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SUPERINTENDENT GETS PAY HIKE, EXTRA STIPEND.


Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer

LANCASTER - Lancaster School District Lancaster School District may refer to:
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 trustees have given Superintendent Steve Gocke a 2.7 percent pay hike, raising his annual base salary to $152,000.

The pay increase follows an 8 percent raise in January 2004 for Gocke, who has been the top administrator for Lancaster schools since 1995.

``We gave him a small increase. We lost our business person and he's doing double duty,'' board president Keith Giles said. ``It's because of the extra duties that he's doing, and he's been doing a good job, I think.''

Gocke also will receive a $500-a-month stipend for performing the duties of the assistant superintendent Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank.  of business services, bringing his total annual compensation to $158,000.

The board voted at Tuesday's meeting to approve the pay raise. Gocke's current contract runs through November 2006.

The business services assistant superintendent position was vacant from October 2001 until September Until September is a 1984 romantic drama set in France. It stars Karen Allen as an American tourist in Paris who falls in love with a married Frenchman (Thierry Lhermitte). External links  2004, when a person began training for the job, but that person left this summer to take a job with another district.

Gocke was a longtime administrator with the district when he was hired as superintendent in 1995, replacing David Alvarez, who left to take a job with the Chino Chino (chē`nō), city (1990 pop. 59,682), San Bernardino co., S Calif.; founded 1887, inc. 1910. It is the business and processing center of a diversified farming (notably dairying) area.  Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. .

Gocke joined the district in 1977 as a teacher after seven years as a teacher in the Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969.  Unified School District. He served as a resource specialist teacher at Monte Vista School and implemented the first Antelope Valley class for severely emotionally disturbed students at El Dorado School.

He then served two years as assistant principal at Park View Intermediate School. In 1980, Gocke became director of pupil personnel services, and in 1991 was named assistant superintendent of business services.

Gocke earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Loyola University of Los Angeles and obtained a teaching credential from California Lutheran College (now University) in Thousand Oaks.

His post-graduate work in administration and educational psychology was completed with a master's degree from California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an . He has a doctorate in clinical psychology from William Lyons University.

Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744

karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com
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