The state education department has approved a continued relationship between the University of Rochester and the Rochester City School District.
East High School
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Despite resistance, Dade still recommends cutting East’s budget
Ultimately it’s up to the school board members to decide whether they want to pursue cuts to East’s budget.
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East’s partnership with UR extended
The Rochester school board is extending the partnership between East Upper and Lower Schools and the University of Rochester for up to five years. A new contract still needs to be developed by the attorneys for the UR and the city school district, board President Van White said earlier today. During a meeting Thursday night, […]
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East students find that friendship is round
It’s just before 8 a.m. at East Lower School, and the hallways of the sprawling school are fairly quiet. East Lower is the junior high school the University of Rochester created at the former East High in 2015. About a dozen students in teacher Amanda Donovan’s sixth-grade class begin their day with a peace circle, […]
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The UR’s bold commitment to a city high school
So much depressing news is coming out of Washington that it was a relief to attend an event last week and leave with a bit of optimism about a local problem. The source of the optimism was a talk by UCLA Professor Pedro Noguera at East High School. Noguera’s topic – America’s failure to invest […]
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City school budget nears $900 million; board approves SUNY Geneseo takeover of School 19
The Rochester school board has approved an $883 million budget for the 2017-2018 school year and a partnership agreement with SUNY Geneseo to manage School 19. All board members voted in favor of both initiatives at a special meeting last night. But some members were critical of the budget and the relationship with the college. […]
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Catching up with RYCE
Last March, CITY wrote about the Rochester Youth Culinary Experience program and its vision to open a fully functioning restaurant, run completely by East High School students, in Village Gate. On February 2, that vision became a reality. RYCE (pronounced “rice”) opened in the space between Salena’s Mexican Restaurant and Nox Cocktail Lounge, and is […]
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The pressure is on for East High
It’s been almost two years to the day that the University of Rochester proposed taking over East High School; the State Education Department gave the Rochester school district few options. In a district used to crisis, East, one the lowest performing schools in the state, had become a three-alarm fire. If the UR didn’t step […]
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Pressure is on for UR to fix East
When the State Education Department released the results of the English language arts and math tests for grades 3-8 a couple of weeks ago, many of us looked for some sign that Superintendent Bolgen Vargas’s strategies – implementing universal prekindergarten, expanding learning time, and reducing summer learning loss — are working. But Rochester’s students showed […]
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Feedback 7/29
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UR takeover of East nears
In a little over a month, the University of Rochester will be handed the keys, so to speak, to East High School. The State Education Department approved the UR-East deal last year in an attempt to turn around one of the state’s lowest performing schools. There are few delusions about East. The school — with […]
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DiNapoli’s report on school safety raises serious questions
A recent report from State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office offered a sobering look at safety in some of New York’s public schools. A random audit of seven schools during the 2011-2012 school year showed that the schools failed to correctly report instances such as student violence, weapons possession, and sexual offenses. Rochester’s East High School […]
