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Children & Youth
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Commitment
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Education
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Governance/Public Policy
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STEM
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Technology Enablement
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C2C: Post-Secondary
C2C: Workforce Participation
Last modified: September 29, 2023
Highlights
1. Post Bulletin: Rochester 10 Year, $ 10M+ school funding referendum Op ED PB: Kent Pekel: "Why I recommended a technology referendum for the Rochester schools"; 2. School Board Study Session; 3. Official YouTube Presentation
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School Board Decision
At the RPS School Board meeting on Aug. 1, the board voted to approve my recommendation to place a referendum on the ballot in November that would ask voters to approve $10,150,000 in funding each year for a 10-year period to support technology operations, upgrades, and related initiatives.
Fund allocations to replenish RPS General Fund
Approval of the technology levy would enable the school district to redirect approximately $7 million from the school district’s General Fund that is currently used to finance technology services to instead support teaching, learning, student mental health, and other priorities.
Federal Covid Dollars Replacement
$3 million of the $10,150,000 that the levy would generate each year would enable RPS to invest in new technology or to replace federal funding for technology that the district received during the COVID pandemic but that ends in September 2024.
Average Out of pocket to homeowner
If approved, the capital projects levy that I recommend the School Board place on the ballot in November 2023 would result in an increase of $135 i n the taxes paid by the owner of an average-priced home in Rochester (which is currently identified as $325,000) each year — or $11.25 per month.
Usage of funds for technology
Examples of the resources we could purchase or sustain include:
Software and hardware to keep students and staff safe both inside and outside schools and to protect against future cyberattacks
Computers and tablets for students that will enable RPS to continue providing every student with a device for learning, which the district first achieved in 2020 thanks to federal COVID funding
Software applications that advance priorities of the RPS Strategic Plan, such as accelerating student learning in reading and math and helping students develop and implement plans for success in postsecondary education and a career.
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Referendum Video School Board Meeting
VIDEO
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Official RPS YouTube Messages
VIDEO
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Pinned Rochester Public Schools organization and project reports
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Project Report of Family and Community Engagement (RPS) :
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Impact Lvl1: Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education
Impact Lvl2: C2C: 3rd Grade Reading
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Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) :
July 26, 2023 : 2022-2023 RPS Disipline Data
Impact Lvl1: Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education
Impact Lvl2: C2C: 3rd Grade Reading, C2C: 8th Grade Math, C2C: Post-Secondary, C2C: Workforce Participation, Higher-Education
Project Report of Rochester Public Schools Strategic Plan :
April 25, 2023 : Rochester Public Schools Strategic Plan 2022
Impact Lvl1: Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Governance/Public Policy
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Project Report of RPS American Indian Education :
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Impact Lvl1: Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Food
Impact Lvl2:
Project Report of Rochester Public Schools Strategic Plan :
August 09, 2022 : Plans to Strengthen Belonging and Behavior During the 2022-2023 School Year
Impact Lvl1: Children & Youth, Commitment, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Governance/Public Policy
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Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) :
July 20, 2022 : Outcome and Discipline Data 2021-2022
Impact Lvl1: Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education
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Organization Report:
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Impact Lvl1: Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education
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Project Report of Rochester Public Schools Strategic Plan :
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Impact Lvl1: Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education
Impact Lvl2: C2C: Prenatal-K Development, C2C: Kindergarten Readiness, C2C: 3rd Grade Reading, C2C: 8th Grade Math, C2C: HS Graduation, C2C: Post-Secondary, C2C: Workforce Participation
Project Report of Family and Community Engagement (RPS) :
January 12, 2022 : Family and Community Engagement (RPS) Report
Impact Lvl1: Caring Relationship, Diversity and Inclusion, Education
Impact Lvl2: C2C: Prenatal-K Development, C2C: Kindergarten Readiness, C2C: 3rd Grade Reading, C2C: 8th Grade Math, C2C: HS Graduation, C2C: Post-Secondary, C2C: Workforce Participation
Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) :
July 21, 2020 : Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) 2019 -2020
Impact Lvl1: Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education
Impact Lvl2:
Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) :
September 23, 2019 : Analysis of RPS referal data
Impact Lvl1: Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education
Impact Lvl2:
Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) :
July 17, 2019 : Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights)
Impact Lvl1: Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education
Impact Lvl2: C2C: 8th Grade Math, C2C: Post-Secondary, C2C: Workforce Participation, Higher-Education
Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) :
August 24, 2017 : August 2017 Update of June 27 RPS Board Study of 2016-2017 discipline data
Impact Lvl1: Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education
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Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) :
March 09, 2016 : Consultant interim identification on barriers
Impact Lvl1: Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education
Impact Lvl2:
Project Report of Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights) :
January 05, 2016 : An openBEAM 5+1 proposal to address school disciplinary dispairty
Impact Lvl1: Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education, Governance/Public Policy
Impact Lvl2:
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