4/26/2011 1:07:00 PMMayor Frank Jackson to fill five seats on Cleveland school board

April 26, 2011, 1:07 PM 

By Thomas Ott, The Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A nominating committee is taking applications for five of the Cleveland school board's nine seats.

Mayor Frank Jackson will make the appointments from among nominees submitted by the committee. Appointments will be for four years, starting July 1. The seats are now held by Denise Link, Louise Dempsey, Rashidah Abdulhaqq, Harvey Hopson and Iris Rodriguez.

Candidates must live in the district. But at least one appointee must be from a portion of the district outside the city, which could include Bratenahl, Linndale, Newburgh Heights and parts of Brook Park and Garfield Heights.

Applications are available at Cleveland Public Library branches and Cleveland city recreation centers or by calling city Chief of Education Monyka Price at 216-420-8087. Or, go here for an application in English; here for one in Spanish.

Mail applications to Nominating Panel, 601 Lakeside Ave., Room 227, Cleveland, 44114, attention Monyka Price, or apply online.

Applications are due by Friday, May 13.