Tag Archives: Education
EDUCATION: Battle over high-stakes testing comes to RCSD
This is a corrected version of this story. BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO PDF: Standardized testing resolution Rochester school board member Mary Adams wants to eliminate high-stakes standardized testing in the school district. Her proposal (above) will be voted on at next month’s board meeting. High stakes testing was a main feature of the Bush administration’s […]
READER FEEDBACK: 8/15/12
EDUCATION: Malgieri and Urbanski Your August 1 article re. new appointments to the Rochester school district administration once again demonstrates one of the major impediments to better education in Rochester (“Vargas Heats Things Up”). Adam Urbanski does not consider Patty Malgieri “a friend of public education‚” based on his experience with her at the Center […]
EDUCATION: Vargas confident in Malgieri hire
BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO Rochester schools Superintendent Bolgen Vargas says he hired Patricia Malgieri because of what he’s heard from parents almost daily during the last year. “They’re saying their children have less opportunity today than they did a decade ago,” he says. “It saddens me daily that we have thousands of children who have […]
EDUCATION: [UPDATED] Rochester school district students slip in math and English
BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO UPDATE: Rochester schools Superintendent Bolgen Vargas says several factors are to blame for the flat trajectory of student performance on state tests over the last three years. The state tests have become more difficult, he said at a press conference this afternoon, but Rochester students are not getting the extra instruction […]
EDUCATION: Meeting set to decide School 16′s fate
This story includes a new date and time for the School 16 school board meeting. BY CHRISTINE CARRIE FIEN The Rochester school board will meet at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 26, to decide the short-term fate of School 16. The long-term future of the Post Avenue school will be decided in the context of […]
