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Award Winning RCSD Teachers
Congratulations to Jason Millington and Jeff Wujcik for winning the New York Association for Continuing Community Education 2018 Teacher of the Year Award Mr. Jason Millington Mr. Jeff Wujcik The Office of Adult and Career Education Services (OACES), an adult...
read moreAdam’s Update (4/15/18)
Colleagues, Here’s a brief update on some current issues: - Contract Approved. By a 6-0 vote, the Board of Education ratified the one-year extension of our collective bargaining agreement. The pact was approved by teachers last month with 99% voting in favor. All...
read moreAir Force Association ~ Teacher of the Year
Rochester Teachers Association and Air Force Chapter 308 have joined “forces” to recognize up to 2 classroom teachers for their accomplishments and achievements in exciting K-12 students about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Any RTA Representative...
read more‘Raise the Age,’ Now Law in New York, Is Still a Subject of Debate
ALBANY — Much of the praise for the Raise the Age initiative, which was passed by the New York Legislature over the weekend, was effusive, with various political factions claiming it as their own victory and its supporters calling it a historic protection for juvenile...
read moreAfter Hurricane Maria: Rochester absorbs more displaced students than other NY districts
Nearly 2,300 students displaced from Puerto Rico have entered New York schools. 559 of those students came to Rochester, the most of any district in the state. Wochit ALBANY - When Hilda Rosario Escher visited her family in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico in November,...
read moreAdam’s Update (3/19/18)
Colleagues, Here’s a brief update on several issues: - Grieving Trevyan Rowe. All Rochester teachers join with the entire community, and especially with Trevyan’s family, teachers and friends, in our sadness about his tragic death. We are determined to do all we can...
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School board members promise to hold district accountable in Rowe disappearance
The Rochester City School District is under scrutiny after the disappearance and death of 14-year-old student Trevyan Rowe. Eight hours passed between Trevyan's disappearance and the 911 call to report him missing. Rochester School Board members told 13WHAM they do...
Rochester City School District special education chief abruptly quits position
by Justin Murphy Rochester City School District special education chief Theresa Wood quit abruptly Monday, just two months after assuming leadership of the district's most urgent area of need. RCSD hired Wood effective Dec. 1, luring her out of retirement from...
RCSD announces ‘Path Forward,’ floats Urban-Suburban SOTA elementary
by Justin Murphy| The Rochester City School District Thursday unveiled a sweeping set of proposals that would rearrange the academic careers of future city children and move toward a more equitable distribution of students, both inside the district and among its...
Educators file amicus brief with Supreme Court in Janus v. AFSCME
By NEA TweetShareGoogle+Email Commentary: WASHINGTON — The National Education Association and the American Association of University Professors submitted an amicus brief today with the Supreme Court in the case of Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31. The National Right to...
Gates-Chili parents pushing for cameras in classrooms
From WHEC.com Cameras are everywhere, but should they be in school classrooms? A Gates-Chili couple is fighting for legislation to make cameras in every classroom across the state mandatory. Ted and Jenna Wolfley believe cameras are the only way to help vulnerable...
DeVos signs off on Maryland education plan opposed by Maryland Govenor Hogan
By The Associated Press In this Sept. 7, 2017, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at George Mason University Arlington, Va., campus. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has approved Maryland’s...
RCSD allowing All City high school students to move locations amidst protests
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Students and parents from Rochester Prep and All City high school, concerned over the presence of Trichloroethene, have successfully pushed the two schools to move locations. After parents and students learned of the presence of a chemical called TCE...
Rochester Prep to leave St. Paul site; RCSD may follow by Justin Murphy
Rochester Prep High School students protest toxics and rusty water in their school outside the Rochester City School District office on Broad Street. They say the school district knew about the poor building conditions. UPDATE 9:36 A.M. FRIDAY: Rochester Prep...
Rochester schools remain short-staffed, under-trained in special education by Justin Murphy
Three weeks into this school year, special education reviews and paperwork were backing up in Rochester schools after the district failed to adequately train administrators on a new, important set of responsibilities. Children with special needs weren't getting the...
Give Teachers a Voice in Education Reform
Four principles for a more robust public education system By Adam Urbanski, Tom Alves & Ellen Bernstein November 14, 2017 Commentary In the cluttered world of education ideas, often the most strident or well-funded voices get the most attention. Over the last two...
Read more“Scope of problem and long lasting effects. Child abuse and neglect constitute a threat to the health and well-being of our most vulnerable population: children.”
Dinolfo to provide more child abuse prevention funds
by Meaghan M. McDermott, @meagmcPublished 1:56 p.m. ET Nov. 13, 2017 | The most effective way to combat child abuse is to prevent it from happening at all. That's the rationale behind a push by a coalition of local faith leaders, physicians, parents and child...
New York Voters Reject a Constitutional Convention
By Jesse McKinley Nov. 7, 2017 ALBANY — New York voters gave a resounding thumbs down to a constitutional convention on Tuesday, once again rejecting an opportunity to open the state’s founding document to a full-scale overhaul after opponents stoked...
RCSD has Two of the Top 5 Elementary Schools as per Quality Index
Monroe County's best school? It's in the city, our exclusive Quality Index shows By Justin Murphy, @citizenmurphy The last bell of the day rang at 3 p.m. and the 300 students at Francis Parker School 23, in Rochester’s Park Avenue neighborhood, spilled out onto the...