$125,704

 

Employment Contract, Miscellaneous   

Brett Stringer                                

$124,798

 

Director, District Athletics                        

Antony Myron Fisher                  

$124,250

 

Executive Director,                                    

Community Education

Amy J Tanzer Hillenbrand          

$123,780

 

Assistant General Counsel                       

Lee Odion Atakpu                        

$121,219

 

Executive Director, REAA                          

SARAH EK HUNTER                      

$120,172

 

Director, HRIS & Analytics                        

SCOTT G WEBER            

$118,263

 

Director, Talent Acquisition Director,    

JAYDA M SALLIS             

$118,263

 

Director,                                                       

Student Retention and Recovery

COLLEEN M KAIBEL                       $118,263

 

Director, Nursing Services                        

AMBER R SPANIOL                       

$118,263

 

District Master Planner                             

DAVID H RICHARDS                     

$118,263

 

Director, Procurement                              

& Accounts Payable

NEVONIA L RAINWATER             

$118,263

 

Director, Total Compensation                 

PETER P RONZA             

$118,183

 

Director, Indian Education                       

Jennifer Rose Simon                    

$115,379

 

Director,                                                         

SpecEd Compliance & Monitoring

CYNTHIA J ATSATT                       

$115,379

 

Director, Compliance                                 

Kate Bothun Bechtle                   

$ 115,379

 

Manager, Teacher Development            

EMILY R OLSON              

$112,565

 

Data Scientist                                              

ERIC J VANDEN BERK                   

$112,565

 

Data Scientist                                              

MELODY S JACOBS-CASSUTO    

$112,565

 

Data Scientist                                              

CHRISTOPHER T MOORE            

$112,565

 

Employee Relations Associate, Senior   

Alicia Inez Miller            

$112,565

 

Executive Director,                                    

Spec. Educ. & Health

DEEQAIFRAH HUSSEIN                

$112,500

 

Executive Director,                                    

Equity & Integration

Cristin Nicole Craig                        

$112,138

 

Administrator,                                                                             

Board & Governmental Rel.

RYAN A STRACK             

$110,401

 

Manager, Psychological Services            

MATTHEW Y LAU                         

$109,819

 

Student Information Analyst, Lead        

JAMES E LISTON             

$109,819

 

Coordinator, Area Learning Centers      

MELINDA M STAPLEY                  

$109,819

 

Manager,                                                     

Community Education Programs

AMY A FREY                                  

$109,819

 

Director, Enrollment Management        

MARTHA C SWANSON                

$109,819

 

Director, ESL / Bilingual Programming  

KATHERINE C MCNULTY             

$109,819

 

Manager, Social Work                               

CATHERINE M DALNES                

$109,819

 

Manager, IT Field Support Manager      

MASON CAMPBELL                      

$109,819

 

Manager, Speech and Language Srvs     

JILL R RENTMEESTER DISHER     

$109,819

 

Risk Manager                                              

MICHAEL J COWELL                     

$109,819

 

Director, Office of Ombudsperson         

JENNY YANG                                 

$108,580

 

Director, Office of Ombudsperson         

MITCHELL I ROLDAN                    

$108,056

 

Manager,                                                     

Capital Planning & Construction

Jessica Lynn Pavelka                   

$107,140

 

Manager, IT Solution Center                   

BRADLEY W LUNDQUIST            

$107,140

 

Director, Contract Alternatives               

OPAL D EHALT                              

$107,140

 

Manager, Mental Health Supports         

JUDY A BROWN             

$107,140

 

SAP Programmer / Analyst                      

SYED YASEEN                                

$106,050

 

Assistant Director, Athletics                    

DAVID M WICKER                        

$104,527

 

Accountant, Senior                                    

JEFFREY E GRILLEY                       

$104,527

 

Financial Systems Administrator            

JAYARAMAN SUBRAMANIAM  

$104,527

 

Manager, Accounting & Finance             

KATE E MCKAY                              

$104,527

 

Manager,                                                     

IT Design and Training Services

Nicole Deverich               $104,527

 

Data Scientist, Senior                                

KATE L PARKINSON                     

$104,527

 

Manager,  

Grant Funding & Resource Dvlp                                           

KERRY A YORK MYLES                 

$101,977

 

Evaluation Specialist, Senior                    

ANN L MAVIS                                

$101,977

 

Manager, Payroll                                        

STACY SWAIN                               

$101,977

 

Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure       

JASON L WORWA                         

$101,977

 

Data Scientist                                

Kathleen Nielsen Koehler Diamond       

$101,977

 

Project Manager,                                       

Planning & Construction

JEFFREY M HELSTROM                

$101,977

 

 

$90,000-$100,000

 

Teacher,                                                       

Social Worker Spec Asgn (SWOSA)

BRADEN R CANFIELD                   

$93,153

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

LORETTA E COLLINS                     

$93,153

 

Financial Analyst, Senior                          

Thomas Earl Roethke                  

$92,387

 

Data Scientist                                

Morrigan Gorliante Meglindir Hughes   

$92,387

 

Financial Systems Analyst, Senior          

JOSHUA P KOESTERS                   

$92,387

 

Systems & Network Engineer, Senior    

KYLE P BOHM                                

$92,387

 

Data Scientist                                              

Michael John Herriges                

$92,387

 

Teacher, Social Worker                             

GEORGETTA HAWKINS               

$92,021

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

MARIE P LOUISELLE                     

$92,021

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

LIZA A TINKHAM            

$92,021

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

MARIUM K TOURE'                      

$92,021

 

Teacher, DPF- School Improvement       

Kelly Ann Barrick                          

$92,021

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

CORINA PASTRANA                     

$90,889

 

Teacher, Counselor Spec Asgn (COSA)   

DEBORAH F NELSON                   

$90,889

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

Jennifer Lauren Crouch               

$90,889

 

Teacher, TOSA Tech Integration             

Frederick Melvin Ballew             

$90,889

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

JENNIFER A HANZAK                   

$90,889

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

REBECCA D RUDDLE                    

$90,889

 

Supervisor, Accountant                            

LINH T PHAN                                 

$90,134

 

Accountant, Senior                                    

Andrew D Rance            

$90,134

 

Coordinator, Educational Equity             

Roy Kawai                                      

$90,134

 

