Great Schools wants to set up primary and secondary magnet schools that would cross existing school district lines, each with a limit on the number of poor children it enrolled.
Concentrated poverty
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Another schools ‘solution’ that avoids the big issue
We keep trying to fix the problems in Rochester schools. But none of the fixes address the cause.
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Looking for positives in city schools’ news
The Rochester school district’s growing challenges offer opportunities, but the community will have to take advantage of them.
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Vargas out: Impossible job claims another superintendent
This is not a Rochester problem. It is a problem facing every urban school district in the country.
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Rochester’s anti-poverty report: An uninvited skeptic’s review
“I worry that the final recommendations will avoid dealing with the tough issues that decades of studies say have led to this crisis.”
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‘Not my problem’: reactions to the shootings
Yes, there’s a ‘morality problem.’ But why are so many people in a few neighborhoods involved in violence and other illegal activity?
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Tackling poverty when we don’t like the remedy
We keep treating the concentration of poverty as if it were simply a city problem – and a city school district problem.
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What can we do about our high poverty rate?
There’s no one solution to concentrated poverty. And nothing we have to do will be simple.
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Yet another challenge for the anti-poverty folks
To ‘eradicate poverty’ in the City of Rochester, we’ll need to create jobs. But we’ll have to do much, much more.
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Killing public schools: Do critics realize what’s ahead?
Public schools are in trouble, and there’s plenty of blame to go around. But do critics know what their attacks will do?
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The roots of our poverty
In 1970, a City Observatory report notes, 2693
residents of Rochester and close-in suburbs lived in census tracts with a high
poverty level. In 2010, that number had grown to 37,670.
