Board adopts updated administrator handbook with standardized leave and one-year contracts

The Fond du Lac School District Board voted unanimously Nov. 24 to adopt revisions to the 2025–26 administrator handbook meant to align administrator terms and benefits with other employee groups.

District administrator Miss Lombardo told the board the handbook changes are primarily formatting and standardization: nondiscrimination language was clarified, leaves and attendance rules were aligned with other handbooks, and a new one-year contract term for administrators was introduced. "The big ones were a change to the personal leave allowing that to roll over to the next year as it does for all of the other employee groups," Miss Lombardo said.

The handbook also changes leave for newly hired administrators from a single blocked allotment to a standard set of days like other employee groups, she said. The board approved the motion 6–0.

Board members asked whether further details had been discussed during the executive-session workshop; staff said the changes were reviewed in workshops and in executive session prior to the vote. The handbook will take effect for the 2025–26 school year; implementation and notification to administrators will follow standard HR procedures.