The Rochester Community Schools board will vote on a change to its bylaws on Monday to prohibit individualtrustees fr om requesting documents or information directly from the administration.

Any trustee wanting to know anything not already provided or public, from a budget document to student trend data, will have to seek a consensus of a majority of the board to make the request.

The proposed change is an effort to limit the amount of information requests made of the superintendent, proponents on the board said at the November meeting, particularly aimed at limiting the "voluminous" requests made from one board member.

Trustee Jessica Gupta proposed the change, which the board debated in the first of two required readings at the Nov. 17 board meeting.

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