remote learning

The Rochester City School District is going to remote learning starting on Thursday. The district plans to return to in-person learning on Jan. 11 but will give an update by noon on January 10th. Not enough staff and substitute teachers to continue in-person learning is the reason RCSD is switching to remote at this time. […]

Sources say that the new teaching style that the pandemic has forced upon the education system is turning students away from wanting to be come teachers. Teachers are already in short supply in the US and the numbers show that they will continue to be so. What was once a cut and dry profession now […]

RCSD Students will be learning remotely at School No. 29 for the rest of this week due to positive COVID-19 cases. The school will be closed for deep cleaning of the building and for health officials to complete contact tracing. There were eight positive COVID-19 cases reported over the last month. The positive cases were […]

New York State Assembly workers are introducing a new piece of legislation that aims to assist working parents who’s children are remote learning. “This would be aligned with the current paid family law. Parents would be able to take up to 12 weeks of paid leave, which is about two-thirds of the wage you have,” […]

There’s no end in sight for Rochester City School District parents and students struggling with remote learning. Just before the start of the 2020 School Year, RCSD announced that kids would be kept out of the classroom for the first 10 weeks, due to COVID concerns. On Thursday, Superintendent Meyers-Small announced that in-person classes are […]

Is this school district right or wrong for this? Children from Auburn, New York are being removed from school, after their father took them out of town for vacation. The dad said he took the kids to Missouri and decided to stay a little longer. The children are still attending their remote learning sessions while […]

According to a poll from USA Today 1 out of 5 teachers say, they don’t see themselves back in the classroom if schools reopen by the Fall. The report continues, that the number of teachers claiming they will not return is higher when it comes to teachers ages 55 and older- 1 out of 4 […]

The Rochester Area Community Foundation has announced that it will aid local school districts by distributing grant money from the COVID Education Fund created in April by RACF’s Board of Directors. The RACF has earmarked the money for students who need computers and internet access from home. According to the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, a […]