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Kimberly Vargas was one of the first Cleveland schools graduates to go to Harvard and now she is back.
Today, after a year board President Denise Link and Mayor Frank Jackson consider successful, the school board will consider extending Gordon's contract as chief executive officer through June 2015.
The Cleveland School District's MC²STEM high school for science, technology, engineering and math plans to move its juniors and seniors to Cleveland State University.
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District honored the valedictorians and salutatorians from the 2012 graduating class during a ceremony at its regularly scheduled board of education meeting on Tuesday night.
West Tech High School, which closed in 1995 after educating generations of working-class kids on Cleveland's West Side, would have been 100 years old this year.
A city councilman and well-regarded private school want the Cleveland school district to reconsider plans for relocating its administrative offices.
A bill containing Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s schools reform plan is among 16 bills that officially were delivered to Gov. John Kasich Wednesday for his signature.
With the governor’s signature of approval on a landmark reform plan, school children and their parents soon will be faced with new educational choices and changes.
A divided state Board of Education on Tuesday rejected Gov. John Kasich's request to endorse Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's school reform plan.
The Cleveland City Council approved Monday night a resolution in support of Mayor Frank Jackson's plan to overhaul the city's schools -- while urging the Cleveland Teachers Union and state legislature to follow suit.
A Cleveland school reform compromise is within reach. After negotiating into the wee hours of Thursday, it appears that Mayor Frank Jackson, Cleveland schools CEO Eric Gordon and the Cleveland Teachers Union are close to agreement on key aspects of the mayor's education reform proposal that require legislative approval.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me -- or so the old saying goes.
The Cleveland Teachers Union and Mayor Frank Jackson met for more than seven hours in a last-minute negotiation session Wednesday night trying to reach agreement on the last two disputed points in Jackson’s school improvement plan
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's recent school reform plan, when taken in a larger context, is really just the latest chapter in what we in the education profession have been fighting for several years now -- a nationwide War on Public Education. Although the battles in this war have been fought on different terrain, the elements of each are always the same -- money, the elimination of political opposition and, like any good witch hunt, scapegoats. What is often blurred in the coverage of these battles is a truthful answer to the question we always ask in the education profession: What's best for kids?
A 185-page document in support of Mayor Jackson's transformation plan for Cleveland schools will be introduced in the Ohio Legislature on Wednesday.
Mayor Frank Jackson and the Cleveland Teachers Union could not reach agreement on two disputed parts of the mayor's schools plan Tuesday, but state legislators plan to introduce the measure today in Columbus anyway.
When it comes to Cleveland's future, Mayor Frank Jackson's plan to save the schools isn't a matter of pass or perish.
Those searching for the way to break through the calcified dysfunction of failing big-city public schools will be studying closely the ambitious reform plan proposed by city and school leaders in Cleveland.
Have you heard? Retired CEO Eugene Sanders is consulting for the Cleveland school district.
Cleveland Metropolitan School District's Project ACT works to ensure that homeless children have the same access to education as housed students. They work to break down the barriers that may prevent these students from attending school.
The Cleveland school district hopes to save $2 million in school renovation costs by changing where Almira Elementary and some John Marshall High School students go next year while their schools are rebuilt.
State school board members, hearing details this morning of Mayor Frank Jackson's plan (PlanFinal.pdf) to overhaul the education of Cleveland children, reacted with a mixture of concern, cautious optimism and outright enthusiasm.
Hundreds of seats have gone unfilled all school year at some of Cleveland's best-performing schools, unused while students remain in schools that struggle.
Gov. John Kasich loves Cleveland’s ambitious plan to overhaul the city’s failing public schools by resetting collective bargaining agreements, championing high-performing charter schools, expanding preschool to all 4-year-olds, and increasing the hours students spend in classes.
Mayor Frank Jackson hopes to triple the number of Cleveland students attending good schools by throwing out union rules governing teacher pay and layoffs, partnering more with high-performing charter schools and giving successful district schools more flexibility in how they do their jobs.
For years, some in Cleveland have argued that the powers that be should blow up Cleveland's struggling public school system and start over from scratch.
A quality education is the foundation for a brighter future. But amidst the education challenges in America today, not all children are guaranteed one.
Art teacher Jayne Sylvester and one of her students stumbled over a slice of history a year ago as they rummaged through cast-off items at Glenville High School's library, hunting for unusual objects to turn into artsy robots.
Timothy Roberts, known for his mentoring of Cleveland students, is back on the job, but at lower pay after he was demoted from his supervisory position.
Students and staff from Cleveland's Almira School will be relocated after a custodian making a routine inspection noticed two structural support beams had deteriorated in a building housing the school at 3575 W. 130th St.
The Cleveland schools saw small improvements and a sag in state rankings as its broad transformation plan started taking hold this year, but the district has a long way to go.
Children are worth concessions. That's the positive lesson expressed in a tentative agreement Cleveland teachers will be voting on beginning today (Wednesday, Dec. 15) and continuing until Dec. 21.
The Cleveland school district's tentative deal with teachers would allow the district to save preschool, spring sports and busing, schools chief Eric Gordon told the school board Tuesday.
More than 800 people celebrated education at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church Thursday night.
The tentative deal under consideration by the Cleveland school board and teachers would give the district about $7 million to restore some of the about $13 million in cuts that the board made in October.
Editor's note: This is the first story in what will be an occasional series about the ongoing effort to create the Cleveland Central Promise Neighborhood.
The Cleveland school district on Thursday laid off 75 safety and security guards as part of $13.2 million in budget cuts the school board approved in October.
In its first major public action, Greater Cleveland Congregations, a newly formed coalition of churches, synagogues and mosques, is calling on the Cleveland school district to restore programs recently cut to save money.
While Cuyahoga County is making an unprecedented investment in preschool, Cleveland is eliminating its program.
Some youngsters in Greater Cleveland lead sheltered lives, far from the violence and cruelty of the city's meanest streets.
State Representative Mike Dovilla (R-Berea) joined educator and Strongsville resident Gary McPherson at Walton Elementary School in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.
WKYC - Ch. 3 and WEWS - Newschannel 5 news coverage on KeyBank donating $700,000 to STEM program
David Boone, a senior at MC2STEM, is one of three students across the country reporting for the Huffington Post on his experience
with the college admissions process. (The other two students are from New York and Boston schools.)
Diggy Simmons visited Cleveland this week for the Scream Tour. He surprised one lucky fan and her classroom. The winner of the z1079 Diggy Jetsetter contest was Kwynn from Cleveland School of the Arts.
