United Christian Leadership Ministry and the Take It Down Group will rally outside of the County Office Building, 39 West Main Street, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. The groups want city and county officials to remove a panel of the Dentzel Carousel at Ontario Beach Park. The panel is a pickaninny caricature of two black […]
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Climate change: Lowering temperatures at RCSD
Stephne Givens, then 13, stepped off the bus in front of Jefferson Middle School on the morning of September 21, 1995. Within minutes, an argument broke out, and Givens was fatally stabbed in the neck by a 12-year-old school mate. Givens’ brutal death shocked the country. And some Rochester school officials say that the killing […]
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Rethinking school discipline
A recent New York Times editorial looked at the growing intolerance toward “zero tolerance” school disciplinary policies. Since the 1990’s, school districts across the country have been ratcheting up the punishment, including suspensions for what are often minor infractions. A three-year-old Texas study showed that nearly six in 10 public school students were suspended at […]
