If the Rochester School District’s internal problems were fixed, student achievement would increase. But then there are the external problems.
Rochester concentrated poverty
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What do city schools have to do with you?
Every year, tens of thousands of Rochester children are robbed of a good future. Everybody in Greater Rochester bears responsibility.
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Integrated school still far off
Will Greater Rochester ever embrace a racially integrated public school? For the past five years, the advocacy organization Great Schools for All has been seeking ways to reduce racial and economic segregation in public schools. Its efforts have culminated in a proposal for magnet schools that would serve students from the city and the suburbs. […]
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People of color much worse off here, report says
African Americans and Latinx in the nine-county Greater Rochester area are more than three times as likely to be poor as whites are. The median household income for African Americans is less than half that of whites, and the statistic is only slightly better for Latinx. Whites are more than twice as likely to own […]
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Affordable housing and concentrated poverty I recently retired after spending 25 years trying to develop affordable housing in suburban Monroe County. The nonprofit development corporation for which I worked had a mission to develop one unit in the suburbs of Monroe County for every unit developed in the City of Rochester. This was one small […]
