The State Education Department says Rochester’s high school graduation rate improved from 2012 to 2013, going from about 48 percent to nearly 52 percent. That’s an improvement of more than four percentage points. All of the state’s “Big 5” city school districts except for Syracuse reported improvements, with Rochester and Yonkers posting the biggest. […]
Parents and students from the Rochester City Prep Charter School walked out of classes and marched to the Rochester School District building today, after discovering that their building sits on top of groundwater contaminated by toxic industrial solvents. The school leases space from the CSD in a former Bausch and Lomb building which was […]
Rochester Police have charged a Rochester School District paraprofessional with third degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. Police say 51-year-old Mariano Velazquez of Rochester worked at Edison Career and Technology High School since the fall of 2015. But his arrest is related to an incident that happened in early 2015 when […]