ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - One of the seven people killed in the Amtrak train derailment in Philadelphia was a former teacher in the Rochester public school system who received a master’s degree in education from a college in the upstate city.
WHEC-TV in Rochester reports that Derrick Griffith taught at the city’s Wilson Magnet High School in the late 1990s. Officials at the University of Rochester tell WXXI Radio that he received his masters in 1995 from the college’s Warner School of Education in Teaching and Curriculum.
Griffith was living in Brooklyn where he served as dean of student affairs and enrollment management at Medgar Evers College.
In 2003, Griffith founded the City University of New York Preparatory Transitional High School. Last month he received a doctorate of philosophy in urban education from the CUNY Graduate Center.
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