Joanne Giuffrida’s departure from the city school board puts her fellow board members in a potentially contentious position. Granted, the fractious board, which has brawled over the departure of former superintendent Cliff Janey and its own bylaws during the past year, has been a powder keg of conflicting personalities for some time now. But […]
Joanne Giuffrida
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Doing the math: the middle-school dilemma
When our son, proud alumnus of the Rochester school district, was a high-school senior in 1988, he and his classmates wore a T-shirt created especially for them. Its wording: “They saved the best till last.” The school was Monroe Junior-Senior High School, of which his (we thought) was the last graduating class. The next […]
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News Briefs 12.24.02
The bells, THE BELLS! Mistletoe, bells, the scent of pine, bells, snow, bells, lists of who’s been naughty and nice, and the ringing of bells all around as you shop this holiday season. And these bells have been ringing in front of red kettles in Rochester since 1900. “The whole red kettle concept started […]
