U.S. Census Bureau figures show nearly half the children in the Rochester City School District live in poverty. The newly released study shows that Rochester is the second most poverty stricken district in the United States, with only the city of Detroit ranking worse. Buffalo comes in third, just slightly better off than Rochester. The […]
Rochester City School District officials say a paraprofessional at School #15 has been fired for making a racist post on Facebook. The school’s principal says contract employee Cassandra Elizabeth Sutton was working as a substitute prekindergarten paraprofessional. The comments discovered on her Facebook page included use of the “N” word and an obscenity-laced description of […]
A judge’s decision means school modernization work can go forward at Monroe High School in Rochester without the controversial Project Labor Agreement. State Supreme Court Justice John Ark ruled it’s in the best interest of the students that Phase 2 of the $1.3 billion Rochester Schools Modernization Plan gets underway. But Judge Ark also […]