Category: Education, Featured News, Health
As Schools Open, Monroe County Extends Hours at Immunization Clinic
Besides stocking up on back-to-school supplies, students also need to be up-to-date on their vaccines. New York requires students be...
RCSD Grad Rates Improve, But District Still ‘Far From Accomplishing Mission’
Patti Singerpattisinger@minorityreporter.net Update: On Sept. 10, Rochester City School District Superintendent Terry Dade issued this...
School Board President Van White to Take Questions
Rochester Board of Education President Van White is scheduled to take questions at a roundtable community conversation. The session is...
Maybe We Need a ‘War’
Op-ed by Howard Eagle – I am sicker-and “tireder” than Mother Fannie Lou Hamer was of folks like City News Editor/Co-Publisher,...
Former Mayor Duffy: We Own School Failure, We Need to Change It
Patti Singerpattisinger@minorityreporter.net Update: The City of Rochester has appealed the decision by a state Supreme Court justice who...
Time to Wake America Up from its Student Debt Nightmare
By: Charlene Crowell (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Higher education has always offered opportunities to learn and earn a better quality of...
Changes in Child-Care Subsidy Could Save Hundreds for Low-Income Families in Monroe County
Patti Singerpattisinger@minorityreporter.net Some low-income families whose child care costs are subsidized will save an average of $800...
Regulatory Rollback on Student Loans Takes Away Borrower Protections
By: Charlene Crowell (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Every Fourth of July celebrates this nation’s founding. But this year, only a few...
East’s Shaun Nelms Leads ROC the Future Convener Board
Shaun Nelms, superintendent of East Upper and Lower Schools, has been named chairman of the convener board of ROC the Future. Nelms...
Red, White and Blue and Black: Website Gives African American Perspective of Fourth of July
Patti Singerpattisinger@minorityreporter.net On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass asked a group of white abolitionists in Rochester,...
