“Progress is not as fast as it needs to be,” he said at the Sept. 20 school board meeting.

Despite more money allocated for education in the last legislative session, “The increase falls far short,” he said, displaying a chart that says funding is about $850 short per student.

Lundberg said the legislature tries to find money year after year.

“They borrow from here, they borrow from there, but there’s no consistent money,” he said.

He said other areas of the state budget would need to be cut, or more money needs to be raised elsewhere.

Lundberg said the only area for more money that seems to have any support is an out of state online sales tax that could bring in $500 million a year. A look at tax loopholes and a capital gains tax also will be studied.

Lundberg’s second priority is delinking state assessments from graduation requirements.

“It was a huge topic of conversation on other ways for kids to graduate,” he said of his meeting with legislative representatives from other districts.

“The House is on board, but the Senate needs some persuading,” Lundberg wrote in a position paper.

He said the legislature is driven to solve the problem because of the cost of remediation of students entering college and not being prepared academically.

The other issues the directors supported was a simple majority for bonds in November general elections, which seems to have bipartisan support.

However, Lundberg’s No. 3 goal is social-emotional and behavioral support for students.

In other school news:

•Superintendent Becky Berg said at least one teacher may be transferred to a different school because of overcrowding.

•Technology director Scott Beebe said Chromebooks will go to high school students in October and middle school in November. “It will be a crazy mess for a couple of months,” he said. Berg added, “But it’s a good disruption.”

•Board Member Chris Nation and Lundberg talked about a new governance model for the district. “We don’t want to micro manage, but we don’t want to rubber stamp either,” Lundberg said.

•Lundberg also said as the district develops curriculum it needs to develop a system that is a road map to student learning, and “help the kids be the best that they can be.”

During the work session, chief academic officer Cinco Delgado talked about elementary English Language Arts and middle school math curriculum.

He said 63 teachers have applied to help develop the English curriculum. Up to half will be chosen to do the work. They need to have shown skills in collaboration, teamwork, communication and self-direction as leaders. A field test will be done in February with the board adopting materials next summer.

At the same time, middle school teachers will work on math curriculum.