“(So) less talk about purchasing school buses and putting shingles on roofs… Not that those don’t matter, but we’re all here for kids,” Superintendent Marcus Lewton said.
One of the main discussion points made during this week's teacher negotiations meeting with the Dickinson Public School Board and Dickinson Education Association was salary matrix and increasing the work day for teachers. We spoke with Superintendent Marcus Lewton, Business Manager Stephanie Hunter and DEA President Shawna Knipp to learn more.
The North Dakota State Board for Career and Technical Education awarded funding from the Career and Technical Education Capital Projects Fund to 13 projects in the amount of $68,276,230, including the Southwest CTE Academy in Dickinson. Superintendent Marcus Lewton spoke on the latest updates of the academy as well as enrollment projections and late start Wednesdays during this week’s school board meeting.