The Rochester school board is working to establish a partnership between SUNY Geneseo’s School of Education and School 19 on Seward Street in Rochester. The agreement would mark the second time that the school board has looked to a higher education institution to assume the management and supervision of a city school. The first was East […]
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Union could run Syracuse school
The Syracuse school district is seriously considering one of the least-used options the State Education Department offers school officials to fix failing schools: charter conversion, according to an article on Syracuse.com. And the Syracuse teachers union would run the school, which is even more unusual. The SED gives school districts a limited set of options when it […]
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Commissioner King comes down on Buffalo schools
Nearly a year ago, Rochester schools Superintendent Bolgen Vargas ended his comments in a public meeting with an ominous statement. “We’re running out of time,” he said, referring to the need to improve student performance. In an interview earlier today, Vargas said that all the community has to do is look west at the Buffalo […]
