The Rochester school board is laying the groundwork for its superintendent search. Adding to the inherent difficulty of the task is the fact that confidence in the board is low and that the hiring process may be viewed as more of a test of the board’s abilities than the skills of the candidates. Some board […]
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Forcing Urbanski out won’t help city students
An attack on Rochester teachers union president Adam Urbanski is an attack on teachers, and that distracts us from the enormous challenge ahead of us.
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Feedback 11/4
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Vargas out: Impossible job claims another superintendent
This is not a Rochester problem. It is a problem facing every urban school district in the country.
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Neighborhood schools, poverty, and the future
Studies show that high-poverty schools hurt children. But our options for lowering Rochester’s concentration of poverty are limited.
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Tackling poverty when we don’t like the remedy
We keep treating the concentration of poverty as if it were simply a city problem – and a city school district problem.
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The Vargas future
Superintendent Bolgen Vargas’s contract with the Rochester school district ends June 30, 2016. While it may seem premature to be thinking about it, the school board will need to have a serious discussion in the next few months about whether to renew that contract or start the search for a new superintendent. It’s hardly a […]
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Buffalo stews over mayoral control
It was one of the fiercest political debates Rochester has had in recent years. In 2009, the city was embroiled in a divisive wrangle over whether to dissolve the Rochester Board of Education and hand governance of city schools over to then mayor Bob Duffy. The issue sparked protests outside City Hall, led to a […]
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On my mind (still): poverty and the city
We’ve tried to combat major community problems previously, in the same way. And we’ve gotten the same sad results.
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Revised law empowers school supers
A revision to the state education law concerning failing schools could give Rochester schools Superintendent Bolgen Vargas substantially more authority at a time when he’s at serious odds with the school board over management. Though it’s still unclear, the law appears to give Vargas the ability to make sweeping decisions to improve failing schools, including […]
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Busing the kids
To come up with a real solution to the fights, we have to address their roots. And nobody wants to do that.
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Feedback 3/25
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