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Board approves superintendent's annual goals after debate over measurability
Summary
After extended discussion about targets and how to measure them, the board approved Superintendent Russo's proposed goals, including PSAT/SAT stretch targets and a districtwide data protocol; an amendment to add stricter measurable outcomes was defeated.
The Rochester Community Schools Board of Education voted to approve Superintendent Jason Russo's goals for the year after more than an hour of discussion about measurability, implementation and how the board should evaluate outcomes.
Russo presented a revised package that tightened the PSAT/SAT readiness target and increased an early-childhood enrollment percentage goal for pre-K. He described Goal 1 as a district-average PSAT/SAT stretch target and defended the change by citing a decade of local data: "So the jump from PSAT 8, 9, 10, SAT, the average across the last 10 to 12 years in RCS was between... 41.8 and 42.6,"…
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