Resolution & Compliance Associate       

Tiara Renee Brown                      

$90,134

 

Data Scientist                               

Mireya Carmen-Martinez Smith             

$90,134

 

Evaluation Specialist, Senior                    

LEONA THAO                                

$90,134

 

 

$80,000-$90,000

 

Teacher, Counselor                      

WANDA S HOLTHAUS-MONROE             

$89,757

 

Teacher, TOSA General Teacher             

Sara Walker Etzel                         

$89,757

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

KAREN L MAVERICK                     

$89,757

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

JULIE A TANGEMAN                    

$89,757

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

CHRISTINA S. RAMSEY                

$89,757

 

Teacher, TOSA Literacy Specialist           

Kay Clausen                                   

$89,757

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

$TEYENT GERMA                          

$89,757

 

Teacher, TOSA General Teacher             

PAULA J KILIAN              

$88,626

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

LAURA M BYARD                          

$88,626

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

COLLEEN K BERGH                       

$88,626

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

ABBIE FINGER                               

$88,626

 

Executive Assistant to Superintendent

Ashley R Hightower                     

$87,936

 

Program Specialist,                                      

Community Education

ROBERT LINDBERG                      

$87,936

 

Web Programmer, Senior                         

A BDIKADIR E ABDI                      

$87,936

 

Program Manager, External Relations   

MICHELLE S KELLOGG                  

$87,936

 

Budget Analyst                                           

LAN B NGUYEN                             

$87,936

 

Administrator,                                              

Mpls Residency Program

ANTONIO G CARMONA-ELIAS   

$87,936

 

Accountant, Senior                                    

Jessica Marie Moryn                   

$87,936

 

Director, Engagement                               

Amanda Rachel Dionne              

$87,936

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

LAURIE L MCGUIGAN                  

$87,494

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

KELLY N MEADE             

$87,494

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

MELISSA A BURNS                       

$86,361

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

DEBORAH A MOEN                      

$86,361

 

Teacher, Special Education                      

JOYA C MUSA                               

$86,361

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

RANDALL J NAUGHTON              

$86,361

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

YOLONDA Y ROGERS                   

$86,361

 

Assessment Consultant                             

Jane M Zeleznikar                        

$85,790

 

Web Programmer, Senior                         

LIBAN A AHMED            

$85.790

 

IT Solutions Specialist                               

RYAN L MOE                                 

$85,790

 

Office Manager                                           

DONNA THOTLAND                     

$85,790

 

Evaluation Specialist                                 

SOPHIE A PILHOFER                     

$85,790

 

Coordinator, Educational Equity             

Lauren Woodson                          

$85,790

 

Coordinator, Educational Equity             

CRISTINA M BENZ                        

$85,790

 

Accountant, Senior                                    

Heidi Terese Savatdy                  

$85,790

 

Evaluation Specialist                                 

Choua Her                                     

$85,790

 

Evaluation Specialist                                 

Selamawit Tilahun                       

$85,790

 

Teacher,                                                         

School Nurse Spec Asgn (SNOSA)

JULIE A YOUNG-BURNS              

$85,230

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

CHRISTOPHER J WERNIMONT   

$85,230

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

Melanie Dawn Keillor                 

$85,230

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

ERIC R REICHOW            

$85,230

 

Teacher,                                                         

TOSA Tech Integration Specialist

ELIZABETH A HALBACH               

$85,230

 

Teacher, Social Worker Spec Asgn          

JOSHUA A LANG            

$85,230

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

ANNE S SILVERMAN                    

$85,230

 

Teacher, School Nurse Teacher               

Candice Ann Bruhjell                   

$85,230

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

JOELLEN KRISTAL           

$84,098

 

Teacher, TOSA General                             

CHRISTEN M LISH                         

$84,098

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

ELIZABETH BORTKE                     

$84,098

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

KATHLEEN D HEALY                     

$84,098

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

ELIZABETH R ZENO                       

$84,098

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

SUE VANG                                      

$84,098

 

Teacher, TOSA General                             

LORI L LEDOUX                             

$84,098

 

Teacher, TOSA Administrative                

Erik John Hensel            

$84,098

 

Teacher, Online Learning                          

JONI L KUENG                               

$84,098

 

Information Systems Analyst                  

MONICA A SHOCKENCY              

$83,741

 

Server Engineer                                          

AARON J LINDSLEY                      

$83,741

 

Server Engineer                                          

FRANK C MARTIN                         

$83,741

 

Server Engineer                                          

RAYNAL SIMMONS                      

$83,741

 

Program Specialist,                                    

MARY A SCHOENBERGER           

$83,698

 

Community Education Program              

LATDAVANH VONGPHACHANH

$83,698

 

Benefits Coordinator                                   

Administrator, Web Systems                   

MAUNGHI T. PEARSON               

$83,698

 

Program Specialist,                                      

Community Education

Ariel S Gittens                               

$83,698

 

Evaluation Specialist                                 

Jessie Ann Welton                       

$83,698

 

Evaluation Specialist                                  

Julie Winslow Goldsmith            

$83,698

 

Evaluation Specialist                                 

James Porter Gleckner                

$83,698

 

Project Manager,                                         

Planning & Construction

Kanjana Ashley Foster                

$83,698

 

Systems Administrator,

Human Resources

Sue Scheibner Mansfeldt           

$83,698

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

JULIANNE D BAZYK                      

$82,966

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

MARIAM A ADAM                       

$82,966

 

Teacher, Special Education Teacher       

CHRISTOPHER J CALIGUIRI         

$82,966

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

JULIE M LUSENI              

$82,966

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

ERIN E CLARKE                              

$82,966

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

MATTHEW C MYROLD                

$82,966

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

ANNE M LOCH                              

$82,966

 

Teacher, Speech Language Clinician       

CARLETTA J ROBERTSON            

$82,819

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

NOLAN R MURPHY                      

$81,834

 

Teacher, Counselor                                    

SHAUNA M STIPKOVITS              

$81,834

 

Teacher, Counselor                                    

Arnise Tanell Roberson                             

$81,834

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

ELIZABETH A THERKILDSEN        

$81,834

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

Melissa A Damon                         

$81,834

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

WILLIAM PERKISS                        

$81,834

 

Teacher, Special Education                      

TODD H CASELL              

$81,834

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

NATALIE L TOURTELOTTE           

$81,834

 

