For 50 years, the Urban-Suburban program has been this community’s only path to racial integration of schools – providing an opportunity for minority students from Rochester to attend a suburban school. This is a good thing – a very good thing – both for city students who escape high-poverty schools where their chances for success are slim, …
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Please join participants from a broad section of the Greater Rochester community on May 5, 2015 to build consensus around action steps to reduce the concentration of poverty in the Rochester city schools. The GS4A Coalition is looking for partners in progress as we build on work begun at our November 2014 conference, and continued …
I read with interest Erica Bryant’s D&C column over the past weekend that focuses precisely on the key concern of Great Schools for All: the concentration of economically disadvantaged students in any given school. Only one school in Rochester meets school reformers’ guideline of fewer than 40%, she said. Yet the New York State Education …
Welcome to Great Schools For All (GS4A). We are grateful that you have found our website, and, at a deeper level, we hope you find our mission and vision compelling, so much so that you would connect with our work. Who are we? We are a group of citizens, urban and suburban, residents of Monroe …
Three points from the November 10, 2014 community meeting organized by Great Schools for All particularly impressed me. From them I conclude that yes, this effort has an excellent probability of improving public-school education in our region. Mark Hare reminded us in the audience that concentrated poverty in part of the area can’t be solved …