Mayor Frank Jackson has selected Lisa Thomas to fill the current vacancy on the Cleveland Metropolitan School District's Board of Education.
In an extraordinarily broad rebuke to Gov. John Kasich and the Republican-run legislature, voters throughout Ohio have decisively rejected Senate Bill 5, the attempt to rewrite the rules for collective bargaining by public employees. Even in many GOP strongholds, this heavy-handed effort to swing the balance of power decisively against unions found so little support that the governor and his allies may be reluctant to reopen the discussion soon.
Students at Campus International School in Cleveland got out to vote early Monday morning for their inaugural student council election.
When Jermale Hines and Bryant Browning say they're teammates, they really mean it.
Cleveland schools safety chief Lester Fultz has to slash 15 percent from his $11 million personnel budget by Dec. 1.
400 Barnes and Noble NOOK e-readers were distributed Wednesday to Cleveland Metropolitan School District students.
It's been obvious for years that Ohio's method of paying for public schools is broken. Asking hard-pressed property owners to put ever more money in the hat is a recipe for financial gridlock and voter anger.
The Plain Dealer editorial board endorses 42 major school levies and school-money issues out of 44 on the Nov. 8, 2011, ballot in Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit counties.
Chants, boos and hisses assailed the stoic Cleveland school board this week as it voted 7 to 1 to cut essential programs, such as a highly touted preschool program, busing and, gulp, security.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland school board voted to cut preschool, spring sports and busing for high school students Tuesday over the howls and boos from residents and teachers who packed the Lincoln-West High School auditorium.
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CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland school board plans to ax about $13 million with one vote tonight, but most of the impact will play out over time.
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As the Cleveland School District grapples with a $13.2 million shortfall, the school board faces tough decisions in order to balance the budget while maintaining a high standard of education for our local students. Ultimately, the decisions made will impact our entire community, as the preparation of our region's future leaders and work force is at stake.
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Ending regular preschool education is just one of of the cutbacks recommended by Cleveland schools CEO Eric Gordon as the district tries to wipe out a $13.2 million deficit resulting from state budget cuts and the district's decision to retain 300 teachers.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland school district's attempt to gather community input Tuesday on $13 million in cuts it will make drew tears, anger and a stream of questions from parents.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio's public workers have reduced personnel costs by more than $1 billion since 2008 through wage freezes, pay cuts and other concessions, according to a study opponents of Issue 2 released on Tuesday.
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A dangerous game of chicken is being played out in the Cleveland public schools that could hurt both the city and its schoolchildren. Schools CEO Eric Gordon wants to keep almost 300 recalled teachers on the payroll so important school reform efforts can stay on track. To do that, he needs modest concessions from the Cleveland Teachers Union.
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Ohioans more vested in pragmatism than partisanship face a difficult and frankly unappetizing choice on Nov. 8:
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland school district will start doing more to communicate with parents who speak little English as part of a settlement reached with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The failure of Hispanic students to graduate from Cleveland schools has become such a problem that district officials call it a crisis.
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Taking attendance was one of the most crucial tasks for public schools across Ohio last week.
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Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, often dwells on the gloomy consequences of child poverty during her speaking tours across the nation.
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The Cleveland school district could save $18 million over the next 10 years by moving from its longtime headquarters to rented offices downtown, say consultants hired by the schools.
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CLEVELAND -- People often say, the reason young families leave Cleveland is because of troubled schools.
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CLEVELAND -- The fast-growing Word Church will lease part of Cleveland's Lincoln-West High School for its first West Side location.
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CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland school board canceled the planned layoff of more than 300 teachers tonight, preventing class sizes from rising, but requiring more than $13 million in budget cuts by the end of next month.
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CLEVELAND -- Another real concern when it comes to education is with Hispanic students, who are the fastest growing minority group in our public schools.
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CLEVELAND -- Education Reporter Kim Wheeler is in New York City as part of NBC's 'Education Nation' and talked to Mark Nolan about a charter school controversy in Cleveland.
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CLEVELAND-- Although students have returned to class, significant renovations continue at Newton D. Baker School of the Arts.
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When interim Cleveland schools CEO Peter Raskind stepped down last June, he left a significant gift: a school budget balanced for the next two years. Union concessions and teacher layoffs gave the district breathing space to focus on school reform.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Finding a better way to fund public schools in Ohio is a task that has bedeviled Ohio's top political leadership for decades. Soon, Gov. John Kasich will take his crack at it.
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Monday, President Obama submitted to Congress the American Jobs Act, a bill designed to jumpstart economic growth and job creation. Today, the President will visit the Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School in Columbus, Ohio to highlight his proposal to put workers back on the job by rebuilding and modernizing schools across the country. This report details the benefits of this program for each state as well as the 100 largest high-need public school districts which will receive funds directly.
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WASHINGTON -- When President Barack Obama addresses Congress tonight with his newest plan to create jobs, a number of business executives, local leaders and ordinary workers will be watching from the visitor gallery's VIP sections.
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CLEVELAND -- Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urged the entire community - parents, neighbors, churches, non-profits - to help schools and provide support for students as he stopped in Cleveland Wednesday as part of a week-long tour of the Midwest.
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CLEVELAND -- Two high school students sprung into action to save a woman's life when no adults would stop to help.
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CLEVELAND -- The group of charter schools that the Cleveland school district partners with excelled on this year's state report cards.
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MLB.com -- CLEVELAND -- There sat a wide-eyed 18-year-old in a turquoise shirt, a silver chain dangling from his neck. His voice quivered as he spoke softly in the dugout, frequently flashing a big smile as bright as his future.
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WKYC-TV3 -- CLEVELAND -- Cleveland Board of Education authorized CEO Eric Gordon to recall teachers to ensure a smooth school opening.
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The Plain Dealer-- Ohio's public employee unions say they're ready to roll the dice.
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The Plain Dealer -- CLEVELAND -- Cleveland schools will recall 365 laid-off teachers to work at least 30 days in the upcoming school year.
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The Plain Dealer-- It's back-to-school shopping time, but rising numbers of local parents are looking for help instead of going to the store.
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WKYC-TV3 -- CLEVELAND -- Cleveland Board of Education authorized CEO Eric Gordon to recall teachers to ensure a smooth school opening.
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The Plain Dealer -- If state education officials can't improve their oversight of failing charter schools and charter sponsors, the state's in no position to sponsor 20 new charters, as state lawmakers want the Ohio Department of Education to do under a new state law.
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The Plain Dealer -- The Arts Academies -- two troubled charter schools, in Cleveland and Lorain -- have shut down.