Web Programmer, Senior                         

ABUBEKER A AHMED                  

$81,657

 

Grant Analyst                                              

HARRY E MALONE-POVOLNY    

$81,657

 

Database Administrator                           

KHANG BUI                                    

$81,657

 

Human Resources Consultant                 

LORI G OLSEN                               

$81,657

 

Coordinator, Educational Equity             

Dena J Luna                                   

$81,657

 

Evaluation Specialist                                 

Fadumo Mohamed Osman        

$81,657

 

Program Specialist,

Community Education

ELIZABETH A HEATHERSHAW-GAY         

$81,657

 

Project Manager                                         

ELISA M R IHA                               

$81,657

 

Manager, Talent Acquisition                   

Natasha Rambacchus                  

$81,657

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

Megan Mullane Trenda              

$80,702

 

Teacher, TOSA, MSTR Mentor                 

JENNIFER A SUNSHINE                

$80,702

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

Molly Dunn Siebert                     

$80,702

 

Teacher, TOSA                                             

Literacy Specialist 

Molly Cowles Schned                  

$80,702

 

 

$70,000-$80,000

 

Server Engineer                                          

ANDREW D WORKMAN              

$79,726

 

Accountant                                                  

Joseph Jay Olson                          

$79,666

 

Program Specialist,                                      

Community Education

Rashawn DeVontez Williams    

$79,666

 

Manager, GEAR UP                                    

Jeremiah Paul Harris                   

$79,666

 

Evaluation Specialist                                 

Madeline Wei Langan Geitz       

$79,666

 

Coordinator, Employee Wellness           

LINDSAY M BILLER                       

$79,666

 

Engagement,                                                 

Education & Outreach Spec.

YEE YANG                                      

$79,666

 

Marketing &                                                  

Communications Spec, Senior

Joanna Louise Kohler                  

$79,666

 

Budget Analyst                                           

MICHAEL D OFFSTEIN                  

$79,666

 

Program Specialist,                                      

Community Education

DeSean A Smedley                      

$79,666

 

Student Information Analyst                   

IBRAHIM MOHAMUD                 

$79,666

 

Employee Relations Associate                 

MALCOLM A. WELLS                   

$79,666

 

Database Administrator                           

Luke Bauer Peterson                   

$79,666

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

DARCY RENEE STEINBERG          

$79,570

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

A Z JACOBSON-ANDERSON        

$79,570

 

Teacher, TOSA General                             

TARA C FINNE                               

$79,570

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

MOLLY E VASICH            

$79,570

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

Kristin Ann Bergsagel Bauck      

$79,570

 

Teacher, Counselor                                    

MICHELL K ABER            

$78,745

 

Teacher, Special Education                      

CONNIE M COSKRAN                   

$78,438

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

SARAH R GODFREY                      

$78,438

 

Teacher, TOSA General                             

GABRIEL A PASS             

$78,438

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

JENNIFER J. WHITCOMB             

$78,438

 

Systems Engineer                                       

GALIENA O BOYAJIAN                 

$77,771

 

Program Specialist,                                      

Community Education

ANDREW P GRAMM                    

$77,722

 

Compensation Consultant                        

JENNIFER K STEDJE                      

$77,722

 

Employee Relations Analyst                    

ALLEN D CAVELL             

$77,722

 

Technology Applications Instructor       

DAVID A GORKE             

$77,722

 

Coordinator, Media Relations                 

Crystina Estrella Lugo-Beach     

$77,722

 

Contract Administrator                             

Girish Bhatnagar            

$77,722

 

Accountant

WHITNEY M CLEMENS

$77,722

 

IT Strategy & Process Analyst                  

ABBY M WOLF                              

$77,722

 

Financial Systems Analyst                        

ALI M ARTAN                                

$77,722

 

Marketing &                                                  

Communications Spec, Senior

NANDI SOLORZANO O'BRIEN     $77,722

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

ANN M RODEL                              

$77,306

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

KATHERINE N. HANSEN              

$77,306

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

Anjanette M Parisien                  

$77,306

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

Deqa Muhidin                               

$77,306

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

Lucille Amis Rosario                    

$77,306

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator T  

ANDREA DuFault                          

$76,175

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

KARA M PATTERSON                   

$76,175

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

BRANDY S SIDDIQUI                    

$76,175

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

ASHLEY A KROHN                         

$76,175

 

Teacher, TOSA PAR Mentor                     

MATTHEW J PELLOWSKI             

$76,175

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

MEGHAN C GASDICK                   

$76,175

 

Executive Assistant                                    

JENNIFER L LINDQUIST               

$75,858

 

Systems Engineer                                       

ADAM D DOWELL                        

$75,858

 

Systems Engineer                                       

Joseph Patrick Kosowski            

$75,858

 

Office Manager Office Manager             

TAMALA WASHINGTON-GREEN

$75,827

 

Human Resources Consultant                 

SHIRA L ROWLAND                      

$75,827

 

Coordinator,                                                  

Professional Development

DEBRA L ANDERSON                   

$75,827

 

Coordinator,                                                  

Professional Development

ROWAN L MCDEID                       

$75,827

 

Engagement,                                               

Education & Outreach Spec.

EDGAR F ALFONZO                      

$75,827

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

CHRISTINE KENNEDY                   

$75,042

 

Teacher, Counselor                                    

MELISSA A TERRY                         

$75,042

 

Teacher, Counselor Spec Asgn (COSA)   

TRACY M BURKE            

$75,042

 

Teacher, TOSA Literacy Specialist           

Hilary S Laing                                

$75,042

 

Teacher, TOSA                                            

Wendy L Wolfe Leier                   

$75,042

 

Teacher, TOSA General

Technology Integrationist

Wendy L Wolfe Leier

75042

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

VENUS L BURNEY                         

$75,042  

 

 

IT Service Desk Support Technician        

Heloise Durant                             

$74,048

 

Paralegal                                                      

Burnette B Smith                         

$74,048

 

Technology Applications Instructor        

Clayton John Benjamin               

$73,978

 

Systems / Network Engineer                   

SHAUN M MINOR                        

$73,978

 

Technology Applications Instructor       

Jacob Law                                      

$73,978

 

Engagement,                                               

Education & Outreach Spec.

