This is a corrected version of this blog April 15, 2014 at 8:45 a.m. Rochester schools Superintendent Bolgen Vargas is looking for a partner to run East High School. Working with an educational partner organization is one of the options the State Education Department gave the school district to rehabilitate the failing high school. The […]
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Has the city school district hit bottom?
In light of threats from state officials about closing failing schools and taking control of failing districts, many people wonder if the Rochester school district has finally hit bottom. Were the last round of state exams the worst of it? And should we lo ok for student achievement to begin inching upward? That’s been the general […]
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Neighbors rally to save School 10
Parents, residents, and members of several southwest city neighborhoods are waiting to hear schools Superintendent Bolgen Vargas’s latest recommendation to the school board regarding Schools 10 and 1. They held a rally last night at School 10, also known as Dr. Walter Cooper Academy, to protest Vargas’s proposal to close the school. Vargas proposed combining […]
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Is it art or is it anarchy?
Matthew Friday, local artist and member of the national antagonistic group the Society for the Representation of Society, has for a long time feared the marginalization of art. So eight years ago Friday, then a student and now an art professor at SUNY Oswego, and various other art, theater, and music students thought they’d cause […]
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Reader feedback 2.23.05
School closings, Ohio and the presidency, nukes and us
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‘Don’t close my school’
This is an emotional time in Rochester neighborhoods. The school district, facing a continual drop in enrollment and a tight budget, is going to close several elementary schools. They’ll come from a list of 16 schools whose buildings qualify because of their enrollment, physical condition, and some other criteria. The school our children attended, […]
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The incredible shrinking district
When the city school district held a series of public forums last fall to put together a list of school-closing criteria, almost nobody showed. That surprised officials at the time, but no one’s surprised by the amount of attention being paid now that those criteria are being implemented. Facing permanently declining enrollment, the district embarked […]
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Closing time for city schools
Tucked away between Hickory and Gregory Streets in the city’s South Wedge neighborhood sits a beautifully restored school. Students no longer attend classes here, though. The building’s classrooms have been given new life as upscale condominiums. What was formerly an administrator’s office was recently advertised for a price just south of six figures. Reused buildings […]
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Lesson plan
Next time a city school closes, critics will be harder pressed to cry foul. At least that’s what RochesterCitySchool District officials are hoping. In an effort to diminish the affect of politics on school operation — especially as the school closing process gets underway — district officials are cooking up a strategic plan. Or, to […]
