by Matt Lavonas | May 21, 2020 | News
New York State Education Department Interim Commissioner Shannon Tahoe today announced the appointment of Dr. Shelley Jallow as the State Monitor for the Rochester City School District. Recently enacted legislation requires the Commissioner to appoint one monitor for...
by Matt Lavonas | May 21, 2020 | News
An RCSD employee support group facilitated by a therapist Paul Ackers LMSW, will be offering two virtual sessions on May 28th and June 1st. With the reopening of NYS comes a lot of stress and uncertainty and sessions will look to provide assistance and counseling to...
by Matt Lavonas | May 16, 2020 | News
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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...