Created: March 04, 2021 12:26 PM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) Vaccine doses are on the way for teachers in the Rochester City School District, the teacher s union confirmed Thursday.
In an update on the Rochester Teacher s Association website, President Adam Urbanski said 1100 Pfizer shots will be made available next week. The doses will be set aside for members of the RTA and the Rochester Association of Paraprofessionals.
It s part of a push by the Biden administration to get students back to learning in-person in schools.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo supports the push to reopen schools, saying Wednesday “We need children back in classrooms. Children not in classrooms hurts the child, it hurts their socialization.
Created: February 14, 2021 04:33 PM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) Newly released CDC guidelines recommend students return to in-person instruction as long as schools follow appropriate safety protocols, but the issues with how to reopen schools during the pandemic continue, with safety being the main concern among teachers.
“I think teachers are getting a bad rap right now that they don t want to come back to school and they are being lazy, and that s really not the case,” Wilson Magnet High School teacher Nickole Lobdell says.
New recommendations from the CDC says schools can safely reopen with mask-wearing and social distancing in place, but say teachers don t need to get vaccinated against COVID-19. That doesn t connect with some teachers, who note how much the vaccine is being promoted.
Created: February 08, 2021 01:27 PM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) It s back to school for thousands of Rochester City School District students who returned Monday for their first day of in-person classes.
News10NBC visited Anna Murray-Douglass Academy where Phase 2 of the district s re-opening plan began Monday morning.
Except for single-digit temperatures, the first day of in-person classes for Phase 2 RCSD students was just as exciting as it normally is in September. The first set of school buses arrived just before 7:30. Morning, said one student as she arrived. A District employee replied, Oh my God, I m so happy you re back! Are you excited to be back? The student replied, yeah.
WHECTV Created: December 30, 2020 12:50 PM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) Rochester City School District Superintendent Dr. Lesli Myers-Small has instructed her team to come up with a hybrid learning model for students in grades 7-12.
Those students were set to learn at home the rest of the way, with only students in specialized programs, and students K-6 being allowed to return to their home schools in a phased approach.
In a tweet thread Wednesday, Dr. Myers-Small said the district is developing learning pods for 7-12. She says In December, only 25% of students expressed their desire to participate in hybrid learning. And with medical experts telling the district that school is the safest place for students, Myers-Small said she strongly believes all students need to be back in school.