Adam’s Update (3.27.20)
Colleagues, The newly proposed Rochester City School budget for the 2020-2021 school year targets programs for our most vulnerable students such as Special Education, the Bilingual Academy and the Young Mothers Program. It also calls for significant reductions of...
Adam’s Update (3.23.20)
Colleagues, I hope that you are staying healthy and taking good care of yourselves and your your loved ones. This update is intended to keep you informed about some current work-related issues and to respond to some frequently asked questions that we are receiving: -...
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Adam’s Update (5.11.20) Planned Layoffs, Negotiations, Continued Learning, ELT, Evaluations, School Closures, Rochester Teachers Care
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 Special...
Devastated Budgets and Widening Inequities: How the Coronavirus Collapse Will Impact Schools
—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...
ROC-SOS Letter & Digital Postcards
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...
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2026-27 Oracle/Payroll Issue Info Form
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Filing Notice of Claim with the RCSD
If you are going to resign from the District, NYS law requires a notice of 30 calendar days (including weekends and holidays) from the time you file your resignation letter until your last day with the district. The resignation link from the District can be found here.(You must be signed into your District Google account)
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