The child care shortage starts with staffing. Providers have trouble attracting workers because of what they can pay.
Read More »Monroe County leaders and children’s advocates are calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to increase reimbursement rates for therapists and teachers working with children with development…
Read More »Days after leaders from four Rochester City School unions asked the district to address growing security concerns – including an incident when someone fired a…
Read More »A day after Rochester City Council passed a budget which would remove armed officers from schools, local advocacy groups and activists celebrated a small win,…
Read More »Nearly two dozen people voiced their ideas on how Rochester should spend $7.5 million in federal coronavirus relief funds at a City Council committee meeting…
Read More »Distancing measures in place to slow the spread of COVID-19 have pushed early intervention services like Kaia’s physical therapy — required by both state and…
Read More »Rochester City School District officials have to bridge an $81 million gap in its budget for the upcoming academic year, which means cuts are inevitable.
Read More »The Rochester Board of Education approved laying off 109 teachers, as well as other district staff, in a split vote late Thursday night that moved…
Read More »The chants of “Let teachers teach” and “Education is a right, that’s why we have to fight,” echoed clearly down West Broad Street early Thursday…
Read More »The Children's Agenda will host a forum for county executive and County Legislature candidates at the new Schottland Family YMCA, 2200 Jefferson Road in Pittsford,…
Read More »Auditors from the state Comptroller’s Office have begun scrutinizing the Rochester City School District’s 2018-19 budget to figure out how the district spent an estimated…
Read More »While a child's death has focused attention on the lack of regulations for outdoor grease traps, it has also generated discussion about a continuing problem…
Read More »Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo says she’s reducing the fee that some low-income families pay for child care.
Read More »Susan M. Perry, partnership specialist at the US Census Bureau, and Brigit Hurley, policy and advocacy director for the Children's Agenda, address the importance of…
Read More »This year's preparation of the budget for the Rochester City School District is particularly challenging.
Read More »The Children’s Agenda annually reviews the Rochester City School District’s budget in an effort to give parents and the public a more transparent and analytical…
Read More »Monroe County's Early Intervention services are in crisis, just as they are in counties across the state.
Read More »Is it time to change the way the Rochester school district is governed? Is it time to have it run by something other than an…
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