“I worry about it all the time,” RPS Superintendent Kent Pekel said. “Right now, we are not seeing ‘the great resignation’ from Rochester Public Schools on the whole, but I hear from staff at all levels that things have never been this hard.”
The amounts for the three referendum proposals have varied. The first referendum proposal was in May, 2020 and asked for $58 million. The second was in May, 2021 and asked for $41 million. The upcoming referendum will ask voters to approve $44.5 million.
"We are committed to reversing this trend with programs and policies that meet students where they are academically, emotionally, and physically and lift them up so every student has an excellent chance at academic success. For us, this is the definition of education equity," the statement says.