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		<title>Transforming Urban Education: From Despair to Hope?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been reading Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh. And, like many others, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about our urban schools in Rochester and elsewhere and how we “fix” them. In areas around New York and nationally, there seems to be precious little hope [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education.cgr.org/2012/02/transforming-urban-education-from-despair-to-hope/</link>
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		<title>Reinventing High School for Regions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ontario County’s discussion of regionalizing high schools has made a few headlines of late, and dovetails with potential policy moves at the state level. Part of the Rochester metro area, Ontario encompasses urban, suburban and rural communities. Its 760 square miles are home to nine school districts each with its own high school. In aggregate, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education.cgr.org/2012/01/reinventing-high-school-for-regions/</link>
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		<title>What to Do with Failing Schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Closing failing schools and replacing them with new&#8211;hopefully better&#8211;schools is at the heart of the Portfolio Plan strategy in place in the Rochester City School District. It sure sounds appealing, especially to those who have long felt that education is a world shielded from the consequences of failure. But does it work? The answer is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education.cgr.org/2011/11/what-to-do-with-failing-schools/</link>
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		<title>Is Spending on Higher Education the Next Financial Bubble?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is college worth the money? This is a seasonal debate, prompted by parades of caps &#38; gowns and the agonizing, “So what do I do now?” from grads burdened with big loans but tiny incomes. Some facts about college cost are hard to nail down: One source (The College Board) reports that inflation-adjusted “net tuition”—the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education.cgr.org/2011/06/is-spending-on-higher-education-the-next-financial-bubble/</link>
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		<title>Driving Dollars to Effective Programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deep in the Rochester City School District’s 373-page proposed budget is a 27-page section of program profiles and budgets. In addition to outlining the expenses for a total of about $62 million in programs, the section makes the bold attempt to say something about what the programs are doing and how well they are doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education.cgr.org/2011/04/driving-dollars-to-effective-programs/</link>
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		<title>RCSD in Turmoil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Rochester City School District community is in turmoil over the district’s budget proposal.  Conflict with the teachers union over the contract (and most everything else) adds fuel to the fire, and contributes to longstanding community distrust of the district and its numbers, fed by years of threatened and largely abandoned budget cuts. Controversy is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education.cgr.org/2011/04/rcsd-in-turmoil/</link>
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		<title>Regents Study Is Reason to Push Forward with Reform, Not Retreat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Confronted by a Regents study declaring that only 5 percent of Rochester City School District graduates are college-ready, Jean-Claude Brizard declares the findings “terrifying.” One of Brizard’s best qualities is his persistent willingness to look the facts in the face. Too often our education leadership—the district administration and the Board of Education—has been unwilling to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education.cgr.org/2011/02/regents-study/</link>
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		<title>CGR Reports on Rochester NY School District Reform Efforts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Policy Review Part 4: Role of Culture in School Improvement Excerpt from CGR Report As the media tell the story, a war over education policy is being waged between anti-teacher, test-loving, business-minded crusaders and pro-union, anti-testing defenders of children.  The film Waiting for Superman, the Los Angeles Times release of test scores by teacher, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education.cgr.org/2010/11/cgr-reports-on-rochester-ny-school-district-reform-efforts-3/</link>
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		<title>Teachers are people, too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are days when CGR gets my best. And days when it doesn’t. I care about our work and I’m committed to my colleagues, our trustees, our donors and our clients. But there are days when other priorities intrude. “Family comes first” is socially acceptable. But there are days when I can’t hide behind that. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education.cgr.org/2010/11/teachers-are-people-too/</link>
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		<title>CGR Reports on Rochester NY School District Reform Efforts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Policy Review Part 3: Use of Data Excerpt from CGR Report &#8220;Data-driven decision-making, &#8220;using data&#8221; and &#8220;continuous improvement&#8221; are familiar catch phrases in the business community, but what do they mean in the world of education, and how far has the district come in this work? In education, the notion of using data has become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://education.cgr.org/2010/10/cgr-reports-on-rochester-ny-school-district-reform-efforts-2/</link>
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