The public records cited in this section, in the order they appear: the minutes, packets and recordings of Andover's own meetings.
At the February 11, 2026 Board of Education meeting the superintendent said on the record that for six years the First Selectman, sitting ex officio, has publicly questioned her, the board, the teachers and the principal "every single time" (~2:00:39). The First Selectman replied that he "just started to attend board of education meetings in October," pointing to the recordings for the earlier years (~2:01:23). Asked as the ex officio member where he would cut the school's budget, he restated his standing request for detailed line-item information and named salaries as the main increase (~2:19:13).
At the March 11, 2026 Board of Education meeting the chair read into the record two letters sent to the full board. The first, attributed on the record to First Selectman Jeff Maguire and sent by way of a law firm, posed questions specifically about the superintendent's contract.
At the October 9, 2025 Board of Education meeting the board entered executive session at about 9:23 PM to discuss the superintendent's contract, "which is up this year," and resumed the recording at 10:01 PM. The chair then asked only for other action items and the meeting moved on. No public vote on the contract appears on the record of that meeting. The recording was running when the board returned; what is absent is the vote, not the recording. The contract was subsequently affirmed by a recorded public roll- call vote on March 11, 2026.
At the April 19, 2023 Board of Education meeting the board went into executive session at 9:07 PM to discuss the superintendent's contract, came out at 9:55 PM, and immediately took a public vote: a motion to accept the terms of the proposed renewal of the superintendent's contract for the 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 school years, as discussed in executive session, carried 7-0-0. The vote is on the recording (~2:06:40) and is written into the official minutes. It is the renewal that was due to expire in June 2026, which is why the contract was "up this year" in October 2025.
At the March 11, 2026 Board of Education meeting the board entered executive session to discuss the superintendent's contract, resumed with the recording running, and took a public roll-call vote to proceed with the contract as written from its October meeting. One member abstained, having been absent in October. The vote is on the public record.
A compensation study comparing Andover's superintendent pay with essentially every Connecticut public school district operating only elementary grades: 45 districts, less Norwich as structurally unlike. Contract data was collected for 39 of them, from town and district websites, from scanned public postings, and by records requests to town clerks, and the contracts themselves are published with the report. All figures are cash compensation (salary plus any board-paid annuity, longevity bonus and fixed allowances) normalized to a full-time-equivalent 260-day year, because Connecticut superintendent contracts range from a few days a week to full-time regional posts. Andover employs its superintendent at 0.6 full-time-equivalent and pays $90,000 in salary plus a $10,000 retirement contribution, a total of $100,000; she serves Scotland for the remaining 0.4 under a separate contract with that town. Normalized to full time, Andover's rate is $166,667. Among peers with current contracts Andover ranks 23rd of 24, against a peer median of $193,157. The only district paying less is Eastford, whose superintendent works 104 days a year. The study also finds that pay in this cohort is essentially uncorrelated with district enrollment. It states its own limitation: current contracts for five further peer districts have not yet been located, and one could come in at or below Andover's rate.