by Matt Lavonas | Apr 10, 2018 | News
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...
by Matt Lavonas | Mar 26, 2018 | News
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...
by Matt Lavonas | Mar 19, 2018 | News
ROCHESTER N.Y. — The Rochester City School District’s Board of Education held a special meeting Thursday evening, following the death of Trevyan Rowe, 14. He was a School 12 student, found in the Genesee River after a four day investigation. Board president Van...
by Matt Lavonas | Mar 13, 2018 | News
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...
by Matt Lavonas | Feb 7, 2018 | News
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...
by Matt Lavonas | Jan 26, 2018 | News
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...