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The Plain Dealer -- The attacks on Cleveland teachers could easily lead one to question the motives of the district, the mayor, business leaders and legislative leaders. Whether it's vouchers or mayoral control, our district is too often the unwilling recipient of someone else's grand reform plan.
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The Plain Dealer -- Just 96 youngsters attend a free Ninth Grade Summer Academy that was smartly, and quietly, started this summer for teenagers throughout Cuyahoga County with a big push by Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and help from education, corporate and nonprofit sponsors.
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The Plain Dealer -- Some lessons have students learning fractions and decimals using the batting averages and home runs of major league baseball players. Some use propaganda posters from World War II to highlight how advertising and other media help shape opinions. Others use children's books to draw students into talking about the lessons such books teach children and how they relate to their own lives.
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The Plain Dealer -- It's 9 a.m. on a summer weekday. Someone flicks on a CD player inside a room at Cuyahoga Community College Metro Campus and 50 teens immediately begin swaying as they softly sing:
"The higher you build your barriers
the taller I become . . . "
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The Plain Dealer --In about 30 hours, a team of more than 400 volunteers transformed Cleveland high school Martin Luther King Jr. Career Campus from a building with cracked windows and chipped paint to one worthy of the bright students who attend it throughout the school year.
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The Plain Dealer --The fate of Senate Bill 5, Ohio's new collective bargaining law, will be in the hands of Ohio voters on Nov. 8, the state's elections chief announced on Thursday.
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The Plain Dealer -- Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is demanding a do-over in Columbus, accusing Republican state lawmakers of reneging on plans to approve tougher new rules that would have made it easier for him to fire any public school teacher for poor performance.
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The Plain Dealer -- After years of well-larded contracts with provisions for chauffeurs and country clubs, it's refreshing that new Cleveland schools CEO Eric Gordon just took a no-frills, one-year contract -- just as he promised. That keeps the focus on academics -- just as he promised. And it removes a perennial sore point with residents fed up with Cadillac benefits for school leaders trying to steer an Edsel system toward Chevy status.
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The Plain Dealer -- From the moment he started work in the Cleveland schools' downtown administration building, Chief Operating Officer Patrick Zohn thought it was an ideal location -- for a hotel. He could soon find out whether developers and hotel operators agree.
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The Plain Dealer -- Mayor Frank Jackson says he's likely to push to convert some Cleveland district schools to charters, exempting them from union rules that govern teacher layoffs and other matters, if he decides that would provide a better education for students. Jackson and school officials emphasized that no decisions have been made since the new power was given to the district last week by state legislators. Any charter conversions would come after the next school year.
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The Plain Dealer -- When business leader Peter Raskind got the chance to run the Cleveland schools in February, he went in hearing horror stories about lazy employees, disinterested parents and a dysfunctional culture that made the district hard to work with and doomed its prospects. But while he discovered kernels of truth in those stories, the former chairman and chief executive officer of National City Bank also found many examples to the contrary. Mainly, he says, he found a district hungry to make progress.
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The Plain Dealer -- Eleven Northeast Ohio school districts have won a share of $16.2 million in federal funds that the state is doling out over the next three years for innovative programs. The districts - Akron, Buckeye, Brooklyn, Cardinal, Cleveland, Cleveland Heights-University Heights, Fairport Harbor, Kenston, Maple Heights, Oberlin and South Euclid-Lyndhurst - are all participating in the state's Race to the Top program.
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WCPN -- One component of Ohio’s unemployment problem is certainly a lack of jobs – politicians would like to see a lot more of them – but another important piece involves what you might call a “talent gap” (or “skills gap”). Many employers – and especially manufacturers – say they struggle to find workers who have both the technical know-how AND sound work ethic essential to running a productive shop. One local school , Cleveland's Garrett Morgan New Tech, is trying to fix this problem at the beginning of the pipeline – preparing students to thrive in the workplace with equal emphasis on technical skills and professionalism. Ideastream's Michelle Kanu has the story. more
newsnet5.com -- On Friday, his title changes to CEO. But around the administrative offices of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, he's known as Eric. After four years as the district's Chief Academic Officer, Eric Gordon will move into the top job, an appointment he says is less about him and more about a vote of confidence in the system. "The people of this district have shown we can make improvements here," he said, "and that it's worth investing at least one more year."
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WKYC-TV -- The Cleveland Schools have reached a tentative agreement with one union --which includes a pay cut. CMSD and Teamsters Local 244 -- a small union that works in the district buildings -- reached the two year agreement. It includes a 5-percent reduction in pay for this year and no change for next year. The District and union also agreed to employees' payment of 10-percent of insurance premiums, and no new longevity pay differentials.
The Plain Dealer -- Two of Cleveland's education administrators were recognized Tuesday for inspiring dedication and collaboration in community work. Peter Raskind, interim chief executive officer of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District and Barbara Snyder, president of Case Western Reserve University, received this year's Sam Miller Goodness Award from the Project Love, Remember the Children Foundation.
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CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Foundation awarded $800,000 to the Cleveland Metropolitan School District to support 13 innovative schools, including the newly opened Campus International School at Cleveland State University.
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WCPN -- Share Efforts by the Kasich administration and legislators to tie teacher pay to performance – has generated a hot debate in Ohio. The strongest opposition is from teachers and their unions. The proposed change goes against decades of teacher contracts and law which have mandated that teacher raises occur automatically, based on years of service and credentials. How much students are learning hasn’t been a factor when it comes to teacher pay. But teachers do get evaluated nonetheless and that experience may be a key to understanding why so many teachers are fearful about having evaluations in the future be tied to pay. Ideastream’s Michelle Kanu explains.
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The Plain Dealer -- The Breakthrough charter schools, seeking to expand, are buying four school buildings closed by the Cleveland school district. Breakthrough will pay more than $1.5 million for the buildings. Breakthrough chief Alan Rosskamm plans to put new schools into three of the buildings and move an existing school into the fourth.
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The Plain Dealer Editorial Board -Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is no friend of Senate Bill 5, which curtails the unions' collective bargaining rights. But he does have a firm belief that Cleveland's youngsters can succeed if they have a good education in traditional schools or charter schools. So the low-key Jackson, joined by Cleveland Schools CEO Eric Gordon and the Cleveland school board, broke with Democratic orthodoxy to give full-throated support to reinstating a piece of the proposed state budget that would -- like SB 5 -- create a detailed teacher merit-pay system.
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Kwanza Johnson's only concern when she heads off to Bethune-Cookman University in Florida later this year will be her studies.Her college tuition has been picked up. Johnson, 18, was one of 380 students who received scholarships during the College Now Greater Cleveland's Celebration of Excellence program Tuesday night at John Hay High School. The recipients included high school graduates from 52 area schools and adults who are returning to school or going to college for the first time.
