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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Rockwood State Audit: Various Reactions

Comments regarding the Missouri State audit results of Rockwood School District varied from "shocking" to "disappointing" to "confident." Now everyone is setting out to digest the voluminous details in the audit report.

As the third largest school district in Missouri, State Auditor Tom Schweich admitted that $208 million within Rockwood School District is a large amount of cash flow to follow. "We’ve audited a lot of entities, and I did find a positive attitude here in Rockwood, with the board. Let's wait and see after 90 days what's been done with the recommendations," Schweich said. At that point, a state auditing follow-up team will return to do a second report. Schweich said they will determine a status for all the nine major categories of the report, citing items one of three ways:  implemented, in process or not implemented. "I’m optimistic the matters we've highlighted in our audit report will be fixed," he said. Read related articles: Rockwood …

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Artie Romero

8:28 pm on Sunday, March 24, 2013

RSRS purpose appears to MANY of us to include serving as the ghost participant on the School Board, where it has for years sought to micromanage with their own views through intimidation (with the implied and overt threat of calling for their loss in the Election) and now also advocating against Prop S for reasons that appear to include the lack of inclusion of improvements to one H.S. associated…   more ›

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Rockwood Teachers Secure New Salary Agreement

Rockwood National Education Association (RNEA) and Rockwood School District officials agreed to a two-year salary package with a 5.5 percent increase, per an announcement made Thursday at the Rockwood board of education meeting.

Rockwood School District teachers will receive a 2.75 percent increase during the 2012-2013 school year, and another 2.75 percent increase during the 2013-2014 school year, according to an agreement announced Thursday at the Rockwood board of education meeting held at Crestview Middle School in Ellisville. The motion to pass the agreement passed unanimously. The agreement contains a clause for the 2013-2014 school year only, which reopens salary negotiations if an increase or decrease of 5 percent deviation occurs in the district's total operating revenue. Rockwood Superintendent Bruce Borchers said the district's officials believed the agreement was fair, given the Rockwood's financial limitations. "We must be able to attract and retain …

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Michael Rhodes

8:51 am on Monday, March 12, 2012

Just to be clear I do support the bond issue for a couple of reasons. With the economy still in early stages of recovery (hopefully) interest rates are low and with the construction industry begging for work I think the district will get more for it's dollar now than in the past. Now, maybe next year it would be better, but indicators are showing a recovery has started (although slowly). Which …   more ›

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