CHARISMA C SMITH                    

$73,978

 

Program Coordinator                                

MAI HOUA YANG                         

$73,978

 

Project Coordinator, Operations             

Sounitda Saymongkhon             

$73,978

 

Coordinator, Risk Management              

Rachel Lee Wikenheiser             

$73,978

 

Project Manager                                         

Samira Mohamed Hirsi               

$73,978

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

JAMES R DAGGETT        

$73,910

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

FAIZA J BHARMAL                        

$72,779

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

GINA M Forman             

$72,779

 

Licensed Alcohol & Drug Counselor       

Joshua Eric Macomber                

$72,218

 

Systems / Network Engineer                   

SHAYLIN L WILLAERT                   

$72,173

 

Engagement, Education                              

& Outreach Specialist      

AHMED M KEYNAN                     

$72,173

 

Project Coordinator, Executive Officer  

Sharifa E Urey                               

$72,173

 

Human Resources Project Coordinator

Michelle Kim Staack                    

$72,173

 

Project Manager                                         

KATEE J BROWN            

$72,173

 

Marketing &

Communications Spec, Senior

Sarah Marie Ramler-Olson         $72,173

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

ROSS K PORTER              

$71,646

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

KELLY A MCQUILLAN                   

$71,646

 

Teacher, Special Education                      

Allison Cacich Knigge                  

$71,646

 

Teacher, Counselor                                    

KIMBERLY M MANNEL                

$71,646

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

Brenda Marie Line                      

$71,646

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

NIKKIA R HINES              

$71,646

 

Teacher, Speech Language Clinician       

SUZANNE KAYE NGUYEN            

$70,901

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

ANTHONY B GREGORY                

$70,515

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

EMILY G BOUVIER                        

$70,515

 

Teacher, Counselor Spec Asgn (COSA)   

Salado A Hasan              

$70,515

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

JEWELL L REICHENBERGER         

$70,515

 

IT Service Desk Support Technician        

EDMUND L CICHOCKI                  

$70,450

 

Information Systems Analyst                  

Kevin Alan Lochner                      

$70,450

 

Executive Assistant                                    

JEANNE M LACY             

$70,450

 

Coordinator, Leaves of Absence             

LYNSEY A SAHLI                           

$70,413

 

Human Resources Consultant                 

LaSheena M Borchardt               

$70,413

 

Translator, Senior Translator                  

THOMAS TOUA LEE                     

$70,413

 

Technology Applications Instructor       

Susann Schecker            

$70,413

 

Technology Applications Instructor       

Tara Lynn Iannarelli                     

$70,413

 

Buyer, Senior                                               

Jibril Maxamed Osman               

$70,413

 

Buyer, Senior                                               

Aldo Rubio Lopez                         

$70,413

 

Project Coordinator, Operations             

Mattie Laperle                              

$70,413

 

Systems Administrator,                              

Human Resources

VILAVANH VILLAGOMEZ            

$70,413

 

Project Coordinator                                   

DANIEL BRIGGS              

$70,413

 

Office Manager                                           

AMANDA M McCASTLE              

$70,413

 

Marketing & Andrea                                    

Communications Spec, Senior 

Leigh Allis                                      

$70,413

 

Engagement,                                                 

Education & Outreach Spec.   

Penny Elaine Jones                      

$70,413

 

Human Resources Consultant                 

Ashley Evelyn Guertin                 

$70,413

 

 

$60,000-$70,000

 

Teacher, Counselor                      

TAMMI S HARMON                     

$69,995

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

NORA A SCHULL             

$69,382

 

Teacher, TOSA General                             

Kayla June Kelsey                         

$69,382

 

Teacher, English Teacher                          

JO L ABRAHAM              

$69,382

 

Supervisor,                                                  

JESSICA M PORATH                     

$69,218

 

Special Education Supervisor

IT Service Desk Support Technician        

Colleen Ann Koll            

$68,744

 

Information Systems Analyst                  

Yasir Imad Othman                     

$68,744

 

Project Coordinator, Spec. Educ.            

MARY JO NARUM                        

$68,695

 

Engagement, Education &                          

Outreach Spec. Engagement

SHANTEL S SHORTER                   

$68,695

 

Recruitment Coordinator                         

Angela Wilhight             

$68,695

 

Supervisor, Accounts Payable                 

BABITA R BINDA            

$68,695

 

Coordinator,                                                

Jennifer Kristine Anderson        

$68,695

 

Professional Development

Project Manager                                         

Yassin Mohamud Issa                 

$68,695

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

AARON E GERHARDT                  

$68,250

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

Erica Jean Ahlgren                       

$68,250

 

Teacher, Ethnic Studies/Humanities      

Brandon Royce-Diop                   

$68,250

 

Project Coordinator                                   

TINA M O'SHAUGHNESSY          

$67,702

 

Teacher, School Nurse                              

CAROL A. BRICK             

$67,119

 

Benefits Analyst                                         

AMY C EDMUNDS                        

$67,059

 

IT Service Desk Support Technician        

OKANG M NESBITT                      

$67,059

 

IT Service Desk Support Technician        

ANGEL N KHATH            

$67,059

 

Technology Applications Instructor       

AN T NGUYEN                               

$67,019

 

 

Engagement, Education                            

& Outreach Spec. 

LILIAN F SAND                               

$67,019

 

Buyer                                                            

YAHAIRA CRUZ                             

$67,019

 

Engagement, Education                              

& Outreach Spec.