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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is urging Republican legislative leaders to adopt language in the state budget bill creating a teacher merit pay system -- similar to one in Senate Bill 5, a controversial collective bargaining law Jackson has criticized as an attack on public workers. Jackson, a Democrat, joined Cleveland Schools CEO Eric Gordon and school board chair Denise Link in writing a letter Monday rs to keep the merit pay language as well as a handful of other provisions in the state budget.
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The Plain Dealer --Today, we answer this question: Whatever happened to Northeast Ohio's "fab labs?" They're flourishing, and spreading. "There are more fab labs in Ohio than anywhere else in the country, and more in the Cleveland area than anywhere else in Ohio," said David Richardson, an adviser to the region's pioneer facility at Lorain County Community College in Elyria.
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The Plain Dealer --Today, we answer this question: Whatever happened to Northeast Ohio's "fab labs?" They're flourishing, and spreading. "There are more fab labs in Ohio than anywhere else in the country, and more in the Cleveland area than anywhere else in Ohio," said David Richardson, an adviser to the region's pioneer facility at Lorain County Community College in Elyria.
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The Plain Dealer -- Pvt. Donald Owens, a former Rhodes High School student, died in his tank during combat in France in World War II, and his remains went undiscovered for more than 60 years. But during the past eight years, the efforts of people here and abroad who never knew Owens have brought him home to his family and burial at Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 23.
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WCPN -- Two weeks before his time as interim CEO for Cleveland schools is up, Peter Raskind offered some thoughts about what can be done to spur progress in student achievement and improve teacher evaluations. But Ida Lieszkovsky reports, Raskind was short on specifics.
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The Plain Dealer -- The Cleveland school district is wiping out a few perks that top administrators receive, but adjusting pay so that the employees don't take a large financial hit in the process.
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The Plain Dealer --- We've heard this story before. A new Cleveland schools leader says he has a vision to help the schools and is committed to making it happen. What makes Eric Gordon, the latest choice to head the district, any different? He just might be sincere in his claim that giving students in difficult situations a chance to make it is his mission in life. He's a guy who is proud of tearing up at seeing a bunch of Cleveland students be the first in their families to go to college. He's a guy who left the fast track at a rich school district to come to Cleveland, saying he thought the kids here needed help more.
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Cleveland Metropolitan School District Public Affairs Specialist Brian McIntyre shares information about the recently established CMSD Alumni Association and explains how to get involved.
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Tune in as NewsChannel 5 anchor Leon Bibb helps CMSD launch the Cleveland Association of Alumni and Friends.
The Plain Dealer -- Congratulations to Eric Gordon, who was inducted on Tuesday into the rarefied ranks of big-city school superintendents. He has a chance to actually play the leading role in the show he has written: the "transformation plan" on which his boss and predecessor, Eugene Sanders, abruptly bailed this year. By all accounts, Gordon has proved a smart, industrious fellow in his behind-the-scenes work. Now, we're going to see how he does as a front man.
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The Plain Dealer Editorial Board -- The Cleveland public schools have been walloped with surprises recently, but the latest is the best. After conducting a national CEO search that produced three underwhelming out-of-town candidates, Mayor Frank Jackson and the Cleveland school board chose an excellent leader close to home: Eric Gordon, 40, the district's chief academic officer for the last four years.
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An On Your Side investigation found seven northeast Ohio school superintendents make more money than Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Kasich earns $148,866 a year, according to documents obtained by NewsChannel5. Our investigation found Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s Chief Executive Officer is paid a significantly higher salary than the governor.The current budget for the position is $263,000. Eric Gordon, the district’s chief academic officer, was appointed chief executive officer Tuesday. Gordon said he anticipates he will earn less.
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The Plain Dealer -- The Cleveland School Board this morning chose its chief academic officer, Eric Gordon, to be its new chief executive officer. The board voted unanimously at an early morning meeting, choosing Gordon over three finalists they had interviewed last week. Gordon had been eliminated earlier by the CEO search committee, but the board went back to him and selected him for the job.
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The Plain Dealer -- A group of West Side parents agonized as their children approached school age. They were uncertain about the Cleveland schools in their neighborhood, but could not find a convenient alternative that didn't have a waiting list. Their answer? Recruit one. Near West Intergenerational School, a new charter school spun off from a highly regarded Cleveland model, will open in late August or early September. In an arrangement unprecedented for Cleveland, the charter school will share the district's Garrett Morgan School of Science, a high school on Woodbine Avenue.
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The Plain Dealer -- The teacher-recruitment group recently singled out by the governor and state legislature as a way to improve education in Ohio has started planning to put recruits in the state - possibly in the Cleveland schools - by the fall of 2012. Wendy Kopp, founder of New York-based Teach for America, said in a visit to Cleveland Monday that Ohio is ripe for her group's model of taking high-performing college graduates and placing them as teachers in struggling schools for two years.
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Plain Dealer -- Regis Balaban, executive director of food and child nutrition services for the Cleveland School District, is a finalist in the national Original Health Nut competition, sponsored by the California Walnut Commission. Dr. Michael Roizen, chief wellness officer at the Cleveland Clinic, was one of a handful of judges who made Balaban one of six finalists for the title. Online voting continues through next week at this site: theoriginalhealthnut.com
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The Plain Dealer -- Every a year, a vicious plant swallows a human or two. Or warring gangs go at it on the west side of Manhattan. Or Motown divas do their explosive thing. They do so, by the way, through song and dance. Those scenarios and others have delighted Cleveland audiences on an annual basis since the turn of the 21st century, thanks to the All-City Musical presented by the Cleveland School District in partnership with Great Lakes Theater Festival, PlayhouseSquare and the Musical Theater Project. For this year's 12th annual entry, "Bubbling Brown Sugar," more than 40 Cleveland students from 10 district and charter schools will be onstage at the Ohio Theatre to evoke Harlem from the 1920s to the '40s. That was the era when the Cotton Club, Apollo Theater and other nearby landmarks were red-hot platforms for the greatest black and white jazz performers.
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Fox Sports Ohio -- Baron Davis is working with the B.R.I.C.K. Cleveland Cavaliers guard Baron Davis will throw out the ceremonial first pitch Thursday night prior to the Cleveland Indians game vs. the Texas Rangers. Davis will also host 18 boys (ages 13-17) from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s B.R.I.C.K. (Brotherhood, Respect, Intelligence, Conduct, Knowledge) program in a suite at Progressive Field that evening. Go here to read the story.
