GUEST OPINION
COVID vaccine mandates clear key legal hurdle
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The Department of Justice this week issued an opinion stating that emergency use authorization is not sufficient to prohibit employers from requiring workers to get vaccinated.
Government & Politics
Lawmakers agree on plan to pursue ethics reform
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The bipartisan compromise, which calls for an independent commission to review and recommend changes, signals a truce between Republicans and Democrats allied with County Executive Adam Bello.
Beaconomics
Making sense of money: Part 1
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Banks’ dominance of financial transactions has perpetuated a system that is relatively slow and expensive. But change is coming.
Health & Science
Berk pens book with insights from a life-altering injury
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In a new book, former URMC CEO Bradford Berk M.D. writes about the 2009 bike accident that left him a quadriplegic and what he has learned about dealing with grief and trauma from acute neurological injury.
Justice & Public Safety
Warren faces felony charges
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Rochester’s mayor and two others were indicted by a grand jury for campaign finance violations allegedly committed during the last city mayoral race.
Education
Local colleges recognized for voter participation
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As part of the national All in Campus Democracy Challenge, they boosted student voting rates in the 2018 midterm elections.
Rochester education crisis
Why charter schools are part of the solution
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In the latest statewide public school test results, New York’s charter schools once again outperformed their local school districts as well as the state as a whole. To those who oppose the charter school movement, here’s simple question: “What is your proposed solution to the urban education crisis?”
Beaconomics
Making sense of the graduation rate
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Darrell Huff’s “How to Lie with Statistics” was an instant classic following its publication in 1954. Do widely quoted figures on K-12 education tell the whole story?
Community
RIT’s decisive moment
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This year marks a half-century since RIT relocated from downtown to Henrietta. What began as a move born of necessity paved the way to realize a more modern, progressive vision for the institute.
Policy Wonk
Rochester schools: If all are empowered, none are empowered
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If there is a single barrier to district improvement, it is the diffusion of power. Well-intentioned empowerment of students, parents and teachers leaves little power for school leaders.