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Kulbertis gets positive evaluation

RAPID RIVER — The Rapid River Board of Education has completed its evaluation of Superintendent Jay Kulbertis for 2018-2019. The evaluation scored Kulbertis higher than last year.

The board used the Michigan Association of School Boards’ Superintendent Evaluation Tool. This is the board’s second year using the new tool since it was adopted in 2017.

The board’s evaluation ranked Kulbertis’ performance from March 2018 to February 2019 in various subcategories where scores are rated on a scale of one to four. On this scale, scores of one represented “ineffective” performance, scores of two represented “minimally effective” performance, scores of three represented “effective” performance, and scores of four represented “highly effective.”

This year, Kulbertis received scores of 3.4 for Governance and Board Relations, 3.5 for Community Relations, 3.5 for Staff Relations, 4.0 for Business and Finance, 3.5 for Instructional Leadership, 4.0 for Student Growth, and 4.0 for Progress Toward District-Wide Goals from the Rapid River Board of Education. His overall adjusted score was 95 percent.

“The Rapid River Board of Education is pleased with this year’s evaluation of Dr. Kulbertis’. He has taken the board’s concerns noted in last year’s evaluation seriously and made significant improvements,” Rapid River Board of Education President Michelle Denkins wrote in a statement. Overall adjusted scores between 90 percent and 100 percent are considered “highly effective” under the evaluation system.

Last year Kulbertis scored an overall adjusted score of 75.5 percent, which was considered “effective.” His evaluation last year was the lowest he had ever received from the board due to his role in the suspension of Rapid River’s early college program and the loss of about four full-time equivalents after a mentoring course was found to be misclassified as experiential learning during a regular pupil accounting audit.

“The board appreciates Dr. Kulbertis’ more open line of communication and his continued strengths in labor relations and finance and budgeting,” Denkins wrote.

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