Before the University of Rochester stepped in, East High School was destined to close. In one year there were more than 3,000 suspensions, and a quarter of the students had gotten into fights. “What I saw was more of a police state,” says East High School’s superintendent, Shaun Nelms.
In 2014 the Rochester City School Board asked the university to enlist in an Educational Partnership Organization, a provision of New York law allowing the university to run the school. “We’re in a symbiotic relationship with Rochester,” says the University of Rochester’s president, Joel Seligman, who convinced his Board of Trustees that it was a project the university could not walk away from.
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