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School board approves 2025–26 goals, highlights superintendent evaluation and committee assignments
Summary
The Rochester Public Schools board approved six board goals for 2025–26, reviewed a superintendent evaluation that rated Kent Pickell effective or highly effective on 44 of 47 elements, and recorded committee assignments for the year; the board also moved to a closed session on labor negotiation strategy.
The Rochester Public Schools (RPS) school board voted Aug. 19 to approve six board goals for the 2025–26 year and reviewed the results of the superintendent’s annual evaluation, which the board described as exceeding its stated target.
The board approved a resolution adopting goals that direct the superintendent to implement continuous improvement plans tied to the district’s performance measures, adopt a new mission and vision by fall 2025, guide development of a strategic plan, evaluate options related to the 2026 school board primary election process, refine the balanced budget model with a FY27 budget that reflects those refinements, and implement a community engagement plan addressing the strategic plan, budgets and election information.
Superintendent evaluation In a separate monitoring report presented earlier in the meeting, the board summarized the results of the…
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