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(May 10, 2022) This evening, the Rochester Board of Education approved the 2022 - 2023 RCSD budget totaling $983,599,049. This budget reflects a commitment to students and sets priorities for delivering high-quality instruction, social emotional wellness and health, and additional supports for our English Language Learners (ELL) and Students with Disabilities. It prioritizes spending based on the strategic, academic, and financial plans and includes federal emergency funds (ARP and CRRSA) to address needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
This budget also provides the opportunity to maintain a healthy fund balance, which ensures fiscal stability and responsibility. While a reduction in operating expenses, unfilled and frozen vacant positions, out-of-district travel, and transitioning some general fund expenditures to ARP and CRRSA occurred, this budget reflects a commitment to our scholars and staff.
Highlights include:
- Funding for additional social workers, increased capacity for the ROC Restorative team, and increases in school health services.
- A new science curriculum that includes materials aligned to new science measures. Scholars will have access to new state-of-the-art equipment, bringing them into a 21st century learning environment.
- Stronger Multi-Tiered Support Systems (MTSS) and compliance regulations to provide academic interventions and supports for Students with Disabilities.
- Fortified resources for Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE) to support ELL students who transitioned from their country to ours.
- Receivership schools will have greater supports for staff development, programming for foundational skills, and the ability for school leaders to more independently respond to their school’s needs.
- Aligned opportunities for job-embedded professional development. District-wide programming will center on literacy training, project management, leadership capacity, and opportunities for collaboration between departments.
- An additional $3M in food service to upgrade meal options, including rice and pasta bowls, salad bars, more plant based entrees for vegetarian scholars, and hot meals.
- An increase in family engagement by providing a platform for every school to communicate with families in multiple languages.
- Implementation of the Data Wise system to provide continuous improvement.
- A high school redesign, where every secondary school will participate in visioning sessions with students and our entire community to create schools of the future.
- School beautification and learning spaces that are more responsive and inviting to students.
- Over 30 different summer programs for students in grades K-12 that focus on academics, arts, sports, career and technical education, and STEAM.
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