DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - The assistant superintendent with Decatur Public Schools just received a new five-year contract.
The school board approved a new five-year contract for Jeff Dase, which will keep him with DPS through 2025.
A DPS website page for Dase said he directs and supervises "all functions related to student learning and curriculum, budgets for curriculum, instruction, assessment and staff development". It said he also "administers all functions relative to the federal and state grants and titles" and "develops, organizes and manages the day-to-day operations of the educational program".
"I know where my heart is," Dase said to School Board members, after they approved his extension. "Me and Decatur Public School...rising to the top."
The Assistant Superintendent's contract is performance-based. His contract under DPS is "linked to student performance and academic improvement of the district."
His salary will be $156,715 per year. Dase's new contract will start July 1, 2020 and it will end on June 30, 2025.
