Lincoln Public Schools

He previously was the superintendent for Sioux City Community School District for fourteen years.

[3] The district includes almost all of the Lincoln city limits, all of Yankee Hill, and portions of Cheney and Emerald.

[5][6] Some of the most common first-languages spoken within the program are Arabic, Chinese, French, Karen, Kurdish, Nuer, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian[7][8] and Vietnamese.

[9][10] The continually increasing influx of refugees and immigrants to Lincoln over recent years, which has included refugees/immigrants from Iraq, Mexico, Burma and refugee camps in Thailand, has caused LPS to hire additional ELL teachers at an increasingly rapid pace.

Collaboration between the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and LPS provides children in the 3rd grade with weekly instruction in classical strings.