Trustees for Highland Park ISD have made it official: They’ve hired Tom Trigg, a Kansas educator, to be the school district’s new superintendent.
Trigg, 62, signed a four-year contract on Monday for his role with the suburban school district, which covers all of University Park, most of Highland Park and parts of Dallas. He is the superintendent of Blue Valley Schools, a high-performing suburban district in Overland Park, Kan., which is about 12 miles southwest of Kansas City, Mo.
Trigg will make $325,000 per year, including a $5,000 annual stipend he’ll receive because he has a doctoral degree. He will get a car allowance of $1,000 per month and a technology allowance of $150 per month.
Highland Park ISD will also pay Trigg up to $20,000 for relocation expenses and cover realtor fees for Trigg to sell his home in Kansas and buy a new one in Texas.
As a condition of his contract, Trigg must live in the school district. He will receive a $1.2 million, interest-free loan from the district to pay for his home. He must pay back the money within four months of his contract’s expiration.
He will earn a higher salary than the former Highland Park ISD superintendent and the current superintendent of Dallas ISD, a district with many more students. Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles makes an annual base salary of $300,000.
Dallas ISD’s enrollment was 160,253 students this past school year, compared to Highland Park ISD’s enrollment of about 7,000 students.
Dawson Orr, who Trigg will succeed, made an annual salary of $260,818. He left the district to be a professor and department chair at SMU’s Simmons School of Education and Human Development.
Trigg was named the lone finalist on June 1. State law requires a 21-day waiting period before school districts hire a superintendent.
Melissa Repko/ Dallas Morning News
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