The Plain Dealer -- Mayor Frank Jackson and the Cleveland school board need a little more time to choose the district's new leader. Board members and Jackson interviewed the three finalists to become the district's new chief executive officer on Tuesday, meeting each candidate for 90 minutes in Jackson's office. Though the board had hoped to name a new CEO by Wednesday, school board President Denise Link said after the interviews that the board will have to meet again to discuss the candidates. No meeting date has been set, but Link said the board will decide at that time if district representatives should visit the current districts of the finalists - Lorain Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson, Lowell, Mass., Superintendent Chris Scott and Grand Rapids, Mich., Superintendent Bernard Taylor.
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The Plain Dealer -- Bernard Taylor is willing to offend people to make the changes he believes his school district needs. In his five years as superintendent of the Grand Rapids, Mich., schools, he has been something of a polarizing figure. The district's teachers union has accused him of trying to break the union. Parents, teachers and school board members often find him too blunt and impatient. And school board evaluations of his job performance say he needs to handle criticism better.
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The Plain Dealer -- Supt. Chris Scott is friendly with the teachers union in Lowell, Mass. She's hanging her hat on that relationship, whether it wins her the job as the chief executive officer of the Cleveland school district or blows her chances. Scott, the superintendent of the Lowell district since 2008, has the strong backing of the Lowell local of the American Federation of Teachers.
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At first glance, Cheryl Atkinson's four years as superintendent of the Lorain city schools look nothing like success. The district slipped into "academic watch" the year after she arrived. An attempt to pass a new school tax failed by a large margin. And last year, the district met only one of 26 indicators the state measures on its last report card - placing it in the bottom five districts statewide. But ask Atkinson's supporters about her performance and the response almost always starts with a pause, followed by some version of, "Let's back up a minute so you can understand what she came into....."
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The Plain Dealer -- NFL wide receiver Braylon Edwards no longer plays for the Browns but his heart is with Cleveland-area students. Edwards hosted the Braylon Edwards Foundation's Advance 100 Graduation at Cuyahoga Community College's Metro Campus Wednesday night. He awarded $10,000 scholarships to 100 students graduating from Cleveland schools, fulfilling a promise he made in 2007.
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New York Daily News -- For all the criticism that Braylon Edwards took during his time with the Cleveland Browns, here’s an impactful story that deserves to be told.Edwards, who will be a free agent when the NFL labor impasse is resolved, fulfilled a promise today that he made to 100 eight-graders in Cleveland years ago. On May 16, 2007, Edwards promised $1 million in academic scholarship money toward college tuitions at the start of the ADVANCE 100 Program, an educational intiative established by the Braylon Edwards Foundation, in the Cleveland Municipal School District. Students and their parents signed a pledge at the time to fulfill their end of the bargain: Graduate from high school.
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WKYC-TV -- Sex education is starting earlier in many school districts these days. Now in the fifth year, the Cleveland School District's K-12 Responsible Sexual Behavior Initiative is getting some positive feedback. A new survey found that 9th and 10th grade students who had RSB lessons were less likely to have sex than those who had not taken the classes.
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Interim CEO of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District Peter Raskind talks about the search for a new CEO, the budget and what he'd like for the students in the school system.
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WEWS-TV --Thousands of Cleveland students put on a show this past weekend for the “Rock Your World All-City Arts Festival.” The annual event, held at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, featured the talents of local choirs, marching bands, visual art, dancers and theater programs. More than 100 Cleveland Metropolitan School District music groups took part in the event. This was the festival’s eleventh year.
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The Plain Dealer -- Cleveland Police Department will pull officers from trouble-prone schools to keep more of its shrinking force on the streets. The move was among several announced Friday in response to pending layoffs in the city's safety forces. Mayor Frank Jackson said earlier this week that he will lay off 81 patrol officers and 51 firefighters at the end of the month; 42 police cadets will go then or in mid-June.
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Cleveland Jewish News -- Peter Raskind briefly considered the offer to temporarily lead the Cleveland city schools before saying yes. “This opportunity may never come along again,” the interim Cleveland schools CEO said at a Corporate Club luncheon last week. “It’s hard to conceive of anything more important to the region and the city.”
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WKYC-TV -- - The Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association says the city plans to remove about 20 Cleveland police officers from school buildings as of June 1. This is more fallout from the announced city layoffs and the planned layoff of Cleveland police officers. en out of the schools. We have two in each high school now," says CPPA
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WKYC-TV -- - After 2 and a half years of research by a Rhodes High School librarian, Pvt. Donald Owens will get a final send off from Rhodes ROTC cadets at Arlington National Cemetery. Donald Owens was a student at Rhodes High School until he went into the army in World War II.
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The Plain Dealer -- Repeat after us: The Cleveland public schools should not be a cash cow for retiring administrators and staff. But since July 1, 2010, 269 employees have walked out the door with buckets of creamy milk -- nearly $5 million in lucrative payouts for their unused sick leave and vacation. While union employees took home the majority of the pay, two administrators got the fattest checks, leaving with a total of $166,000. That's outrageous -- as is the rehiring of 24 retirees on what amounts to double pay, both retirement and salary.
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The Plain Dealer ---- The orange team of Crouse Community Learning Center of Akron danced their way to the gold in the 2011 Colors of the Rainbow Grand Finals Saturday at the Ohio Theatre in Cleveland. The blue team from Cleveland's Marion-Sterling Elementary School won a silver medal. Also winning silver medals were the green team of Cleveland School of the Arts. A bronze medal was awarded to the yellow team of Patrick Henry School in Cleveland.
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The Plain Dealer --- Rhythmic counts transform the fifth-grade classroom at Marion-Sterling Elementary School into a bustling dance studio. "In to the north, out to the south," intones dance instructor Claire Russell. "In to the north, out to the south," repeat the students. "You shake it!" Now in its third year, the Dancing Classrooms Northeast Ohio program reaches 19 schools, 56 classrooms and 1,400 children. In 10 weeks, children learn the finesse of the fox trot and the flight of the swing. But "cor-taying" for the tango and "combing your hair" for the rumba aren't the only steps to master.
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WKYC-TV -- This Sunday, Cleveland Rite Aid marathon and 10K runners will be joined by 683 students from 37 Cleveland public schools. We Run This City is a collaboration between the YMCA of Greater Cleveland, the Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon, the Cleveland Department of Public Health, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, and Case Western Reserve University's Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods.
