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Coming up on Connections: Wednesday, July 29th

NPR

First hour: Analyzing the proposed new Code of Conduct for the Rochester City School District

Second hour: Saving western New York landmarks

The Rochester Community Task Force on School Climate has released a new draft on how to discipline students in school. It's the student portion of the Code of Conduct, and it goes to the heart of discipline questions: when is it appropriate to suspend or expel a student? The committee is asking for public feedback over the next month. We'll dig into the specifics of the proposal, and talk about what it might mean for students, parents, and teachers in Rochester. Our guests in studio:

 
Adair Liles, a student on the School Climate Committee 
Jennifer Bannister, Teen Empowerment and a member of the committee
Spero Michailidis, a teacher who works with the Gandhi Institute and a member of the committee
Melanie Funchess, director of Community Engagement for the Mental Health Association

In our second hour: each year, the National Trust for Historic Preservation names its 11 most-endangered historic places in America, often selecting neighborhoods, landmarks and even sports arenas. The Grand Canyon leads the 2015 list, which also includes a western New York landmark: the amphitheater at the Chautauqua Institution, a short drive to our west. Some Rochester preservationists have not only taken up the fight to save Chautauqua; they've been thinking about what a list of Rochester's most endangered landmarks would look like. We'll talk about that with our panel:
 

Wayne Goodman, Executive Director, Landmark Society
Caitlin Meives, Preservation Planner, Landmark Society
Larry Francer, Associate Director of Preservation, Landmark Society
Dirk Schneider, architect, CJS Architects
Brian Berg, The Committee to Preserve the Historic Chautauqua Amphitheater, Chicago

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