Officials of the Rochester City School District faced intensive questioning from the City Council last night as School Superintendent Terry Dade tried to explain how the district overspent by some $30 million. Council’s finance committee called the meeting over concerns about how the city’s $119 million annual contribution to city schools is being spent. Council […]
The Rochester City Council has approved a measure calling on the state to take over financial management of the Rochester City School District. The vote in a special meeting Monday afternoon was eight-to-nothing with one abstention (a councilmember who works for the city schools). The measure was worked out over the weekend by Mayor […]
Rochester School Superintendent Terry Dade had a couple of things to tell reporters in a news conference Thursday afternoon: One, the school district’s deficit is $30 million, not $50 million as feared. Two, that’s bad enough that some serious decisions will have to be made in the coming weeks to deal with it. Third, […]