Civil Rights Groups Slam Obama's Education Reforms - COLORLINES

Civil Rights Groups Slam Obama's Education Reforms - COLORLINES

Meeting on English Language Learners

Multilingual Education meeting to be held next Tuesday, July 27th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at International School #45, 141 Hoyt Street.

For information call Dr. Tamara Alsace, Director of Multilingual Education
Phone: (716) 816-4441
Cell: (716) 316-9536
toalsace@buffaloschools.org

Buffalo Schools teacher retirement exodus

Close to 400 retiring from the Buffalo Public Schools

Lafayette High School closing

Lafayette High School closing. No more freshman to be admitted in September.

Lafayett High School Student killer indicted

Twenty-year-old, Norman Koonce indicted Wednesday for the senseless and tragic shooting of Jawaan Daniels, the Lafayette High School student shot to death in front of a bus stop after suspended from school. The Buffalo Schools has changed its suspension policies after his death.

New suspension policies in the buffalo public schools

Buffalo Public Schools to end out of school suspensions in the aftermath of the death of a high school student gunned down at a bus stop after his suspension from Lafayette High School last month.

While Rochester Public Schools with less students than Buffalo created an out-of-school suspension program with full-time instruction, costing nearly $5 million over two years ago under its new superintendent, the Buffalo Public schools version is $2 to 3 million only offering one hour to elementary and two hours to high school students because of budgetary reasons according to Will Keresztes a school official in the Buffalo News.

Photo:Jean-Claude Brizard Superintendent of Schools Rochester City School District since 2008. Contract of Jean-Claude Brizard.