Meeting Marks End of Bruce Borchers Tenure at Rockwood

Tonight's meeting of the Rockwood Board of Education will be the last attended by Bruce Borchers in his capacity as the district's superintendent.  

Hired in 2010, Borchers' received an extension to his original contract earlier this year, but in May, Patch broke the news that the Rockwood administrator was interviewing for a position with a district in Tennessee. 

Shortly thereafter, Borchers was offered and then accepted a position as the superintendent of the Oak Ridge School District. At that time, the district announced his last day would be tomorrow, June 7. 

His short tenure has marked a tumultuous period for the school district with controversial findings from a state audit prompting the resignation of a school board member and the failure of the $38.4 million Proposition S. 

Borchers will be replaced by former Wentzville Superintendent Terry Adams, who was appointed to fill the post an interim basis for one year at a salary of $250,000.