This week’s call to action includes the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Meet county candidates The National Organization of Women-Greater Rochester Chapter will hold “Roc NOW Picnic and Candidate Meet and Greet” on Monday, August 19. The Monroe County candidates who will be attending are: […]
Rochester school district
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In the RCSD-city fight, the children are losing
An ugly battle is heating up between City Hall and the school district, and nobody’s looking very good in this.
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There’s no one ‘fix’ for the RCSD’s problems
Some of the district’s problems may be too hard to solve without some dramatic reforms and initiatives. We need to talk about that.
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Perspectives: Jerome Underwood
The Action for a Better Community President & CEO on racism, poverty, and education
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What is the mayor’s role in Rochester’s public schools?
The school district is in deep trouble. Is there a better way to operate the school system in this high-poverty city?
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Lowengard returns as interim superintendent for Rochester district
Daniel Lowengard, the interim superintendent who led city schools following the departure of former superintendent Bolgen Vargas, is returning to the district for a second time as interim. Linda Cimusz will be his chief of staff. Lowengard and Cimusz will start on February 1, 2019. Lowengard was hired to temporarily take over for Vargas in […]
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White tries to cushion Deane-Williams’ blow
Rochester School Board President Van White made a concerted effort at a press conference today to downplay Superintendent Barbara Deane-Williams’ sudden announcement that she is leaving the district at the end of January. He dismissed the idea that she was leaving because of conflicts with board members. And he declined to comment on why she […]
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Feedback 8/8
Send comments to themail@rochester-citynews.com, or post them on our website, rochestercitynewspaper.com, our Facebook page, or our Twitter feed, @roccitynews. Comments of fewer than 450 words have a greater chance of being published, we edit selections for print, and we don’t publish comments sent to other media. Voting ‘barriers’? What ‘barriers’? In the latest in our […]
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Feedback 5/23
We welcome your comments. Send them to themail@rochester-citynews.com, or post them on our website, rochestercitynewspaper.com, our Facebook page, or our Twitter feed, @roccitynews. Those of fewer than 350 words have a greater chance of being published, and we edit selections for publication in print. We don’t publish comments sent to other media. Poverty’s cause As […]
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East students find that friendship is round
It’s just before 8 a.m. at East Lower School, and the hallways of the sprawling school are fairly quiet. East Lower is the junior high school the University of Rochester created at the former East High in 2015. About a dozen students in teacher Amanda Donovan’s sixth-grade class begin their day with a peace circle, […]
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Activists push district to hire more teachers of color
The New York State Department of Education released English and math test scores for grades 3-8 last week, and once again the Rochester school district’s scores were the lowest among the state’s Big Five urban districts. Although Rochester students showed a slight improvement over last year’s scores, only about 7 percent met proficiency standards in […]