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The Plain Dealer -- Peter Raskind is winding up his run as interim chief executive of the Cleveland schools, but it would be a mistake to say he is winding down. Raskind, pressed into service after Eugene Sanders retired Feb. 1, has been more than a caretaker. He closed seven schools, engineered the layoffs of nearly 900 employees, canceled management perks and slashed spending by $75 million, enough to keep the district's head above water for at least two years.
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WCPN Radio -- This week, a search committee interviewing candidates vying to become the next Cleveland Schools CEO recommended three superintendents to the last round. Now it’s up to the school board and the mayor to decide which of the finalists they want. No matter what the decision, expectations are very high. ideastream’s Michelle Kanu reports the Cleveland community’s expectations fall just short of the new leader wearing a cape and wielding superhuman powers.
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The Plain Dealer --- A search committee met Tuesday with the three remaining candidates for chief executive officer of the Cleveland schools, then let all of them advance to the final round. Mayor Frank Jackson and the school board will interview superintendents Cheryl Atkinson of Lorain, Bernard Taylor Jr. of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Chris Scott of Lowell, Mass., in Cleveland. No dates have been announced.
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The Plain Dealer --- Calvin Hulittle and Marlin Broner made it to the finish line first. On Sunday, when they heard their names announced at Baldwin-Wallace College's commencement exercises, they became the first of 33 young black men, known as the B-W Scholars, to complete college. Few of the youths were expected to even graduate high school when B-W, Cleveland Scholarship Programs (now known as College Now Greater Cleveland) and Cleveland public schools launched the program in 2003
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The Plain Dealer --- The Cleveland Municipal School District, scratching for every penny, could use the nearly $5 million paid to employees who have retired since last summer. Records show that 269 employees cashed in that amount of accumulated vacation and sick leave since the fiscal year started July 1. Topping the list are two administrators who each collected about $83,000, one after working in the system for four years.
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The Plain Dealer --The dream of creating a permanent, architecturally dramatic new home for the fledgling Campus International School at Cleveland State University is still just that -- a dream. But it will take more definite shape by August, thanks to a locally sponsored global design competition launched on Monday to envision how such a building could elevate standards for public-school architecture in Cleveland and achieve landmark quality.
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WJW-Fox 8 - Six CMSD schools participated Tuesday in First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let''s Move" day to promote physical fitness and fight against childhood obesity. The CMSD students who danced at the Downtown WMCA joined h
undreds of kids across the country who stopped what they were doing to dance at the
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The Plain Dealer -- Graduates will say goodbye to Cleveland's John Marshall High School on May 7, even though the building isn't going anywhere for a while. The school district will hold off on demolishing John Marshall for at least a year, Gary Sautter, deputy chief of capital programs, said Friday. The delay leaves time to come up with a cheaper and more politically palatable plan for housing students during the three years it will take to raze the West 140th Street school and build a new version.
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The Plain Dealer -- Cleveland schools' search for a new chief executive officer has narrowed to three candidates. A search committee agreed Thursday to conduct second interviews with superintendents Chris Scott of Lowell, Mass., Cheryl Atkinson of Lorain and Bernard Taylor Jr. of Grand Rapids, Mich. The selections came after two days of video interviews. Others in the field included two internal candidates -- Chief of Staff Christine Fowler-Mack and Chief Academic Officer Eric Gordon -- Des Moines, Iowa, Chief Academic Officer Michael Munoz and Patrick Cooper, a former superintendent who heads the Early Childhood and Family Learning Foundation in New Orleans.
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The Plain Dealer --- The Cleveland school district finished slashing its workforce Tuesday by cutting 119 non-teaching jobs. The school board voted to lay off 88 secretaries, security officers and other non-teaching employees, nearly all of which are union positions. Meanwhile, interim Chief Executive Officer Peter Raskind gave notice to 17 non-union staff and said he will not fill 14 vacant positions.
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The Plain Dealer -- 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..
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WEWS -- For the past 35 years, Karen Glasenapp has worked to turn school work into songs at Riverside Elementary School on Cleveland's west side. She says when she first started teaching kindergarten in the 1970s, teachers were required to know how to play the piano. That's because studies show that you use a different part of the brain to remember lyrics set to music, opposed to words in a poem without music.
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The Plain Dealer -- Picking the Cleveland schools' next chief executive officer won't be like grabbing one of the suits off a rack. The candidates are not all cut from the same cloth. For example, one is a superintendent who says she heard about the job from the president of a national teachers union. Another runs a one-stop shop of social services to help kids thrive in school. They are among seven candidates who emerged Tuesday from a pool of 126.
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The Plain Dealer -- The field of candidates for Cleveland schools chief executive officer narrowed quickly Tuesday as a screening committee picked nine applicants from a pool of 126. Two internal candidates -- Chief of Staff Christine Fowler-Mack and Chief Academic Officer Eric Gordon -- survived. So did Lorain Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson.
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CNN -- Cleveland's public schools mirror many of the problems of inner city life: gang activity, drug infestation, poverty, low academic achievement and a dismal graduation rate. Within the past year, the school system has undergone a comprehensive and sometimes harsh reorganization in hopes of changing that reality.
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The Plain Dealer -- Former Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher and Roderick Chu, ex-chancellor of Ohio's higher-education system, are among 126 applicants seeking to be the Cleveland schools' next chief executive. Also on the list is LaVonne Sheffield, a top aide to Michael White when he was Cleveland's mayor. Sheffield is resigning as superintendent of the Rockford, Ill., schools amid criticism over layoffs and school closings.
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WEWS-TV -- Sleeping in school is usually not allowed. But Friday night was an exception. John Adams High School freshmen brought their blankets and sleeping bags for a night of workshops on leadership, character development and decision-making.
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The Plain Dealer -- Nearly 100 superintendents, principals and teachers collected information and visited the district's New Tech academies, opened in August in sections of East Tech High School and the Garrett Morgan School of Science. The schools, part of the system's academic "transformation plan," are the first Ohio outposts in the national New Tech Network, which grew from the founding of California's Napa New Technology High School in 1996.
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The Plain Dealer -- Using only 500 words apiece, three Northeast Ohio high school students gave voice to their experiences of hatred and intolerance to win a total of $90,000 in college scholarships Sunday. The students, winners of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage's third annual "Stop the Hate! Youth Speak Out" essay contest, were chosen from more than 1,700 entries from across the region. Cedric Thorbes, a senior at Glenville High School in Cleveland, won $25,000 for his essay on the quiet racism that inspired him to get involved in social justice organizations.
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The Plain Dealer -- It may be small consolation to teachers facing layoffs, but the Cleveland school district is cutting off perks that have paid administrators about a half-million dollars so far this fiscal year. Interim Chief Executive Officer Peter Raskind has terminated car allowances and payments for managers' employee pension contributions, effective June 30.
