by Matt Lavonas | May 12, 2020 | Adam's Updates, News
Colleagues, Here’s a brief update on some current issues: – Planned Layoffs. The school board approved eliminating 198 teacher positions for the next school year in the following tenure areas: 49 Elementary; 28 Reading; 21 Speech and Language; 21 ESOL; 20...
by Matt Lavonas | May 11, 2020 | News
—Taylor Callery for Education WeekBy Daarel Burnette IIMay 8, 2020 Almost half of the nation’s 13,000 school districts may be forced to make the deepest cuts to education spending in a generation—slashing programs and laying off hundreds of thousands of...
by Matt Lavonas | May 4, 2020 | News
Colleagues, I urge you to join this community-wide advocacy campaign on behalf of our students and their educators. Adam Begin forwarded message:Attention Students, Parents, Educators, and Community members: The Rochester Community Coalition to Save Our Schools...
by Matt Lavonas | Apr 30, 2020 | Adam's Updates
Colleagues, As we soon conclude yet another week of remote teaching and learning, here are some reminders and also an update on some current issues confronting us and our students: – RCSD Budget Proposal. Last Tuesday, the Board of Education received a revised...
by Matt Lavonas | Apr 24, 2020 | News
A message from Joe Zuniga, Scholarship Committee Chairperson: The application deadline for the Peter Castle, Gordon Dorway, Ken Silvio and the Son or Daughter of a RTA member scholarships have been extended due the COVID-19 virus quarantine. The applications have been...