Members of the Rochester city school board are calling on the state comptroller’s office to investigate alleged “pervasive financial mismanagement” regarding payroll mishaps with the human resources software Oracle.
School board members Beatriz LeBron-Harris, Isaiah Santiago, and Cynthia Elliott signed a joint letter to the state comptroller’s office requesting an investigation into what they call a “systemic failure” that has jeopardized district finances and inflicted severe hardship on workers.
The district began the transition to Oracle in 2021, when Lesli Myers-Small was superintendent, and involved millions of dollars in pandemic relief funds. There have been three superintendents since that time. The district formerly used PeopleSoft…