Board members and a referendum calling for state intervention are on the November ballot. Meanwhile, the district’s distinguished educator has quit and the state education commissioner who appointed him plans to leave. What’s next?
Policy Wonk
Lessons from other cities: School quality as an equity strategy
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Rochester was chosen by the “Reinventing America’s Schools” project of the Progressive Policy Institute as one of eight cities to share best practices on improving urban education. A May 30 workshop addressed the challenge posed by Rochester public education by introducing participants in promising reform models.
GUEST OPINION
Why progressive education reform is needed
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New York’s obsession with standardized testing for high-stakes purposes of judging individual students, teachers and schools must change.
Education
Two approaches to RCSD change
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The panels at the Rochester Beacon’s May 13 forum explored both districtwide intervention and school-by-school initiatives. Videos of their detailed discussions are now online.
Education
Readers respond to the Beacon’s education forum
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The May 13 event focused on two levels of intervention in the city schools to improve their performance: state action and local initiative empowering individual schools.
Education
The search for RCSD solutions
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A Rochester Beacon forum this week on ways to fix the city schools drew a packed house. “There are no silver bullets,” keynote speaker Christopher Cerf said. “The key is implementing 100 one percent solutions.”
Education
Rochester City School District gets new chief
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Terry Dade, who currently serves as an assistant superintendent of the Fairfax County, Va. Schools, is expected to join July 1, at the start of city’s and school district’s fiscal year.
GUEST OPINION
Community schools remove barriers to learning
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Community schools are both places and a strategy for organizing resources around children, families and neighbors. School No. 17 is proof of what these schools can accomplish in Rochester.
GUEST OPINION
The positive trajectory of the UR-East High partnership
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The Educational Partnership Organization’s significant investment in East High went beyond financial resources. It involved highly qualified teachers and staff with the heart and fortitude to do the work and to reexamine their own practices, resulting in a program that aligns with a clear vision for academic achievement and preparation of scholars for college and career.
GUEST OPINION
Solving the RCSD crisis requires collective change
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Whenever a student in our city falls behind, it is a failure that our entire community shares, and we as a community must come together behind the efforts of ROC the Future to forge a solution.
Education
Questions await the RCSD superintendent finalists
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The superintendent candidate forum’s format appears to have been designed to ensure that students, parents and RCSD employees as well as other community members are heard equally. The event’s tightly controlled format may not satisfy attendees hoping to directly quiz the candidates, however.