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A message from Superintendent E. Susan Gourley
E. Susan Gourley, Ph.D.
Superintendent
Welcome to Lincoln Public Schools – located in the heart of the Midwest, the second largest School District in the state of Nebraska – where we educate more than 34,500 students in 64 schools, helping our children grow into confident, capable adults.
Lincoln Public Schools offers a strong, exemplary, solid academic program with an emphasis on mathematics, science, reading and social studies, but also provides rich opportunities for music, fine arts, athletics, world languages, and a broad range of extracurricular activities.
Our dedicated and talented staff is among the brightest and the best. Our mission is student learning, based on a curriculum that provides essential knowledge and skills to succeed in school, higher education, and the world of work.
We educate all of our students. And we educate them well. We have committed ourselves to a journey: Taking our good School District – a very good School District – and making it a great School District. Using the work of Jim Collins in his book Good to Great, we have established four goals:
Goal Number 1: To increase student achievement, student learning, and graduation rates.
Goal Number 2: To provide adequate classrooms and learning environments for all students – to support student achievement.
Goal Number 3: To increase stakeholder engagement – focused on student achievement.
Goal Number 4: To increase our communication efforts to stakeholders – with emphasis on student achievement.
We invite you to get to know the School District online. You also can contact me at 436-1601, sgourley@lps.org, or at our School District Offices located at 5901 O Street. Your interest in and support of our work is appreciated.
E. Susan Gourley, Ph.D.
Superintendent
