New bus passes will greatly restrict the thousands of city school students who have been using the RTS system to travel freely throughout the city, said school and city officials today. Most students will only be allowed to travel to and from school. Beginning this Friday, more city students will be required to use the […]
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EDUCATION: Urbanski will wait and see on Malgieri hire
One day after news of Patricia Malgieri’s hire by the Rochester school district leaked out, Rochester Teachers Association President said Malgieri is no friend of public education. Urbanski was reached by phone this afternoon. Malgieri has been hired as chief of staff to Rochester schools Superintendent Bolgen Vargas. Urbanski said his experiences with the former […]
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[UPDATED] Agreement near on funding school modernization
UPDATE (Thursday, May 31): The bill passed the Assembly yesterday and now goes to the governor for his signature. BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO and CHRISTINE CARRIE FIEN Mayor Tom Richards, city schools Superintendent Bolgen Vargas, and Rochester Teachers Association President Adam Urbanski are close to resolving the funding issue that nearly stalled the district’s schools […]
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The incredible shrinking district
When the city school district held a series of public forums last fall to put together a list of school-closing criteria, almost nobody showed. That surprised officials at the time, but no one’s surprised by the amount of attention being paid now that those criteria are being implemented. Facing permanently declining enrollment, the district embarked […]
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In the eye of the storm
Again this spring, the Rochester school district has been wrestling with a serious budget gap, with expenses increasing faster than revenue. Again this spring, the district — like school districts throughout New YorkState — has had to put together its budget without knowing how much it will get from the state, its largest single revenue […]
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Caught in the middle
The RochesterSchool District has cut teachers and other staff and is closing one school. And it still faces a budget shortfall of as much as $36 million, unless state aid closes that gap. With less than a month to go in this school year, district officials aren’t sure they’ll offer summer-school programs. The reason: […]
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Home-school advantage: choice or segregation?
The best school for your children may not be the one within walking distance. Instead of being theoretically tied to their neighborhood school, city kindergarteners next school year will have a choice of several schools. The schools available to them depend on which zone they live in. The city school district has been divided […]
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Primary challenge: the city School Board race
Seven people are running in a Democratic primary for what must surely be the most thankless of all local elected offices, the Rochester School Board. Although there will be Republican, Independence, and Working Families parties on the ballot in the November election, the four winners of the September 9 Democratic primary will have a strong […]
