Oklahoma City Public Schools Superintendent Sean McDaniel receives raise and new contract.

Oklahoma City Public Schools Superintendent Sean McDaniel will receive an $11,300 annual raise under a new contract approved this week by the Oklahoma City school district's board of education.

Without comment, the board voted unanimously to increase McDaniel’s annual base salary to $278,300. The board also bumped McDaniel’s longevity bonus to 11 percent of his base salary, which he receives in June each year that he remains with the district. Under his previous contract, McDaniel earned $264,000 annually with a 10 percent longevity bonus.

The new contract is retroactive to July 1 and will run through June 30, 2027.

McDaniel has served as the district's superintendent since July 2018, making him the longest-serving person in that role since Arthur Steller, who held the job from 1985 through November 1992. Since Stellar left, McDaniel is one of only three people to last at least five years as the district’s superintendent.

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During his tenure, he’s led the district’s “Pathway to Greatness” plan, which closed 15 schools and reconfigured 17 others in 2019. The plan also includes an element that has allowed every district student in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade to be equipped with an electronic device to connect them to the internet, according to the district’s website. Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) centers also have been placed in every district elementary school.

Oklahoma City Public Schools has about 33,000 students and is second only to Tulsa among Oklahoma school districts. McDaniel is the state's highest-paid school superintendent, according to an Oklahoma State Department of Education database.

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