About a month ago, some board members were hopeful that the Rochester school district’s 2017-2018 graduation rate would be the one that finally broke 60 percent. But at the school board’s Excellence in Student Achievement Committee meeting yesterday, district officials said the district is still stuck in the 50 percent range. The graduation rate for […]
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More Big Five mayors interested in mayoral control
Mayoral control is back. Maybe it never went away. An Ithaca Journal report out of Albany says that the State Senate supports giving Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano control of that city’s schools. And Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said recently that he’s interested in mayoral control, too. Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren has so far refrained from making […]
