Voters in the Pittsford Central School District shot down an attempt to exceed the state’s property tax cap in Tuesday’s voting, partly in order to fund full-day kindergarten. A 60 percent supermajority was needed to override New York’s two percent property growth cap. They missed it by a little less than 500 votes: 3,687 yes […]
It was back to school today for most Rochester-area students, apart from a couple of buildings where power was still lacking or damage from the hurricane-force winds still being fixed. In Greece, Autumn Lane Elementary School remains without power and was closed today. The rest of the district was in session, including Arcadia Middle and […]
The new superintendent of the Rochester City Schools has a familiar face. She’s former Greece Central superintendent Barbara Deane-Williams…named this afternoon after a special meeting of the Rochester Board of Education. Deane-Williams says her immediate priorities are making sure city schools are ready to hit the ground running in the fall…and then what she calls […]