Sylvia Atkinson

Sylvia Atkinson is a results-driven and community-oriented educational administrator who has continuously demonstrated her commitment to encouraging teachers and school personnel to excel in their positions of leadership. One of the ways Sylvia Atkinson has been most successful in her over 15-year career in education is her creation and maintenance of an innovative educator and personnel compensation system which has allowed for a maximization of staffing formulas to best serve staff and students. At the same time, Sylvia Atkinson’s maximization of budgetary allocations through a healthy balance of local, state, and federal revenues with district expenditures has allowed for an atmosphere of learning unmarred by potentially damaging financial worries.

As an additional example of Sylvia Atkinson’s fiscal accomplishments, during the three and a half years she spent as School Superintendent of the Los Fresnos Independent School District, Sylvia Atkinson was credited with the employment of a routine cycle of district-wide zero-based budgeting. This innovative budgeting strategy fulfilled community and School Board expectations by ensuring that all funds were directly connected to necessary student instruction and instrumental staff support.

Not one to discount the potentially damaging relationship between the skyrocketing cost of education and the variables of a free market economy, Sylvia Atkinson has continuously stressed the importance of grants and scholarships as means to help students increase their opportunities and allow for the sustaining of a lifelong commitment to learning. Sylvia Atkinson’s intercession and guidance has allowed countless students to take advantage of grants and awards like the Early College high School Grant and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Millennium Scholar award. Furthermore, through structured college counseling events and parent fairs, Sylvia Atkinson has helped families of all income levels become more informed on student aid.