Rochester City School District officials decided, at a meeting earlier this week, to close School 41 and re-open a new school in the same location
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RCSD eyes a neighborhood school
The Rochester school district is considering converting School 17 into a strictly neighborhood school. If that happens, this would be the first time in about 15 years that a city school would draw students solely from its immediate neighborhood. (The boundaries haven’t been determined yet.) The school board will discuss the possibility at its June […]
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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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RCSD exploring military option
In the mid-2000’s, many school districts across the country challenged military recruiters’ access to their high schools. Recruiters had high quotas to meet the demands of the Iraq war. And even though the No Child Left Behind Act required high school administrators to give military recruiters similar access as college recruiters to students or risk […]
