Rochester City School District
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Students, teachers and staff within the Rochester City School District have organized another round of protests this week regarding the massive budget cuts and layoffs within the district. Let’s recap… RCSD and the Board of Education have been battling an ongoing budget crisis for some months now. With the deficit growing to $30 million, city […]
Written by Jasmine This week we learned about the mid-year staff cuts for the Rochester City School District. In order to tame a $30 million budget deficit, the district plans to layoff more than 150 RCSD employees. According to the Rochester Teacher’s Association, layoffs will include 152 teachers, 32 non-teaching employees, 22 paraprofessionals and 12 administrators. […]
Written by Jasmine Students at Edison Career and Technology High School are mourning the loss of a fellow student who’s life was cut suddenly short on Tuesday. According to Rochester City School District officials, the 16-year-old student, whose name has not yet been released, collapsed during a physical education class and was taken to Strong […]
Written by Jasmine Thanks to the Rochester City School District, STEAM Day 2019 is the first, hopefully of many, student convention focused on introducing students to all the different careers they can pursue in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. This convention, located at Sibley Square in downtown Rochester, brought in more than 30 different […]
Mayor Lovely A. Warren announced that the City will continue its second year of J.U.S.T. L.A.W., an initiative designed to educate city students about the criminal justice system and provide those who administer the law with a glimpse of the youths’ perception of them. “Last year, we had more than 18 schools and seven visiting […]
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Written by Jasmine If you have been keeping up with the Rochester City School District budget gap saga, then you’d know the future of our schools is looking bleak. So much so that a federal investigation was opened this past Monday to look into the mysterious $30 million budget deficit. Even the New York state […]
Federal Investigators intercepted two calls from an inmate in Pennsylvania at Allenwood Correctional Facility after routine monitoring of phone calls. The recorded calls involved information about a hit that was placed on a student from Rochester.
The Rochester City School District Distinguished Educator Jaime Aquino resigned Friday to pursue other professional opportunities. In the email to announce Aquino was resigning the State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said the district’s distinguished educator’s quarterly report outlined some major issues that continue to “hamper the district’s progress” He said “the district pays little attention to […]
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