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Continues `U.S. News' coverage of the Rochester, N.Y. urban education reform which shows signs of disintegrating. Adam Urbanski, union leader and Rochester Schools Superintendent Peter McWalters and their landmark contract; Teachers' rejection of a second contract; Retention of some form of teacher accountability; Method for evaluating teachers seen as too vague and potentially unfair; Creditability problems; Society's ills. INSET: Parental power in question, by T. Toch..

A discussion of the Rochester, N.Y., school reform experiment. Background and details of the bold plan to overhaul their troubled school system by raising teachers' salaries dramatically, enlisting industry to help reshape the curriculum, and giving individual attention to students. The promise of these initiatives and the obstacles that remain are explored in looking at two of the system's schools.

Rochester, N.Y., school district is a model for educational reform. Based on a 1986 report by the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy that proposed how teachers teach and students learn, Rochester released a plan with high hopes and goals. An analysis of the city's businesses, government, and teachers/training/salaries. (Further coverage of the Rochester school experiment is planned by `US News.')

Fourth in a series. Discusses the ambitious effort taking place in Rochester, N.Y., to fix its public schools. Leadership; Ideas; Finances. INSET: Rochester's two-year report card..

Presents the third in a series of articles examining the experiment launched by Rochester, N.Y., to overhaul its troubled school system. Focuses on efforts to cut special-education classes. Mainstream.