When you ask high-school students in the City of Rochester about their priorities, landing a part-time job is right up there. And that doesn’t surprise Glen Jeter, owner of the McDonald’s on Upper Falls Boulevard near North Clinton, at all. “Things are challenging in general for a lot of households when you live in a […]
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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Regents grant delay in teacher evals
The Board of Regents has agreed to changes to the teacher evaluation system that will likely take a year to implement. Under the changes, teacher evaluations will be less reliant on student test scores than Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed, according to a report by Albany’s Times Union. State legislators approved a new and much […]
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Medical marijuana dispensary proposed for Eastman Business Park
Columbia Care has reached an agreement with Eastman Kodak Company to use of more than 200,000 square feet on the site to create a medical marijuana cultivation facility and dispensary, according to a statement from the company. Columbia Care currently operates in five states and has created one of the first national medical marijuana patient […]
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Dissension on the Board of Regents
Public dissension is rare among the New York State Board of Regents. But as further proof that concerns about the new teacher-evaluation law go well beyond the state’s teachers unions, a group of Regents have come out against the law. Seven members of the prestigious 17-member group issued what they described as “Position Paper Amendments” […]
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Charter suit could be a milestone
The five families from Rochester and Buffalo who are suing the state over funding for charter schools will have their day in court. State Supreme Court Justice Donna Siwek last month refused to dismiss the case. “This means the court believes that this case has merit,” says Harold Hinds, legal director for Northeast Charter Schools […]
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RCSD per pupil spending doesn’t tell the whole story
The Rochester City School District spends more than $20,000 per student, more than just about any other district in the country, according to recent US census data. That’s higher than neighboring Buffalo and Syracuse. Shocking? Breaking news? Hardly. This story comes around about once a year, and the city school district never comes out looking […]
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The cost of cars
When Norman Garrick looks at cities that declined during the latter half of the 20th century, he says that he’s seldom surprised to find that transportation issues are often an overlooked root cause. “I think a lot of what happened to the Rust Belt cities and some of the cities in the Northeast have been […]
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Buffalo stews over mayoral control
It was one of the fiercest political debates Rochester has had in recent years. In 2009, the city was embroiled in a divisive wrangle over whether to dissolve the Rochester Board of Education and hand governance of city schools over to then mayor Bob Duffy. The issue sparked protests outside City Hall, led to a […]
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Rally will address district’s high suspension rates
The activist group Metro Justice will hold a rally today at 6 p.m. on revisions to the Rochester school district’s Code of Conduct. The event, which will be held prior to the school board’s monthly business meeting, will take place at district headquarters, 131 West Broad Street. The rally is intended to urge board members […]
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Standing up for city schools
These parents see themselves as urban dwellers and they want their children to have the same experience, and that includes the city’s public schools.
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Cuomo’s education tax credit raises questions
Once again, Governor Andrew Cuomo has taken to the airwaves to help drive his agenda through the Legislature. This time, he’s asking us to call on our Assembly reps to tell them to approve his proposed Parental Choice Education Act. The television ads make an emotional appeal for fairness by giving lower income parents a […]
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Brizard headed to Buffalo?
Former Rochester schools Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard is a finalist in the Buffalo school board’s search for a new superintendent.
