Manuel Rivera Quotations

If that does end up being the case, I'm still going to have to make $2 (million) to $2.5 million in adjustments in my recommended budget.

Our schools in Rochester are safer than many streets that some of our children have to walk through to get to school. For many, it's a safe haven.

We have been an open book. We will continue to be.

We're thrilled. We're excited. We still have an adjustment of about $2 million-plus to balance the budget, but I'm certain that we will be able to get that done.

We're the only one of the Big Five school districts to see a decrease. Rochester is No. 1 in the state in terms of childhood poverty. The fact that we are losing aid ... is difficult to understand. I'm very concerned about the preliminary numbers.

This is exciting news. Our focus on improving student achievement is paying off. Our goal is to move students consistently upward in performance, and that is precisely what we are achieving.

It will be a multiyear plan, at least over the next 10 years.

If there are some improvements that we have to make to tighten things up to improve procedure, we are going to have to do that. That is, in part, why we are looking at our own controls.

All I can say is that it's a personal leave for personal reasons. We don't typically get into why people are on such personal leaves.