Education

As violence increases, children are experiencing shootings and killings. A Rochester afterschool program is trying to help young people with trauma.

Whatever the approach will be going forward for school safety, Rochester high school students say their perspectives are critical to getting it right.

Staff members at School 17 in Rochester have been placed on leave and face firing for allegedly racist texts about their students, Superintendent Lesli Myers-Small said in a statement Friday.

About 15 students of color at Edison Career and Technology High school are taking a women in welding workshop. Right now, they’re constructing an artistic metal bench.

The school board voted on Thursday to raise the city district’s budget for food services by $2.5 million after a presentation by district officials.

The Rochester City School District’s teachers union leadership is troubled by what they say is a tone of animosity toward educators.

Child care access is expanding across New York state thanks to funding in the latest budget that was passed earlier this month.

Rochester City School District leaders and community activists met with the U.S. Attorney for Western New York on Friday as part of the “Each One Reach One” campaign to help students on their path to higher education.

The funding will help to formalize and expand the institute’s national hub of innovation for deaf and hard-of-hearing biomedical scientists and health care professionals.

On Monday, a 10-year-old Buffalo Public Schools student returned to school for the first time in almost two years, just weeks after his family filed a federal lawsuit against the district, regarding reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.