The Sunflower County Consolidated School District Board of Trustees has committed another four years to its superintendent.
The board last Tuesday night gave Dr. Miskia Davis a four-year extension with no salary increase ($155,000).
Outgoing Board President Dr. Edward Thomas told The Enterprise-Tocsin this week that the board has extended Davis in the past when her contract was approaching one year left.
Davis’ contract would be one year from being up this coming June.
“We’ve given Dr. Davis several contract extensions,” Thomas said. “When she’s approaching one year left on her contract, we normally give her an extension.”
The board appointed Davis as interim superintendent seven years ago in January 2017. Since then, the district has moved from Failing to an overall B this past year. Thomas said Davis has delivered on the board’s hopes back then.
The board eventually hired Davis to take over full-time the following year.
“That was our expectation. We wanted to move this district as high as we could get it,” Thomas said.
Davis said the new contract is set to expire in 2028.
Like Thomas, she said she had high hopes for the district when she took over full-time in 2017-18.
“I knew the district had the potential to be at this point,” Davis said. “We became successful in 2018-19. I didn’t know we would reach that level of success in such a short period of time, but I was very confident in the team that we had built in our leaders and our central office staff.”
Davis said she credits the district’s leadership, faculty and staff as the district is “on target” to be an A school district next fall.
“Without any hesitation or trepidation, I know it’s the leaders and the teachers who are behind the success we have experienced in Sunflower County, without a shadow of a doubt,” she said.
Also at last weeks’ board meeting, Davis said Debra Johnson was elected board president, Evelyn Woods was elected vice president, and Melanie Townsend was re-elected board secretary.
