rochester city school board
There’s going to be several meetings held this week to address the RCSD issue with the high number of students missing school. Reports say 50% of the district’s 22,000 students are considered chronically absent. The district’s board recently took a closer look at why so many students are missing school from changing attitudes around sick […]
After the announcement of the former Superintendent of the Rochester City School District Dr. Lesli Myers-Small will be leaving ahead of the end of her contract, the Rochester City School Board has announced their new superintendent. Effective immediately, Dr. Carmine Peluso will be the new acting superintendent of the district. Dr. Peluso is entering his […]
With the school year coming to a start, it was no secret that there is a bus driver shortage. This caused delays in the school year as the majority of the students from the Rochester City School District depend on bus transportation. Superintendent Dr. Lesli Myers-Small said that a total of nine additional drivers resigned […]
Thursday night, the Rochester City School Board decided whether or not to rename a local school after the city’s first Black school principal, Alice Holloway Young. Right now, the school is named after the founding father Nathaniel Rochester. However, his past has some concerned. Rochester was a slave owner and with such a diverse student […]
The Rochester City School Board unanimously agreed to offer retirement incentives in response to the Rochester City School District’s proposed 2019- 2020 budget, which called for 326 positions to be cut. In order for the plan to be put into action 110 teachers would have to take the incentive, so far 111 have done so. President […]
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