Improving Student Performance: Can We Get Our Arms Around It
Rochester city schools
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Big needs, big rewards… big costs
About this series Throughout the spring, the Rochester school district struggled to close a large shortfall in its 2004-05 budget. It also struggled to fight off critics’ charges that the district spends too much money — that its per-pupil cost is too high, that its costs are rising dramatically, despite its declining enrollment. In […]
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Pennies on the sidewalk
Monroe County legislators have sure taken a pounding over the school nurse fiasco, and they probably deserve it. But those who accuse them of politicizing the problem miss the fact that it was — at birth — a political issue. When then-County Executive Jack Doyle announced late last year that he was slashing the […]
