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Long-Range Goals for Davenport School District

Davenport School District

  Reducing poverty and improving literacy are among the top priorities for one school district in the Quad Cities. This week, members of the Davenport school board met to discuss their long-range plan for the district. 

Board president, Ralph Johanson, says administrators and board members are developing strategies to address poverty and low academic performance--all while preparing for a $4 million budget cut. 

"The community is going to see it. The community is going to feel it. There will be really, really hard decisions that have to be made. We don't know yet how that will affect programming. How that will affect staffing, and it's going to be very very difficult the board and our administration and our community," he says.  

Within the past two months, the school board has created task forces to address poverty, the achievement gap, and creating a more comfortable learning environment for students and teachers.  Johanson says collaboration between administrators, the board, and community groups will help the district achieve its vision. 

"We're just in the beginning phases of coalescing some of those leaders and some of those organizations that already organizations and we're going to be talking about that and then developing some strategies."  He says the task forces will reconvene with research and recommendations within the next few weeks."

Renata Sago is WMFE's general assignment reporter and occasional Morning Edition anchor. She covers everything from major political campaigns and unemployment to civil rights legislation and the performing arts for WMFE and NPR.