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Sun Prairie report shows strong retention and satisfaction but flags shortfall in hires of people of color
Summary
A Sun Prairie Area School District presentation on Operational Results 4 found high overall retention and employee satisfaction but noted declines in applicants and hires who identify as people of color and a professional-development metric the district plans to replace.
Nick Rykoff, assistant superintendent of operations for the Sun Prairie Area School District, presented Operational Results 4, the district’s human-resources monitoring report, saying it will be forwarded to the Sun Prairie Area School District board for consideration on Feb. 9, 2026.
Rykoff said the report covers recruitment, retention, employee demographics and organizational culture and is intended to track progress rather than only compliance. “There are 10 measures, of reasonable progress in OR 4, and reasonable progress was achieved in 8 of those 10 measures,” he said.
The report highlighted several positive measures. Rykoff said the district’s position fill rate by the first day of school was 98.6% and that retention of new staff was 91.1%. He cited strong onboarding results: “94.3% of employees felt valued during the onboarding process,”…
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