The public will be allowed to comment on the plan the Board of Education may approve to address the school district’s low-performing designation.

The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education will be meeting in the Long Street Board Room at 110 S. Long St. in East Spencer at 5 p.m. on Monday.

During the meeting, the board will hold a public hearing on the preliminary plan to deal with the low-performing school district designation that the Rowan-Salisbury School System was given last month.

Nineteen out of 35 schools in the district were given either D or F letter grades on their performance evaluations.

According to documents provided in the last work session, the board has to approve a plan for improvement and submit it to the State Board of Education for approval.

The plan would be available for public comment, and parents and guardians were required to get letters to let them know of the district’s low-performing designation by the end of this month.

During the last meeting, Superintendent Lynn Moody said the district should stick to the strategic plan it already has in place. The details of the strategic plan can be found on the RSS website.

Moody said the strategic plan and actions the district has already done address all of the things a low-performing school district should be doing.

There also has to be a plan developed to give additional support to the principals of the low-performing schools.

Moody discussed the possibility of principals who have been at a school for more than two years being required to go through a remedial plan.

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction is supposed to determine the level of support needed for the district based on the data, but Moody said she does not expect the department to send a lot of people for support.

The public can send comments before the meeting about the updated strategic plan to the board clerk, Patty Overcash, at overcap@rss.k12.nc.us.

The board will also hear an update on the progress of the Wallace Educational Forum, the school system’s new central office building, and, during closed session, an evaluation of the superintendent.

Contact reporter Amanda Raymond at 704-797-4222.