Rochester School Department Blog

CDC offers this interim guidance, recommending strong consideration of closure of schools with ONE confirmed case of swine flu or a suspected case that has been epidemiologically linked to a confirmed case. Broader school dismissal should be left to local authorities, taking into account the extent of [influenza-like illness] in the community.
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Dear Parents:
 This letter will give you information about a new swine flu identified in the United States and how that might affect us in the Rochester School District.
 Every year, some people get sick with the “seasonal” flu during the fall and winter months. However, as many of you know, there is a new flu virus [...]

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The most recent comparative data for the cost per pupil is on the NHDOE’s website.  I reduced the number of Districts to allow a one page comparison. This data is from the 2007-2008 school year.

                              NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Division of Program Support, Bureau of Data Management

101 Pleasant Street, Concord, NH  03301-3852

TEL 603-271-2778   FAX 603-271-3875

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April 16th
2:05 p.m.  We expect to have power back on by 7 p.m. this evening.  We should be back in business at BCA, HOPE and the Superintendent’s office tomorrow.
The Community Center has a power outage.  We believe it will continue all day.  We have moved all of the evening Board Committee meetings to the High School [...]

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Governor’s summit on graduation
Friday, April 10th was the Summit on increasing graduation in New Hampshire.  A video was shown at lunchtime including the students from the Bud Carlson Academy. 
 Here is the link from the youtube video that includes the Bud Carlson Students. 
 The video from this Friday’s Governors’ Summit can be found on youtube at:
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqYuWYaXyHE  

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AYP Analysis
Rochester School District
The Rochester School District has made significant progress in the recent years on NECAP assessments and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) designations. 
The Rochester Middle School has made AYP for the second straight year.  This is a remarkable turn-around in two years.  For a large school of 1100 students to make AYP in all categories, is remarkable.  This shows [...]

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Below is the data for the last four years of the NECAP Assessments.  No Child Left Behind requires a percentage of students to be proficient each year leading up to 100% by 2013.  A student that scores a 4 or 3 is considered proficient.  If you look at the data, starting in 04-05 we had [...]

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