WXXI News | By Noelle E. C. Evans
Published August 24, 2023 at 3:39 PM EDT
A group of kindergartners make their way to a large rug by the windows of a classroom at Allendale Columbia School.
In a couple of weeks, many of them will be entering a new grade level at the Rochester City School District, where about half of students enrolled live in poverty.
But for now, while it’s still summer, they are learning how to read and write at this program, which began nine years ago as a partnership between the private school and the city district’s School 17.