CECELIA BENIMON                       

$67,019

 

Project Coordinator, Operations             

Sharmarke Nur Mohamud         

$67,019

 

Coordinator, Lease Administration          

& Ops Coordinator 

Heather C Nelson                         

$67,019

 

Program Coordinator,                                 

Student Engagement

QIANA D SORRELL                        

$67,019

 

Student Enrollment                                   

NAGASHIA JACKSON                   

$66,435

 

Student Enrollment                                     

& Retention Spec

NORA R SEIWERT                         

$66,435

 

Teacher, Physical Therapist                     

Taylor A Reff                                 

$65,987

 

Human Resources Consultant                 

Natalie Nicole Branch                 

$65,385

 

Human Resources Consultant                 

FATIMA G PRAXEDIS GARCIA    

$65,385

 

Program Coordinator,                               

JANAE B STREUFERT                    

$65,385

 

Student Engagement

Project Coordinator,                                    

Extended Learning

CHRISTINE R JENNINGS               

$65,385

 

Materials Coordinator                               

Mickey D Beaty              

$65,385

 

Program Coordinator,                               

Student Engagement

JENNY L DELANEY                        

$65,385

 

Teacher, Counselor                                    

LEANA L THORNTON                   

$64,856

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

Jennifer Ann Weber                    

$64,856

 

Teacher, Counselor Spec Asgn (COSA)   

MENG-CHU HUANG                     

$64,856

 

Teacher, Music Therapist                         

Sarah Perrault                              

$64,856

 

Account Specialist                                      

KELLY BAILEY                                

$64,210

 

Account Specialist                                      

PATTI PETERSON                          

$64,210

 

Account Specialist                                      

VICKI J SMITH                               

$64,210

 

Payroll Specialist                                        

Amy Marie Kurvers                     

$63,814

 

Payroll Analyst                                            

STEPHANIE J ZOUCHA                 

$63,814

 

IT Service Desk Support Technician        

Mohamed Yusuf Mohamed       

$63,814

 

Recruitment Coordinator                         

CIERRA C. BURNAUGH                

$63,790

 

Cultural Facilitator                                     

PAULINA JACOBSSON                 

$63,790

 

Program Coordinator,                                 

Student Engagement

RICHARD N MAGEMBE               

$63,790

 

Human Resources Consultant                 

Kaochi Pha                                     

$63,790

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

Sharita Monique Benson            

$63,723

 

Teacher, Counselor                                    

Kayden Jo Schumacher               

$62,591

 

Human Resources

Information Analyst                                  

Shaya Annice Smith                     

$62,296

 

Project Coordinator, Finance                   

Asha Elizabeth Langton              

$62,234

 

Human Resources Consultant                 

ANITA CLARE                                 

$62,234

 

Program Coordinator,                               

Student Engagement

MARQUES A. WALKER                

$62,234

 

Cultural Facilitator                                     

Muhammad Tayyeb Tayyeb      

$62,234

 

Account Specialist                                      

HELEN L POMMIER                      

$61,714

 

Account Specialist                                      

REBECCA BRANCH                       

$61,714

 

Account Specialist                                      

NADINE M Brenny                       

$61,714

 

School Success Program Assistant          

JOHANNA L MILLER                     

$61,630

 

Human Resources                                        

Information Analyst

Nathaniel A Wells                        

$60,819

 

Benefits Analyst                                         

ANGELA M WEBER                       

$60,819

 

Archivist                                                       

LARA J ULLMAN             

$60,819

 

Buyer                                                            

Liban Mohamed Jama                

$60,717

 

Cultural Facilitator                                     

Abdi Ogle                                       

$60,717

 

Program Coordinator,                               

Isaya Kibira                                    

$60,717

 

Student Engagement

Teacher, TOSA Literacy Specialist           

Quentina Elaine Dunbar             

$60,328

 

Teacher, Occupational Therapist            

Laura Kathryn Weber                  

$60,328

 

Teacher, Counselor Spec Asgn (COSA)   

JODI L BURKE                                

$60,034

 

 

$50,000-$60,000

 

Cultural Facilitator Cultural Facilitator

KASSIM A OSMAN

$59,680

 

Program Coordinator,                               

Shamaria Yondricka Jordan

$59,236

 

Student Engagement

Information Assistant                               

LACIE K SHOCKENCY                    

$57,283

 

Teacher, Social Worker                             

Jenne Lee Wiedemeier               

$56,931

 

Teacher, Special Education                      

Kelly Marie Morris Metzler        

$56,931

 

Teacher, Special Education                      

Taylor Jae VanderHeiden           

$56,931

 

Accounts Payable Specialist                     

Loann Leanna Nguyen-Ingalsbe

$56,701

 

Student Enrollment & Retention Spec.

MARICELA Lindsey                       

$56,014

 

Project Manager                                         

Kia Yang                                         

$55,483

 

Account Specialist                                      

CHI TU LY                                       

$55,099

 

Accounts Payable Specialist                     

BHARTI BHATNAGAR                  

$55,099

 

Payroll Specialist                                        

Salat Suleman Tuke                     

$55,037

 

Human Resources                                        

Information Analyst

Garrett Michael Kadrie               

$55,037

 

Teacher, Counselor                                    

Parinita Shinde Mulari                

$54,668

 

Coordinator,

Youth & Adult Programs            

EARL S BRANCH             

$54,202

 

Translator                                                    

MIRIAM L BELLIDO                      

$53,997

 

Human Resources Specialist                    

Sharon S Horton            

$53,706

 

Account Specialist                                      

ANNE M RICHARDSON                

$53,560

 

Teacher, Counselor Spec Asgn (COSA)   

JACK S MINER                               

$53,536

 

Intake Specialist Intake Specialist

JENNIFER L GRAFF                                      

$53,518

 

Office Specialist Office Specialist

DIANE L THORPE

$53,498

 

Teacher, Emeritus                                      

Pamela Rae Lindberg                  

$52,896

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

ANGIE L POWELL                          

$52,496

 

Teacher, American Indian Language      

Shiela Marie Zephier                   

$52,404

 

Account Specialist                                      

ROSA A RIVERA              

$52,042

 

Account Specialist                                      

NANCY L GOODMAN                   

$52,042

 

Account Specialist                                      

LaSonderia LaShey Rogers         

$52,042

 

Account Specialist                                      

DIANA L LEASKAS                         

$52,042

 

Graphic Artist                                              

Anna Maureen Verstraete         

$51,079

 

Student Information Specialist               

LISA M SIEBOLD             

$50,981

 

 

$40,000-$50,000

 

Information Assistant                               

TINA J MCCAMBRIDGE               

$49,733

 

Student Information Specialist               

MARLA ZAPPA                              

$49,525

 

Teacher, Emeritus                                      

Jill M Kelly                                     

$49,402.19231

 

Translator                                                    

AWEYS A HASSAN                        

$49,088

 

Licensed Practical Nurse                           

STACEY A HULSEY                        

$48,646.5

 

School Success Program Assistant          

MICHELLE LYNN RUKAVINA       

$48,592.88462

 

Coordinator, Catering &                             

Retail Food Serv Coordinator 

GENNA K DEPREY                         

$48,547

 

