If the Rochester School District’s internal problems were fixed, student achievement would increase. But then there are the external problems.
Rochester student achievement
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School 41’s future uncertain
The Rochester school board is once again faced with the question of what to do with one of its lowest performing schools. School 41, in the Kodak Park area, was one of two statewide that didn’t meet performance goals last year. (Buffalo school district’s Build Academy was the other.) Last week State Education Commissioner MaryEllen […]
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State of the children report shows gains, struggles
Compared to last year, more City of Rochester 4-year-olds are enrolled in pre-k programs, more 3- year-olds have received comprehensive early intervention screenings, and more city high school students have applied for college financial aid. These are some of the gains highlighted by ROC the Future’s annual State of the Children report. The coalition tracks […]
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Poverty “excuse” gets a reprieve
The subject of school integration came up several months ago while I was researching a story. The idea of a metro school system, though heralded by many as one of the most promising ways to improve student performance in Rochester’s schools, was simultaneously dismissed by the people I was with. “Impossible,” “Will never happen,” and […]
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School district, City Hall step up truancy reduction efforts
Many Rochesterians strongly supported mayoral control. They didn’t get it, but in an odd turn of events, they may have received something better: a strong working relationship between City Hall and the city school district. That point couldn’t have been clearer at a press conference earlier today. Vargas, flanked by Mayor Tom Richards and United […]
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Black ministers say parents and students need to make school highest priority
At roughly the same time yesterday that President Obama was swinging through Upstate New York to talk about education, a group of Rochester’s African-American ministers were having their own press event about problems within the city school district. Nearly a dozen ministers from the Baptist Ministers’ Alliance and the Rochester Ministers’ at Large aired their […]
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Finding the readers within
Jose Valentin, a small boy with big brown eyes behind thin wire glasses, liked the summer reading clinic at Nazareth College so much that he never missed a day. On the one morning he was late because he missed his bus, his teachers immediately began to worry. But staying home was not an option. Valentin […]
