Tag Archives: Rochester school board
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 […]
URBAN JOURNAL: The City School District – Can this system work?
BY MARY ANNA TOWLER “Who is in charge of America’s urban schools? Everyone and no one. We Americans love divided government. Distrustful of power, we established a constitution with three branches of government, each designed to check the power of the others. “We have done the same thing with our schools. What could be more […]
NEWS BLOG: The week ahead – police oversight report, possible Gantt primary ruling, monthly school board meeting
The group studying how Rochester oversees its police department will present the culmination of a year’s work this Thursday, August 23. The group, led by City Council member Adam McFadden and Police Chief James Sheppard, got off to a rocky start, but has largely flown under the radar since. Some critics had said group membership […]
NEWS BLOG: Do you take this chief of staff for better, for worse?
BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO Rochester school board members who are upset that Superintendent Bolgen Vargas hired a district critic still haven’t been able to meet with her. The board’s staff tried to coordinate some meetings with Vargas’s new chief of staff, Patty Malgieri, to discuss her role and her criticism of the district when she […]
Malgieri contract under fire – and so is Vargas
BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO Since being named Rochester schools superintendent in April, Bolgen Vargas has been extremely popular with most school board members. But the honeymoon is over. In a special meeting last night, the board went into executive session to discuss Vargas’s decision to hire former deputy mayor Patricia Malgieri. And it didn’t go […]
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 […]
School board will have ‘heart to heart’ with superintendent over Malgieri hire
BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO Rochester school board member Van White says he plans to write to Superintendent Bolgen Vargas asking for a meeting with Patricia Malgieri, Vargas’ newly hired chief of staff. White says he wants to clear up concerns he has over some of Malgieri’s past positions on the school district. Vargas does not […]
URBAN JOURNAL: Vargas heats things up
BY MARY ANNA TOWLER Things have been relatively quiet at the Rochester school district this summer. That ended over the weekend, though, with a letter from Superintendent Bolgen Vargas to school board members, telling them he had hired two new administrators – one of them a longtime district critic. Patty Malgieri – former Rochester deputy […]
EDUCATION: School board ok’s closing School 16 – but only temporarily
BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO The Rochester school board voted 6 to 0 last night (with board member Cynthia Elliott absent) to close School 16 in the 19th Ward, but only for repairs. It will re-open after repairs are completed. In the interim, kindergarten through eighth-grade classes will be housed at Freddie Thomas High School in […]
NEWS BLOG: Rochester district’s website gets new look
BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO The Rochester school district has an unenviable communications challenge. School officials have a slew of audiences, many with different needs and interests. And the district’s website hasn’t been a particularly helpful communications tool. But the website has been given a much needed makeover. The site isn’t entirely new – many of […]
