by Matt Lavonas | Apr 4, 2019 | News
by Justin Murphy Harry Kennedy discusses the retention rate of teachers in city schools. Wochit The Rochester City School District will offer $50,000 retirement bonuses to veteran teachers, part of an effort to find savings in a difficult budget year. The...
by Matt Lavonas | Mar 22, 2019 | News
By Tim Louis Macaluso Rochester’s Interim Superintendent, Daniel Lowengard, presented his proposed budget for next year to the school board yesterday: $925 million, a slight increase over this year’s $922 million. But balancing the budget required $40...
by Matt Lavonas | Feb 28, 2019 | News
by Will Astor In the mid-1980s, I sat in on an interview of Rochester Mayor Thomas Ryan Jr. with Mary Anna Towler, the editor of City Newspaper, where I was then a reporter. She asked: What was Ryan’s vision for the city? In response, the taciturn Ryan at first looked...
by Matt Lavonas | Feb 8, 2019 | News
TO: All Probationary/Tenured Teachers RE: 2019-2020 ONLINE VOLUNTARY TRANSFER In accordance with Section 24 (Vacancies and Transfers) of the contractual agreement between the Rochester City School District...
by Matt Lavonas | Feb 1, 2019 | News
RCSD Superintendent Barbara Deane-Williams, who retired from the district as of Jan. 31CREDIT JAMES BROWN / WXXI NEWS by James Brown After less than three years on the job, Barbara Deane-Williams is retiring as superintendent of the Rochester City School District. Her...
by Matt Lavonas | Dec 19, 2018 | News
by Ginny Ryan (WHAM photo) AA Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) – In a Rochester 6th grade classroom Tuesday, a lesson involving math and reading became one about the spirit of this season. Behind it is all was a teacher who wanted to do more for her students. Lora Abbott,...