Teacher, TOSA General                             

Crystal L Polski                              

$48,421

 

Human Resources Specialist                    

Martha A Smith             

$47,466

 

School Success Program Assistant          

WANDA Y FELDER                        

$47,166.55769

 

Coordinator, Catering &                           

Retail Food Serv Coordinator 

LEONARD T GORECKI                  

$47,112

 

School Success Program Assistant

Matthew John LaFave                 

$46,745

                               

Teacher, World Languages (Ojibwe)      

Matthew John LaFave                 

$46,745

 

Teacher, School Nurse                              

Ann Linda Dohrmann                  

$46,384

 

Teacher, TOSA General                             

PATRICIA A DEJARLAIS                

$46,011

 

School Success Program Assistant          

LU YANG                                        

$45854.55769

 

School Success Program Assistant          

BRIDIE B MUSSER                        

$45,854.55769

 

School Success Program Assistant          

LINDSAY M. ANDERSON             

$45,561.92308

 

Office Specialist                                          

Jennifer R Emmes                        

$45,448

 

Account Specialist                                      

MEE VANG                                     

$45,361

 

Materials Handler                                      

Michael Joseph Souza                 

$45,219

 

HR Front Desk Representative                

Elizabeth Gail Roberts                 

$44,782

 

School Success Program Assistant          

Mahdi Farah Egal                          $44,477.11538

 

Office Specialist, Medical                         

LAURA B PEABODY                      

$43,576

 

Teacher, TOSA General                             

JESSICA R. H. KROHN                   

$43,181

 

School Success Program Assistant          

ASHLEY J KALSCHEUR                  

$43,098.88462

 

School Success Program Assistant          

PATRICK J ENGRAV                      

$43,098.88462

 

School Success Program Assistant          

David Alan Stier             

$43,098.88462

 

School Success Program Assistant          

TIMOTHY D LUCKETT                  

$43,098.88462

 

School Success Program Assistant          

Alexis Abigail Dauenhauer         

$43,098.88462

 

School Success Program Assistant          

Alexander Samuel Tsadwa         

$43,098.88462

 

School Success Program Assistant          

HEIDI L OLSON                              

$43,098.88462

 

School Success Program Assistant          

Leo Phillip Baker            

$43,098.88462

 

School Success Program Assistant          

Mia McLaughlin Austin               

$43,098.88462

 

Office Specialist, Due Process                  

JACQUELINE M KJONO               

$42,371.82692

 

Teacher, School Nurse                        

Mary Catherine Summer PaVon             

$41,629

 

Associate Educator                                    

PA H YANG                                    

$41,048.88462

 

Associate Educator                                    

AIDA L AZZAZI                               

$41,048.88462

 

Associate Educator                                    

KATHERINE C VILLASENOR         

$41,048.88462

 

Associate Educator                                    

Carlos Manuel Anguita               

$41,048.88462

 

Associate Educator                                    

FANNY NEWTON                          

$41,048.88462

 

Licensed Practical Nurse                           

Tashiana Marie Caldwell            

$40,575.01923

 

$30,000-$40,000

 

Intake Specialist                                         

Muna Ahmed Elmi                       

$39,998

 

Office Specialist, Senior                            

MARY E JACKSON                        

$39,998

 

Licensed Practical Nurse                

Ebrena Hilda-Vanese Dempster              

$39,437.26923

 

Teacher, Special Education                      

Kathleen Mary Saporito             

$39,219

 

Catering and Retail Cook                          

BRADY D HILLS                             

$38,854

 

Teacher, TOSA Instructional Specialist  

NANCY L HELLANDER PUNG      

$38,653

 

School Success Program Assistant          

LISA M LAMBERT                         

$38,519

 

Associate Educator                                    

TANIA GARCIA-ESTRADA            

$38,327.11538

 

Teacher, Emeritus                                      

Jennifer Lynn Schneider             

$38,001.46154

 

Intake Specialist                                         

Toni E McCray                               

$37,752

 

Office Assistant                                          

Tiara Alonsa Shockency              

$36,982

 

Associate Educator                                    

ISMAHAN MOHAMED                

$36,965.44231

 

Associate Educator                                    

CHRISTINE P WILSON                  

$36,965.44231

 

Associate Educator                                    

RAHMA S. AHMED                       

$36,965.44231

 

Information Assistant                               

JEAN DUFRESNE-PERZEL             

$36,866

 

Office Specialist                                          

Curshonda Turee Allen               

$36,837

 

Materials Handler                                      

JESSICA L BEASLEY                       

$35,963

 

Teacher, TOSA Math Specialist               

STEVEN J PASTER                         

$35,823

 

Office Specialist                                          

Tari L Karbula                                

$35,730

 

Office Specialist, Due Process                  

DEBORAH S PIERCE                      

$35,603.65385

 

Educational Sign Language Interpreter

William Allen Giese                     

$35,081.01923

 

Custodian                                                     

SYLVESTER JONES JR                   

$34,403

 

Associate Educator                                    

SAMSAM O MOHAMED             

$33,899.11538

 

Associate Educator                                    

AMAL A ADAM                             

$33,899.11538

 

Associate Educator                                    

Lilian Paulina Alarcon Brito       

$33,899.11538

 

Associate Educator                                    

Yasmin Mohamed Abdi             

$33,899.11538

 

Associate Educator                                    

GENETI G KUMSA                         

$33,865.21154

 

Associate Educator                                    

BIZUWORK ZEWDE-BALLA         

$33,865.21154

 

Custodian                                                     

Evan T Krieg                                  

$33,758

 

Associate Educator                                    

Skye Amber Alpert                      

$32,520.88462

 

Teacher, TOSA General                             

Sheree Broge                                

$31,296

 

Educational Sign Language Interpreter  

Suzanne Marie Amundsen         

$30,839.88462

 

Educational Sign Language Interpreter

Brittany Lorayne Hunt                

$30839.88462

 

Educational Sign Language Interpreter

Nicole Elizabeth Peters               

$30,096.36538

 

 

$20,000-$30,000

 

Teacher, Emeritus                                      

Suzanne J Greenberg                  

$29,641.46154

 

Teacher, Emeritus                                      

Amelia Greenwald Furman        

$29,641.46154

 