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The Plain Dealer -- The Cleveland School District's trail-blazing innovative schools earn some of the best grades in town. But they need careful, continuous nurturing -- and a full-time director -- if the district hopes to build on their success and keep more families in the city.
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The Plain Dealer --Cleveland's pending school layoffs are remarkable in scope and striking in detail. Some teachers with more than 20 years' experience will lose their jobs in June because they never met the requirements for "continuing contract," often referred to as tenure. Support units of nurses and social workers were weakened or obliterated. The cuts touched special education, which encompasses a fourth of the district's 44,000 students and had seemed off-limits.
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The Plain Dealer -- The anger, shouting and finger-pointing Tuesday evening when the Cleveland Board of Education voted to close seven schools and lay off 702 people, most of them teachers, was understandable. Closing schools and handing out pink slips in a wounded economy will be painful. Still, interim CEO Peter Raskind must be far more transparent about the extent of cuts he's making to central office staff -- and more relentless about trimming that and other school overhead.
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WEWS-TV -- Samuel Nunoo is a shy 11-year-old who prefers to let his fingers do his talking.
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WEWS-TV -- Samuel Nunoo is a shy 11-year-old who prefers to let his fingers do his talking.
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The Plain Dealer --The Cleveland school board took the stage at its downtown auditorium Tuesday and played what's become a recurring role. It laid off 643 teachers, some for the third time in the last seven years. The board also closed seven of its 94 schools, including Giddings Elementary where Freeman teaches. In all, the cuts aimed at stabilizing the district financially along with slight revenue increases total nearly $73 million.
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Plain Dealer -- The Cleveland schools' Office of New and Innovative Schools has been without a permanent leader for nearly two years, and it will remain so following the last-minute rejection of a director-in-waiting. An out-of-state candidate was offered the $178,225-a-year job in January and signed a contract, but interim Chief Executive Officer Peter Raskind canceled the agreement Feb. 14. According to emails and other documents, the district uncovered background information the candidate failed to disclose.
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Shenee McCoy-Gibbons, administrative assistant to former Cleveland schools Chief Operating Officer Daniel Burns returned to work last summer, more than a year and a half after sheriff's deputies and state auditors descended on Burns' office. McCoy-Gibbons was never charged and she testified against Burns at his trial last June. She was given a job in human resources last August and transferred to the security department in November. She works as an internal-affairs investigator, the position she held before moving to Burns' office in September 2006.
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The Cleveland School District has cut its parting payment to former Chief Executive Officer Eugene Sanders by nearly half. Sanders, who retired Feb. 1, had sought $110,000 for 100.5 unused vacation days. The district slashed the amount to $59,000, deducting for expenses it said should not have been paid for Sanders or were not allowed under his contract. According to school officials, the district deducted $50,845 for life and disability insurance policies not authorized by Sanders' agreement, $194 in meal expenses previously given to him and $125 he was reimbursed for a ticket to a political fundraiser .
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Sun News -- Funding remains intact for demolishing John Marshall High School and replacing it with a new $52 million facility at the same location, 3952 W. 140th St. But, due to the budget cuts, there are no extra funds to pay for bids coming in too high for the cost of temporary, modular classrooms to be set up at Carl F. Shuler High School, 13501 Terminal Ave. That news was revealed at a public meeting held last week to update stakeholders on the project’s progress.
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Renaissance Learning, April 2011
Since the 2008-2009 school year when CMSD began using the Accelerated Reader program offered by Renaissance Learning, the percent of students scoring Proficient on the Ohio Achievement Assessments (OAA) test has been on the rise. CMSD students who used AR during the 2009-2010 school year scored an average of 5 scales score points higher on the OAA than students who did not use AR.
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The newly launched Campus International School (CIS) is a far cry from a traditional neighborhood school. A collaboration between Cleveland State and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, CIS has already been recognized by the New York Times as an innovative model for urban education.
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The Plain Dealer -- Gov. John Kasich's budget would give Northeast Ohio school districts $169.7 million less state aid in 2013 than they received this year, a Plain Dealer analysis shows. CMSDwas correct in predicting a negligible impact in the first year of the state budget. Officials, who were bracing for a $47.5 million deficit in the 2011-12 school year, would see that figure grow by $1.8 million. But another $19.4 million would disappear in the second year.
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WEWS-TV -- Max Hayes Vocational High School is where we found senior bowler Nathan Lockyer when he's not knocking down bowling pins he's a automotive mechanic in training. Nathan has been a varsity bowler for four years leading Max Hayes to three Senate League championships, but he has a thing for fast cars.
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Philadelphia Inquirer -- Around the country, schools are trying to find effective ways to deal with violence among young students. The 47,000-student Cleveland Metropolitan School District almost two years ago instituted a social and emotional learning curriculum in kindergarten through fifth grade. Teachers three times a week instruct students in how to understand their emotions and control their behavior.
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Crain's Cleveland -- Peter Raskind, who was CEO of National City Corp. in the final months before it disappeared from Cleveland's landscape, now has twice become interim head of organizations in difficult straits. His salary in each case: $1. His goal with both bodies: to leave them more stable for the talent that follows. He worked first beginning in late 2009 for the then-beleaguered Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority. Now, he's striving to close by June 30 a $47.5 million budget shortfall for the 2011-2012 school year at the Cleveland Metropolitan School District as its interim CEO.
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Look at all the excess space in Cleveland schools, and you might wonder why the district is considering shutting down only seven buildings.
Of 94 district schools, 55 are at least 30 percent under capacity, according to data used in deciding which buildings to close. Enrollment was just one consideration, along with test scores, location, transportation costs and building condition.
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THE PLAIN DEALER -- One piece of the budget puzzle fell into place Thursday when school district leaders across Ohio found out how much Gov. John Kasich wants to give them in basic state aid over the next two years. The proposed budget divvies up the money so that districts - SUCH AS smsd -- relying heavily on the state won't bear the brunt of federal stimulus money disappearing, according to the Office of Budget and Management.
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Reality bites hard. And the reality at the Cleveland public schools, that last year's school-closure plan did not assuage, is this: This shrinking district still has too many teachers, staff and schools.
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Peter Raskind works best against the clock. The last CEO of National City has found an unlikely second act as interim turnaround leader of Cleveland's port and schools -- Cleveland Magazine
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As some parents at the Early Childhood Center at Charles Orr dropped off their children today, they had no idea it was on a closure list. Charles Orr is one of 7 schools proposed to close after this school year. It is part of the district's plan to cut nearly $74 million dollars over the next two years.
