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Today is the last day in the extension that RCSD gave for a parent survey that asks about returning to in person learning in 2021. The district needs all the parents to respond by today, December 11. On Wednesday, 85% of elementary students were accounted for but only 69% of middle and high school students […]
Good news for Rochester City School District and its students. We have received calls and texts from parents about issues with the internet students have been dealing with. Because of the internet issues, a few organizations donated money to help students of the RCSD. The Rochester City School District is fully remote so having access […]
The Rochester City School District is about to finish its first fully remote semester and the parents are saying that they are looking forward to the hybrid learning model that’s just around the corner. WROC interview a parent named Maurice Haskins who has two children in the school district. He had some things to say […]
In February, the Rochester City School District plans on allowing some students to return to school, following a plan that was presented by the Superintendent, Lesli Meyers-Small. Meyers-Small showed the school board her ideas on Thursday and suggested that elementary students should be allowed to return to school in February, followed by students in grades […]
When the government lays the rules down for equal opportunity in order for a large non minority company to be rewarded a government contract, a lot of times they bend those rules to get around them. A Rochester contractor will have to pay $200,000 after falsely claiming they have met diversity requirements in order to […]
Last year, the Rochester City School District distributed around 10,000 MiFi hot spot devices with 10 gigabytes of data a month. The was intended to be a supplemental resource for school or library activity, but ever since COVID-19 hit, many students have become completely reliant on them in order to attend class. Now that school […]
The Rochester City School District released their plans to reopen for this next school year. Dr. Lesli C. Myers-Smalls sent out a letter Monday addressing the districts reopening and the School Year 2020-2021: RSCD Together document. To read her letter click here. Prior to the RCSD Together plan, the district asked for input from the […]
At last night’s meeting Rochester City School District Superintendent Lesli Myers-Small explained the proposed hybrid model plan for reopening schools. Grades five through twelve will be remote; pre-K through fouth grade will split into two groups and one group having in-person lessons on Mondays and Tuesday, and the second group having in-person lessons on Thursdays […]
Dr. Lesli Myers-Small, the Rochester City School District Superintendent, announced Tuesday that the district will be getting an additional 20% cut in State funding. This brings the total loss to $128 million. It’s estimated that food and transportation cuts will be around $6 million. The district was already facing a $74 million budget gap for […]
Yesterday during the first parent forum of the 2020-2021 school year the zoom stream got hacked. More than 100 families in the RCSD were attending the online forum. Superintendent Leslie Myers-Small terminated the online forum when she saw “racist comments and hurtful symbols” appearing on the screen. RCSD released an apology stating they had to […]
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