Catering and Retail Cook                          

SEAN P HERMAN                          

$28,864

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

JESSICA M FRANKLIN                  

$26,768

 

School Success Program Assistant          

NIETA J. JACKSON                        

$25,731.44231

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

KATHRYN J KNUTSON                 

$25,569

 

Teacher, School Nurse                              

Sydney Jean Pederson                

$23,226

 

Office Specialist                                          

TRACY J MCCOY             

$22,211.82692

 

Teacher, Emeritus                                      

DIANE K SCHMITZ                        

$21,926.73077

 

Office Specialist, Due Process                  

Tabitha Joyce Leske                     

$20,565

 

Office Specialist, Due Process                  

LESLIE PAYTON BOYD                  

$20,565

 

Associate Educator                                    

QUANG P LUU                              

$20,524.44231

 

Associate Educator                                    

LISA M TAGLIA                              

$20,524.44231

 

Retail Food Services Assistant                 

TIFFANY M JASPER                      

$19,003.5

 

Teacher, Special Education                      

AMY M MARQUEZ                       

$18,857

 

Teacher, Music Therapist                         

Samantha Taylor Pavett             

$18,245

 

Office Assistant                                          

BARBARA WILLIAMS                   

$16,946.82692

 

Teacher, Emeritus                                      

LISA A GERRING             

$15,201.46154

 

Office Specialist, Due Process                  

Jenan Mehri Jacobson                

$14,157

 

Teacher, School Nurse                              

Heidi Jo Streed                             

$13,876.0

 

Teacher, Ethnic Studies/Humanities      

TATE L WESTON             

$13,101.0

 

Teacher, Emeritus                                      

LEAH T STRICKLAND                    

$10,640.73077

 

 

Below $10,000

 

Associate Educator                                    

Kathryn R Waller                            

$8130.615385

 

Teacher, Emeritus                                      

JEAN A DUDLEY                

$8,054.538462

 

Teacher, District Program Facilitator     

ANGELIA C MCCRACKEN             

$6,938.0

 

Intervener

RILEY W KVAM                             

$6,047.5

Article #27 >>>>> Conclusion to a Series >>>>> Origin and Consequences of the Wretched System of Public Education Throughout the United States

The Current Teachers Strike is Playing Out as Theater of the Absurd---   With Catastrophic Consequences for Students Who Will Continue to Sustain Academic Abuse

A theater of the absurd is playing out at present in the form of the strike waged by members of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and Education Support Professionals (ESP) at the Minneapolis Public Schools.

Demands for psychological support and counseling staff, smaller class sizes, and increased remuneration for teachers and teacher’s aides have nothing to do with the key vexations of the Minneapolis Public Schools, which are knowledge-deficient curriculum as actually implemented in the classroom and poor teaching quality at the median.

This is a district that between autumn 2020 and autumn 2021 lost 2,909 students (declining from 31,598 to 28,689), a district that for many years has featured academic proficiency rates for African American, American Indian, and Hispanic students below 25 percent, a district in which those rates for all students have been essentially flat, falling between 40 and 45 percent for both reading and mathematics during academic years ending in 2014 through 2021.

Students at the preK-5 level master no rigorous, systematically imparted knowledge sets pertinent to natural science, history, government, geography, quality literature, or the fine arts. Middle school features more courses in those areas but those courses are knowledge-deficient.  At the high school level, only Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses have the potential for academic substance but are often taught by teachers who do not possess the requisite knowledge base.

Not a single administrator and very few teachers are positioned to articulate or implement changes that would improve the knowledge-deficient, skill-deplete educational program at the Minneapolis Public Schools.  Although they are on opposite sides of contractual issues pertinent to the current strike, key academic decision-makers at the Davis Center (central administration) and principals and teachers at school sites have all been trained in abominable departments, schools, and colleges of education. 

Academic decision-makers and teachers have all matriculated in classrooms presided over by education professors who oppose established knowledge and skill sets in favor of ad hoc curriculum formulated according to teacher and student whim at any given moment.  Both administrators and teachers have moved through the step and lane system toward higher remuneration by acquiring graduate degrees in such education programs, rather than in key subject areas:  There are very few scholarly academicians operating either in the Davis Center or at school sites.

The key changes needed to implement an academically substantive program in the Minneapolis Public Schools rarely gain a place in the public discourse.  Those changes pertain to the design of knowledge-intensive, skill-replete curriculum and to the training of teachers capable of imparting such curriculum.  State standards are widely disregarded, so that what actually matters is that objective subject area information pertinent to the key academic disciplines, informed by college and university scholarship, is actually imparted to the students of the district;  and that teachers are retrained for capability to impart logically sequenced knowledge and skill sets throughout the preK-12 years.

Median teacher pay at the Minneapolis Public Schools is $71,500;  Educational Support Staff (ESP) typically receive between $15.45 and $26.00.  Median per capita annual income in Minnesota is $37,625, median annual household income is $71,306, and the median hourly wage is $30.07.  Properly retrained ESP staff should be considered candidates for an hourly wage in accord with that latter figure, but in the absence of such retraining the current wage range is reasonable.  As for teachers, given the abysmal academic performance of the district, the current salary far above median per capita and very close to median household income is actually more than the typical teacher deserves.

If MFT leaders and rank and file members were to agree to retraining, so that teachers become bearers and conveyors of knowledge, then teachers thus professionalized would be well-placed to argue for much higher remuneration;  imbued, however, with the ideology of education professors and reflexively resistant to systemic change, teachers would only give assent to such an agreement at that point at which sustained activist agitation compels the district to move forward with the needed overhaul of curriculum and teaching quality.

Meanwhile, the strike will play out as theater of the absurd, yielding no improvement in a quality of education that sends even those who manage to graduate across a stage to claim a piece of paper that is a diploma in name only---  and, in far too many cases, to mean streets leading to early death or to lives spent under conditions of incarceration.

 

Article #26 >>>>> Origin and Consequences of the Wretched System of Public Education Throughout the United States

The Heavy Toll Taken on Native American Students at the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Due to the Abysmal Quality of MPS Curriculum and Teaching

The Department of Indian Education at the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) is legislatively mandated, so that unlike the MPS Office of Black Male Achievement, this academically hopeless entity cannot be disbanded.  But the 15-member department should be overhauled for focus on academic achievement, so that most of the current staff is dismissed, to be replaced by scholarly academicians whose unrelenting mission is to provide the knowledge and skills sets that American Indian students need to go forth in the world as culturally enriched, civically engaged, and professionally satisfied citizens.

