Colleagues, The Rochester City School District is really bad with math. First, they announced a budget deficit of $199M. More recently, they are poised to “right-size” the District because they claim, we could get by with half the teachers we now have. Neither of these calculations is either true or realistic. Soon after the District went public on October 20th with their wildly inflated budget deficit projection, we met with Superintendent Myers Small, RCSD’s Finance Director Carleen Pierce and the State-appointed Monitor Shelley Jallow to present them with reasons for disputing their exaggerated deficit projection. They failed to defend their indefensible position. Subsequently, and in conjunction with the unions representing non-teaching employees (BENTE), paraprofessionals (RAP) and school administrators (ASAR), we issued an Open Letter to the Board of Education accusing the District of manufacturing this crisis. We backed up our position by sharing with them a summary analysis...