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“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 Rochester School Board unanimously approved the motion to offer Pekel the position after hearing an update on the number of superintendents leaving their positions across the nation and the number of school boards looking for candidates.

"We're not just relying on the search firm. We're also going to do our own random calls — not just from the list of references they give us," said Melissa Amundsen, one of the board members involved in the search firm selection process.