Nearly $10 million in special funding is on its way from the State Education Department to the Rochester City School District.
It’s part of $95 million in School Improvement Grants being awarded to 39 priority schools across the state; schools that were ordered to work out plans to transform themselves so the schools will, hopefully, be in good academic standing within three years. Each “priority school” has to pick from one of half-a-dozen turnaround plans that have succeeded elsewhere and apply the funding to make it happen.
In Rochester, four city schools are getting grants of $2.5 million or a little less. Schools #41, 19 and 10 plus the Integrated Arts and Technology High School will get the funding to put their plans into motion.