RCEA Monthly Meeting with Superintendent

The RCEA Executive Committee met with Supt. Price and his leadership team Nov. 1. Topics from members addressed included the role of employees in student fights, special education positions, the new high school semester exam attendance incentive, mentors, IEP meetings, planning period preservation, and online professional development trainings.

The executive committee expressed its appreciation for the new exemption policy for semester exams in high school. Each high school had asked for this to try to improve attendance at the secondary level.

It was made clear that while employees are supposed to do what is reasonable to manage and stop students fights, if someone is making a sincere effort to tell students to stop or sending for additional help if needed, an employee isn’t