A retrained MPS teaching staff, including those at schools such as Anishinabe Academy and South High School with high percentages of Native American students, should be especially attentive to the literature and history of American Indians while imparting the knowledge and skills sets to be received by all MPS students in the overhaul of curriculum at the district.

Remember that the 31-member staff of Teaching and Learning and the following staff members at the Minneapolis Public Schools are most culpable for the knowledge-deficient, skill-deplete curriculum that academically abuses MPS students  >>>>>

>>>>>

Ed Graff is the Superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS);  his salary is $230,000 per annum.

Aimee Fearing is MPS Senior Academic Officer; her salary is $174,971.

Maria Rollinger is MPS Deputy Senior Academic Officer;  her salary is $146,813.

But Department of Indian Education Director Jennifer Rose Simon, who receives an annual salary of $115,379, and the department’s other staff members, whose salaries total approximately $1,300,000, are also deeply culpable for the academic abuse specifically heaped on Native American students.

Proficiency rates for American Indian students for years ending in 2014-2021 are given as follows, succeeded by a list of staff members of the MPS Department of Teaching and Learning   >>>>>

>>>>> 

Minneapolis Public Schools Department of Indian Education

Academic Proficiency for American Studentds, as Indicated by Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs)

 Academic Years Ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021

(Note   >>>>>     No MCAs were administered during the academic year ending in 2020.)

 Reading

 2014   2015   2016   2017   2018   2019   2021    

  21%   20%   21%   23%   24%   25%   20%

Mathematics                      

2014   2015   2016   2017   2018   2019   2021             

 23%   19%    19%   17%  17%   18%    9%

Science

2014   2015   2016   2017   2018   2019   2021                          

 14%   16%    13%  17%    14%   17%   9%

Department of Indian Education Staff, Minneapolis Public Schools

Jennifer Simon, Director

(Cheyenne River Dakota) 

Diane Leaskas, Account Specialist

Christina Wilson, Family Engagement Specialist

(White Earth)

Alexis Dauenhauer, School Success Program Assistant

(Standing Rock)

Patrick Engrav, School Success Program Assistant

(Bois Forte)

David Stier, School Success Program Assistant

Leo Baker, School Success Program Assistant/ Senior Graduation Coach

(Upper Sioux Community)

Jodi Burke, Counselor on Special Assignment

Tracy Burke, Counselor on Special Assignment

Branden Canfield, Social Worker

Jennifer Weber, Special Education District Program Facilitator

(Oklahoma Choctaw)

Anjanette Parisien, District Program Facilitator

(Turtle Mountain)

Mathew La Fave, Ojibwe Language Teacher

(Fon Du Lac)

Shiela Zephler, Dakota Language Teacher

(Oglala Sioux, Turtle Mountain)

Tate Wilson, Social Studies Teacher

(Sisseton Wahpeton)

Article #25 >>>>> Origin and Consequences of the Wretched System of Public Education Throughout the United States

The Consequences of Academically Inept Administrators and Teachers for African American Families Living at the Urban Core

Ed Graff is the Superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS);  his salary is $230,000 per annum. 

Aimee Fearing is MPS Senior Academic Officer; her salary is $174,971.

Maria Rollinger is MPS Deputy Senior Academic Officer;  her salary is $146,813.

Jennifer Rose is Executive Director of the K-12 program;  her salary is $126,874.

These four officials and the 31 staff members of MPS Department of Teaching and Learning are most responsible for the abysmal academic program of the district.

But to address the particularly troubling academic proficiency levels of African American males in the Minneapolis Public Schools, an Office of Black Male Student Achievement was opened in 2014;  by the 2020-2021 academic year, the office had been renamed as the Office of Black Student Achievement.  This office also bears responsibility for low academic proficiency levels of African America youth.

Michael Walker, a former Dean of Students at Roosevelt High School, is Director of the MPS Office of Black Student Achievement.   He was a very effective Dean of Students and has enormous skills in connecting with young people and their families.  But he has no degree in a key academic subject area, and he has failed miserably in his current position.  When he took the position, Walker said that he would know that he had been successful when he had worked himself out of a job;  seven and a half years on, Walker has still not worked himself out of a job, but with a starting salary of $114,000 and a current salary of $140,577, Walker is $26,000 per year richer in 2022 than he was is 2014.

Walker’s staff includes the following  >>>>>

Office of Black Male Student Achievement Staff, Minneapolis Pubic Schools

Michael Walker, Director

Dena Luna, Educational Equity Coordinator

Nneka N. Abdullah., Queens Program

Umar Rashid, MPA Kings Program

Qiana Surrell, Program Coordinator

Jamil Jackson, Classroom Coach

Richard Magembe, Classroom Coach

Marquez Walker, Classroom Coach

Isa Kibira, Classroom Coach

Graff, Fearing, Rollinger, and Rose all have weak academic training;  none holds a masters or doctorate in a key subject area.  Among the many catastrophic consequences of the anti-knowledge ideology of education professors having become dominant from the 1970s forward is witnessed in the low academic quality of central office administrators, which also pertains to staff through the bureaucracy and at the building level.

And the paramount consequence of having such low-quality administrators and classroom teachers is witnessed in the abysmal academic record of the district.  With regard to African American youth at the Minneapolis Public Schools, most of whom live in low-income families, the record that follows offers little hope for breaking cycles of multigenerational familial poverty;  for many, the chances for lives lived on mean streets leading to early death or incarceration will be high.

Consider the following dismal record    >>>>>

>>>>> 

Academic Proficiency Rates for African American Students at the Minneapolis Public Schools

Results of Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs)

Academic Years Ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021 

(Note  >>>>>      The MCAs were not administered for the academic year ending in 2020.)

Reading                      

2014  2015  2016  2017  2018  2019  2021                          

 22%  21%  21%  21%  22%  23%  19%

Mathematics

2014  2015  2016   2017  2018  2019  2021                          

 22%  23%  21%   18%  18%  18%   9%

Science

2014  2015  2016  2017  2018  2019  2021                          

 11%  15%  13%  12%  11%  11%  11%