City-suburban partnerships could develop integrated pilot magnet schools, similar to national models that are improving outcomes for low-income students.
Great Schools for All
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Integrated school still far off
Will Greater Rochester ever embrace a racially integrated public school? For the past five years, the advocacy organization Great Schools for All has been seeking ways to reduce racial and economic segregation in public schools. Its efforts have culminated in a proposal for magnet schools that would serve students from the city and the suburbs. […]
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Urban Action 10/25
This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Exploring ties between Jews and Muslims Nazareth College will present “Jewish and Muslim Relations: Past, Present, and Future,” a talk by Reuven Firestone, on Thursday, October 26. Firestone, a professor at Hebrew Union […]
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It’s time to build support for a regional school
This time every year, many of us get a big emotional lift from the Jazz Festival. And for me, it’s not just the music. It’s all those people. Downtown. The Jazz Festival, Fringe, and other big attractions aren’t the only signs of a stronger downtown. Enough people are moving into the new developments that we’re […]
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School board approves studying a regional school
The Rochester school board has taken the first step in exploring the feasibility of a regional school designed to attract a diverse student body. Board members voted last week to include the measure in a study of the district’s school-choice policy, which already under way. The school could be much like the one proposed more […]
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Inching toward a regional school
[UPDATED AND REVISED 6/28/17] The Rochester school board has taken the first step in exploring the feasibility of a regional school designed to attract a diverse student body. Board members voted 5-to-0 at a special meeting Tuesday, June 27, to include the measure in a study of the district’s school choice policy already in the […]
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A realistic, proven plan to create better schools
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.
