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This week's calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Drones discussion Progressives In Action will present "The Expansion of Arial Robotic Warfare and Increasing Public Dissent on the Ground" at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, February 14. Activists
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This is a corrected version of this story. UPDATE: A presentation on alternative schools will be given in a school board committee meeting at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 6, in the third-floor conference room of the Central Office Building, 131 West Broad Street. ORIGINAL STORY: The Rochester school district
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The conditions are right for a perfect storm that could cause libraries to disappear, says Nancy Foster, director of anthropologic research for the University of Rochester. Most information can be accessed digitally from home, the office, or almost anywhere the Internet is available. So, who needs a library? Librarians at
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This week's calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Film looks at urban design The Little Theatre will show the documentary film "Urbanized" by Gary Hustwit at 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 2. The film looks at the
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Call it crazy. Call it a circus. But Americans are following the Republican presidential primary like a mini series, says John Harris. The veteran Washington D.C. journalist is Politico.com's editor in chief. The five-year-old web site is devoted almost entirely to Washington and state-level politics: a hub for political
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For a school district, giving students access to condoms in school is a dramatic step. I get the controversy. Passions run high when the discussion turns to teens having sex. But let's be honest: many teens do have sex. As difficult a decision as it was, the Rochester school board
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City students will for the first time be able to get condoms in city schools. By a vote of 4 to 3, school board members approved a policy last night that includes a condom availability program. Board members Van White, Cynthia Elliott, and Melisza Campos voted no. The vote
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The University of Rochester is extending benefits coverage to the domestic partners of its employees. The coverage will apply to both same-sex and opposite-sex couples (see statement below). The UR announced last year that it planned to stop offering benefits to domestic partners following New York's passage of the
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Construction will begin this summer on School 58, School 50, Charlotte, School 17, and Franklin. They are five of the 12 buildings selected for the $325 million first phase of the long anticipated effort to modernize Rochester's aging schools. The massive $1.2 billion project was conceived about seven years ago.
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The city school board is likely to vote in favor of allowing students to receive condoms at school at its Thursday, January 26 meeting, says board member Jose Cruz. Under changes being proposed to the district's HIV/AIDS prevention policy, students could go to a high school nurse or
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Rochester school district officials predicted last year that the August graduation rate would increase from 51 percent in 2010 to an estimated 53 percent in 2011. And that was supposed to be a conservative estimate. But the 2011 rate instead fell to 49.4 percent, an estimate that includes the late
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This week's calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Clergy for Obama meeting Rochester Faith Community for Obama 2012 will hold a planning meeting at 1 p.m. on Thursday, January 26. The meeting is for Rochester-area clergy members.
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This is a corrected version of this story. Rochester school district officials predicted last year that the August graduation rate would increase from 51 percent in 2010 to an estimated 53 percent in 2011, and that was supposed to be a conservative estimate. Instead, the 2011 grad rate
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City schools Interim Superintendent Bolgen Vargas said the district and the Rochester Teachers Association have submitted a plan for teacher evaluations to the State Education Department. At a press conference this afternoon, Vargas responded to Governor Andrew Cuomo's threat to hold back state aid for district that don't have
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This week's calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Photos commemorate the Holocaust Nazareth College will host "Polish Heroes: Those Who Rescued the Jews," a photo exhibit by Chris Schwarz. It will begin with an opening night reception
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Judy Bello says that despite her April 22, 2011, arrest, she considers herself a good citizen and a patriot. Bello, 61, of Webster, served three days in a jail outside Syracuse: one of 31 people convicted after participating in a protest against US drone attacks. The protests, Bello says, were
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Asked if he would kick Monroe Community College out of the Sibley Building if a lease agreement isn't reached soon, Gilbert Winn said, "That would imply that we've done something to put them in a bad position. And we haven't." Winn is the managing principal of Winn Companies, the Boston-based
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UPDATE: Bolgen Vargas, interim superintendent for city schools, and Adam Urbanski, president of the Rochester Teachers Association, say they are appealing the SED's decision to withhold School Improvement Grant funds and will resubmit the district's application shortly. They say they have addressed the concerns raised by the state
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This week's calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Public hearing on I-390 changes The Upper Mt. Hope Neighborhood Association will hold a public hearing on the proposed reconstruction of the I-390 Exit 16. The project is located
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It could be three years before the Kodak site is ready to accept MCC students. The site has to undergo a thorough environmental review, says Ken Goode, president of MCC's Board of Trustees. | "We're hoping the environmental review will happen within six months to a year," he says. "Once
