The Rochester City School District is facing perhaps one of the most serious crises it has had in recent history: Its leaders just learned that it has significantly overspent its 2018-2019 budget and the school board and administration are scrambling to find answers as the district’s critics pile on. Several days have passed since the […]
Tim Louis Macaluso
I was born and raised in the Rochester area, but I lived in California and Florida before returning home about 12 years ago. I'm a vegetarian and live with my husband and our three pugs. I cover education, health care, and local politics for City.
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RCSD facing spending concerns
The Rochester City School District may have overspent its budget for the 2018-2019 school year, but it’s unclear how much money is involved and what impact, if any, this could have on students’ school programs. The discrepancy was found during a routine year-end audit by the district’s external auditor, school board President Van White said in […]
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Education forum tomorrow night for downtown residents
The Center City Community Coalition, an umbrella organization made up of downtown neighborhood associations, is hosting a forum on school options for downtown residents Wednesday night. C4 hopes to inform parents who live downtown (or those who are considering a move to downtown) that it’s a place where they can live and raise their children […]
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Colgate neighbors sue over development
A group of residents near the former Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School campus are suing to stop local developer Angelo Ingrassia and his company, ROC Goodman, from moving forward with his plan to develop the site. The Colgate Neighbors group and several individually named neighbors of the project filed the lawsuit against the city, City […]
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Monroe County: school enrollment’s flat; budgets aren’t. Why?
As schools opened last week, school district enrollment in the Rochester area was pretty much holding steady: a small decline here, a small uptick there. There’s no significant difference between the 2016-2017 school year and 2018-2019, says Sherry Johnson, executive director of the Monroe County School Boards Association. You might assume, then, that school budgets […]
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Three Green candidates think they can win
You might have assumed that the competition for the seats on City Council was locked up in the Democratic Primary in June. Rochester’s such a heavily Democratic city that the party’s primaries are considered the real election. But Green Party candidates Alex White, Chris Edes, and David Sutliff-Atias strongly disagree. White in particular bristles at the idea that he’s running as a third-party candidate.
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Three firms charged in connection with the Rochester schools modernization project
The US Attorney’s Office has filed charges against three businesses for allegedly defrauding the Rochester schools modernization program. Journee Construction Inc., Bell Mechanical Contractors, and Kaplan Schmidt Electric were under investigation relating to the improper use of “pass through” minority contractors, according to a statement today from US Attorney James Kennedy, Western District of New […]
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Rochester’s students continue to lag in English and math
The State Education Department released the spring 2019 test results for grades 3-8 in English and math today, and the Rochester City School District remains the lowest performing of the state’s Big Five districts. Only 13.2 percent of the Rochester district’s students were grade-level proficient in English. That was an improvement of 1.8 percentage points […]
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Council approves rezoning former Colgate campus
During its meeting Tuesday night, City Council voted 5-3 to rezone the former Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School campus from Institutional Planned Development to a Planned Development District. The new zoning clears a major hurdle for developer Angelo Ingrassia, since it allows for greater flexibility in the development of the site. Council members Jackie Ortiz, Malik Evans, […]
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Students tell Rochester’s fish tale
A group of Brighton High School students wanted a project that would help people get outdoors for exercise and spend more time with nature. So they turned to their passion: cold water fishing. They pulled together nearly $1,000 in grants to create a guide to fishing sites within the city, says Sawyer Hall, a senior […]
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PERSPECTIVES: Angelica Perez-Delgado
Angelica Perez-Delgado’s path to CEO and president of the Ibero-American Action League was challenging. And it certainly wasn’t something she could imagine was possible for her when she was a young Latina growing up in the North Clinton neighborhood. Perez-Delgado had her first child at 16. Though she says she came from a “good home,” […]
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Local churches receive preservation funds
Four historic churches in the Greater Rochester area are getting help on crucial repairs and restoration work, thanks to grants from the New York Landmarks Conservancy. The recipients: St. Luke and St. Simon Cyrene Episcopal Church and Immanuel Baptist Church in Rochester, First Baptist Church on Batavia, and Christ Episcopal Church in Albion. St. Luke […]
