The school board has offered a three-year contract extension to Schools Superintendent Bill Burr, effective July 1, 2024, pending further negotiations.
“We just wanted him to know that we want him to stay,” said David Wilson, school board president, confirming that he and the rest of the board are very satisfied with Burr’s performance on the job.
“He’s doing an amazing job, that’s why we offered it to him,” said school board member Liz Roundtree.
The board voted at its Dec. 18 meeting to extend Burr’s contract.
Burr said in an email on Dec. 21 that an extended contract offer is a gesture of recognition that the role of superintendent is important and appreciated.
“I think we have done quite a bit toward finding our new footing after the COVID era,” he added. “We have moved forward in making the Wrangell educational community a part of our students’ education while adding as much as we can with shrinking enrollment. We continue on the path of a five-year strategic plan for the district and a process of increasing our students’ academic achievement.”
The district hired Burr in 2021. He came to Wrangell from the Delta/Greely School District, where he had worked as assistant superintendent since 2014. He had also served as director of technology and as fill-in principal at the district south of Fairbanks, according to the Wrangell School District’s hiring announcement.
Burr had also worked as director of instructional technology, testing and curriculum in the Aleutians East Borough School District, and as a teacher in the Lower Yukon School District.
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