We welcome your comments. Send them to feedback@rochester-citynews.com, with your name; city, town, or village; and daytime phone number for verification. We edit selections for publication, and we don’t publish comments sent to other media. The challenges of building affordable housing I read Tim Louis Macaluso’s article, “New Housing Fuels Hope and Fears” – about […]
Rochester teachers union
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Another schools ‘solution’ that avoids the big issue
We keep trying to fix the problems in Rochester schools. But none of the fixes address the cause.
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Superintendent Vargas needs union help, and more
It’s great that Rochester’s business community leaders are concerned about the academic performance of city school students. Sandy Parker, CEO of the Rochester Business Alliance, and Dutch Summers, chair of Jasco, said in last Sunday’s Democrat and Chronicle that they are disturbed by the Association of Supervisors and Administrators’ recent vote of “no confidence” in Superintendent Bolgen Vargas. […]
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The test score rage: rhetoric versus reform
Well, that gave everybody something to talk about, didn’t it? State education officials released school-district scores on standardized tests last week, and the news was awful. Only 31 percent of the state’s students met or exceeded the “proficiency” standard for math. And only 31.1 percent of them met the English standard. And among the large […]
