City schools Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard. FILE PHOTO
Nine high schools in the Rochester City School District have made the New York State Education Department's list of persistently low-achieving schools. The announcement came out today.
The schools were identified based on data reflecting both state and national standards.
"This is the first year that No Child Left Behind standards were merged with state standards of underperforming schools," says Tom Petronio, spokesman for RCSD.
The high schools include: East, Marshall, Franklin's Bioscience and Health Careers; Franklin Global Media Arts, Franklin International Finance, Edison Applied Technology, Edison Business, Finance and Administration; Edison Engineering and Manufacturing, and Edison Imaging and Information Tech.
The state's announcement was not a surprise, Petronio says. The state has recommended intervention strategies for improving the schools.
But the low-performing schools will likely bolster Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard's plan to close some schools, and Mayor Bob Duffy's case for mayoral control.
Comments for "EDUCATION: Nine city high schools are among the state's worst" (2)
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Louis Richards said on Jan. 22, 2010 at 7:22am
It should be very interesting to see who will now defend the current status quo of education in Rochester. It may be argued that Rochester has some of our state's worst schools because we are New York's most ignorant city; though, it is more likely that Rochester merely has the New York's most ignorant & ineffective elected school board.
Louis Richards said on Jan. 29, 2010 at 3:49pm
There has been a deafening silence from elected officials on this topic since it was published 9 days ago. The usual pols who comment here have absented themselves; in avoidance of the issue, not entirely dissimilar to someone passing gas at a social function: an unspoken universal agreement that it didn't just occur.
Yet, we all know: Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away; failing to “own” your actions/inactions doesn't disconnect you from them and, of course, the ostrich with its head in the sand is the one that becomes eliminated.
In consideration of their behavior, and with any luck, many of those who frequently post as elected representatives will be posting as private citizens this time next year.
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