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King uses Rochester as example in fight with Buffalo school leaders

President Obama’s visit may be enough to temporarily shift Buffalo’s attention away from the fairly public brawl between Buffalo schools Superintendent Pamela Brown, the school board, the teachers union, and State Education Commissioner John King. King hasrejected several attempts that the district has made at coming up with turnaround plans for two of Buffalo’s worst […]

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Improvement plans due

The State Education Department issued a report last year that identified persistently low-performing schools and school districts. Priority schools are those with the lowest achievement, and focus schools are those at risk of becoming priority schools if preventive measures aren’t taken. The SED ranked Rochester’s schools among the worst of the worst. Out of the […]

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