Rochester schools Superintendent Bolgen Vargas says he’s making progress in improving city schools, and results are coming. But he faces some serious problems that he says could roll everything backward: open resistance from the administrators union and several changes among top administrators in central office. Vargas is at a key point in his tenure with […]
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Superintendent Vargas needs union help, and more
It’s great that Rochester’s business community leaders are concerned about the academic performance of city school students. Sandy Parker, CEO of the Rochester Business Alliance, and Dutch Summers, chair of Jasco, said in last Sunday’s Democrat and Chronicle that they are disturbed by the Association of Supervisors and Administrators’ recent vote of “no confidence” in Superintendent Bolgen Vargas. […]
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ASAR says ‘no confidence’ in Vargas
For the first time since it was established in 1980, the Association of Supervisors and Administrators of Rochester has voted “no confidence” in a city schools superintendent. At a press conference this afternoon, Deborah Rider, ASAR’s president, said that 87 percent of its members supported the no-confidence vote against Superintendent Bolgen Vargas. Rider cited a […]
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Principals may take vote of no confidence against Vargas
Updated at 12:21 p.m. Adam Urbanski, president of the Rochester Teachers Association, says that teachers do not share ASAR’s discontent. Teachers are unhappy, but it has to do with wrong-headed policies coming out of the State Education Department, he said. And teachers do not blame Vargas for those policies, Urbanski said. Urbanski said he is […]
