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Yesterday, the University of Rochester’s Coronavirus University Restart Team announced that all undergraduate and graduate students will be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine for the fall of 2021. There will be no remote instruction unless they are an international student who is unable to return to campus. By requiring students to receive the vaccine, […]
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 […]
This week thousands of students in Pre-K through 6th grade in the Rochester City School District will be heading back to in-person learning two days a week. This is part of RCSD’s Phase 2 of its reopening plan. Phase 1, which started last month, involved about 300 students with special needs returning to in-person learning […]
Students at St. John Fisher are returning to campus to start the spring semester classes, but to make sure everyone is safe, they must get a COVID-19 test. Students have to get tested before returning to campus and then once a week via an appointment based drive through center that gives results in around 15 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
You ever read a news story and say to yourself this just can’t be real? So, Sight posted a news story that students in Tuscaloosa, Alabama were intentionally going to parties knowing they have COVID-19. Welp! There has been a development with that story. The reason why they were attending the parties is that they […]
Schools are expected to have their reopening plans submitted to Albany by the end of this week. The state has outlined its own recommendations for students who are medically vulnerable or live with adults with underlying health conditions and says that they should continue learning remotely. This list describes what it means by underlying health […]
The new Rochester City School District Superintendent, Lesli Myers-Small, announced a support system to help students and families. The district is providing social-emotional support. Myers-Small said in a letter to families, “While I am always humbled and inspired by our students’ strength and resilience, I also understand that now more than ever, we must provide […]