Democrat and Chronicle

An equivalent to one out of three city school students was suspended last year — unacceptable for Rochester's new school superintendent, who said cutting the suspension rate is a priority.

Last school year, each of the 17 boys who now make up the Boys Group at Rochester School 9 was suspended at least once, and as a group they accounted for 40 percent of office referrals.

Bishop Matthew Clark announced the closure of 13 Catholic schools in Monroe County. Two area independent Catholic high schools will add junior highs.

Each time second-grade teacher Eva Burns asks for a volunteer to solve a math problem on the board in the front of her classroom, hands rocket into the air as if she were giving away trips to Disney World.

Rochester could soon get its first charter high school.

After spending more than four years in foster care, 14-year-old Jessie Sayyeau returned this summer to his Rochester home with prescriptions for five different psychotropic drugs

Foster care children in Monroe County are increasingly being given psychotropic drugs. And some of those drugs are intended for adults and have been linked to longterm health problems.

The City School District is working overtime, on Saturdays, to keep students who are dangerously behind in their studies from dropping out.

Peter Michael Grugnale's second-grade class at Greece's Parkland Elementary School has only five other students, one teacher and one teaching assistant.

City school board members say he might join Spitzer administration
Rochester schools Superintendent Manuel Rivera has changed his mind about leading the Boston school system. Instead, Rivera will take a position in the administration of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, according to a member of the Rochester school board.