Send comments to feedback@rochester-citynews.com, with your name; city, town, or village; and, for verification, daytime phone number. We edit selections for publication. Locust Club: ‘PAB proposal isn’t warranted’ In response to the March 13 Feedback letter by Ted Forsyth of the Police Accountability Board Alliance: The Rochester Police Locust Club again finds itself in the […]
Aquino report
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Rochester school board approves Aquino response plan
The Rochester school board is meeting this afternoon to vote on a plan to improve district operations, in response to a critical report by state-appointed Distinguished Educator Jaime Aquino. The board has posted the plan on its website.
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Do you know how to fix Rochester’s schools?
The city school district faces enormous challenges. Wrong decisions, by elected officials and the public, will have terrible consequences.
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Warren’s considering involvement in schools
There has been widespread community concern about the Rochester school district for years. That concern seems to have grown, though, in the wake of the tough assessment by the district’s state-appointed Distinguished Educator, Jaime Aquino. And based on several community forums, Mayor Lovely Warren says she believes the community wants city government – and her […]
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The missing pieces of the Aquino Report
Dan Drmacich, a former principal of School Without Walls, is coordinator of the Rochester Coalition for Public Education. The recommendations of the state-appointed Distinguished Educator, Dr. Jaime Aquino, to the Rochester City School District could result in a more effective bureaucracy and some superficial gains for students. However, without focusing on the family, neighborhood and […]
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Rochester police, schools and public participation
Several meetings of critical importance to Rochester and its residents will be held over the next few weeks. The public should show up.
