• Ensuring that the Human Resources Department staff are given the tools, training and motivation to operate in the most efficient and effective manner.
• Promoting, recruiting, and retaining the best qualified people, recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the workplace.
• Promoting a competitive salary and benefits package that demonstrates the value that we place on our employees while also allowing our district to be competitive in recruitment and retention.
• Support work environments and school cultures that provide safe, healthy, and secure settings for teaching and learning to take place.

• Establishing, administering and effectively communicating sound policies, rules and practices that treat employees with dignity and equality while maintaining school system compliance with employment and labor laws, school board policy and federal and state laws.

  Jill DePriest
  Executive Director of Human Resources 
  770-651-2378

“I’m sure other school systems feel like family, or at least try to,
but in Douglas County Schools that feeling is real. Like real families, we face challenges,
but we face them together, and we celebrate our many successes together, as one.” 
Lydia Palmer, 2019-2021 District Teacher of the Year
6th Grade Teacher, Fairplay Middle School