The Rochester school board has taken the first step in exploring the feasibility of a regional school designed to attract a diverse student body. Board members voted last week to include the measure in a study of the district’s school-choice policy, which already under way. The school could be much like the one proposed more […]
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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Keeping the mentally ill out of prison
Ronnie Cox speaks in a soft, gentlemanly voice. His thinning, curly black hair is speckled with white, and his left hand wobbles with a slight tremor when he talks. Cox, who is 64, spent 16 years in prison. He was addicted to heroin and cocaine, and he contracted hepatitis C, a viral infection that often […]
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New train station, old problems
[UPDATED AND REVISED 7/5/17] Rochester’s new train station is expected to be open for business later in the summer. The 12,000 square foot facility and $29.5 million project is nearing completion, and some government officials have touted that it will improve business and tourism. But how the new station will impact ridership over the long […]
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Inching toward a regional school
[UPDATED AND REVISED 6/28/17] The Rochester school board has taken the first step in exploring the feasibility of a regional school designed to attract a diverse student body. Board members voted 5-to-0 at a special meeting Tuesday, June 27, to include the measure in a study of the district’s school choice policy already in the […]
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Landmark status for divinity school?
Months after officials at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School announced plans to sell the picturesque 24-acre campus to Top Capital of New York, there’s a push to turn the site a city landmark. The matter is expected to go before a joint hearing of the city’s Preservation and Planning boards on Wednesday, July 19, at […]
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RCSD eyes a neighborhood school
The Rochester school district is considering converting School 17 into a strictly neighborhood school. If that happens, this would be the first time in about 15 years that a city school would draw students solely from its immediate neighborhood. (The boundaries haven’t been determined yet.) The school board will discuss the possibility at its June […]
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The non-retiring Carlos Carballada
Carlos Carballada is kind of an enigma. Many people have never heard of him and couldn’t pick him out in a lineup. But in the worlds of commercial banking, city government, and education, he’s much more than well known: the 82-year old Carballada is a deeply admired elder statesman. Carballada’s success is a bit challenging […]
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The state of the neighborhoods
In this year’s November election, Rochester voters will choose the people who will manage the city and its schools for the next four years: the mayor, five of the nine members of City Council, and three of the seven members of the school board. But because voter registration and turnout in the city is so […]
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LECTURE | ‘A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Islamophobia’
Coming up at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park on Saturday, May 27: “A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Islamophobia.” Etin Anwar, associate professor and chair of religious studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will lead the workshop. Anwar is the author of “Gender and Self in Islam,” and she was featured in the WXXI documentary […]
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Creating high-quality schools
Pedro Noguera began a Ted Talk presentation a few years ago by posing a question parents, teachers, and policy makers have been asking for years: “Why it is that educating children in America has become so hard?” Noguera, a researcher and UCLA education professor, gives a sharp response: “We have made this much more difficult […]
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City school budget nears $900 million; board approves SUNY Geneseo takeover of School 19
The Rochester school board has approved an $883 million budget for the 2017-2018 school year and a partnership agreement with SUNY Geneseo to manage School 19. All board members voted in favor of both initiatives at a special meeting last night. But some members were critical of the budget and the relationship with the college. […]