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The Cleveland school board will consider laying off 835 employees -- 13 percent of its full-time work force -- and closing seven schools as it claws to get the district on firmer financial ground. Interim Chief Executive Officer Peter Raskind proposed more than $74 million in cuts at a board meeting Tuesday, going well beyond a $47.5 million deficit forecast for next year. The board could vote as soon as April 5.
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The Cleveland school board will consider laying off 835 employees -- 13 percent of its full-time work force -- and closing seven schools as it claws to get the district on firmer financial ground. Interim Chief Executive Officer Peter Raskind proposed more than $74 million in cuts at a board meeting Tuesday, going well beyond a $47.5 million deficit forecast for next year. The board could vote as soon as April 5.
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Bridget Lambright has high expectations and pushes her students at the Cleveland School of Science & Medicine on the John Hay Campus to succeed. Her work received the recognition of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., which announced Tuesday that Lambright is one of 10 national winners of the inaugural Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award.
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Cleveland school officials are seriously considering selling the historic building on East Sixth Street, though they as yet don't know where employees would move. The six-story, 161,672-square-foot structure is laid out inefficiently and requires extensive repairs, interim Chief Executive Officer Peter Raskind said Monday.
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The Cleveland Metropolitan SchoolDistrict recently joined forces with six Cleveland financial institutions to launch a new financial literacy education program for students.
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When companies can't meet their budgets, they change. In dire circumstances, that can mean heaving nonessential departments and personnel overboard to balance the books and keep the business afloat. Well, dire is the word for what confronts the Cleveland school district.
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Guest columnist Lynn Radcliffesays, "I am part of a team of Cleveland schools staff who advocate for and with the parents of special-needs children when they raise concerns about the education or services children are receiving."
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What qualities does the next leader of the Cleveland schools need to succeed? Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of the Washington, D.C., school district, offered a list during her visit here on Thursday:
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Peter Raskind, the interim CEO of the Cleveland Schools, says he’s not surprised by the cuts, but he admits they won’t make his efforts to close the district’s ooming $47 million deficit any easier.
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The conservative husband of a Cleveland schools teacher thanks his wife for working so hard to educate her children. Thankfully, this teacher is not an anomaly, says columnist Connie Schultz..
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The interim chief executive officer of the Cleveland schools is expected to recommend school closings and large-scale layoffs when he proposes sweeping spending cuts next week. CEO Peter Raskind won't give specifics until a school board meeting Tuesday but promises a "range of options" for ending a financial crisis. He is even pondering selling the district's historic downtown headquarters, near the site of Cleveland's new Medical Mart.
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The Cleveland school district's Interim CEO Peter Raskind said, "We are still sorting through the 774-page document to understand what it means and how it applies to us," said Raskind. "Our initial reaction is that the news is not good, but it is also not unexpected."
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In a fruitful move to let a handful of quality charter schools save costs by operating in some Cleveland public school buildings, school district officials propose to put unneeded structures off-limits to charters. That would be contrary to state law, which gives charter schools first dibs on buying such buildings.
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To find out whether Cleveland's Andrew J. Rickoff Elementary School has changed for the better, you have to ask a secretary or lunch aide. The principal and all the teachers are new. The district cleaned house at the East Side school after classes ended last June, in what appears to be Cleveland's first lasting "reconstitution." Then-Superintendent Richard Boyd tried the extreme tactic at two schools in 1997, but an arbitrator later ruled against him. This time the Cleveland Teachers Union signed off. The climate at Rickoff had deteriorated and was beyond salvaging, CTU President David Quolke said.
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Gov. John Kasich didn't say a lot about K-12 education in his State of the State speech last week. But two things he praised give a good indication of his thinking as he prepares to release his budget on Tuesday:
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A Cleveland School District plan for 30 closed buildings calls for slightly less than half to be torn down or used as storage. The rest would land in a classification that could be labeled "miscellaneous."
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Chief Jamie Oliver bringes his heart-heathy menus to Cleveland. Students at Oliver H. Perry School tryout new vegetables.
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Even if Ohio's collective-bargaining bill becomes law, the strong upper hand gained by management wouldn't touch the Cleveland Teachers Union until its contract expires in two years, the union's lawyer says. Others are not so certain. They say a pending reopener could render the contract vulnerable in a few months.
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School employees account for more than half of the public workers likely to lose collective-bargaining rights under Senate Bill 5, now marching toward passage in the Ohio General Assembly. That's about 196,000 teachers, aides, counselors, bus drivers, custodians and others who are trying to figure out where they'll stand as the balance of power abruptly shifts ward their bosses. Neither they nor the superintendents and school board members they work for know exactly what the final bill will say, as committee hearings begin this week in the Ohio House of Representatives.
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Senate Bill 5 stands to sweep away many of the rules that educators, administrators and school boards have worked under for decades. Here are some of the changes in the version of the bill passed by the Ohio Senate:
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Good reads on the Web about Senate Bill 5.
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At the start of each season, coach Chris Sanders leads his John Hay boys basketball team to a part of the school where a window overlooks several buildings near University Circle. "Over there is Cleveland Clinic with lots of good jobs and careers," he says. Then he pauses . . . "And over there is the juvenile detention center," Most of the John Hay players know where they want to go. At John Hay, they are serious -- about academics.
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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson returned to familiar themes about a city in transition during his annual State of the City address Thursday, but the furor in Columbus over proposed changes to collective-bargaining laws ended up taking center stage at Public Auditorium. Jackson's address did touch on two of the biggest challenges that face his administration -- the Division of Water and the city's public schools.
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Bullies don't stand a chance at Cleveland's Orchard STEM School. They're outnumbered by student mediators. The students at the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) elementary school decided to be defenders. They sent me a packet of letters about what they're doing to make their school safe for all:
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The door is wide open for the Cleveland schools' next chief executive officer to come from outside the field of education. A profile of what the district wants in the next CEO, released Monday, Feb. 28, by Mayor Frank Jackson, is loaded with leadership attributes that transcend boundaries. For example, it asks for experience in "managing complex change," "thinking outside the box" and skills useful in serving a diverse, impoverished community
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Former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro has been named the state's new chancellor of higher education. Petro's appointment was announced this afternoon by Gov. John Kasich. Petro, 62, currently an attorney in Columbus, served four years as attorney general beginning in 2003 and eight years as state auditor. In 2006 he lost in the GOP primary for governor.
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As part of Black History Month, we remember Central High School in Cleveland. The first free, public high school west of the Alleghenies, it enrolled black students before the Civil War.
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An analysis of 2009 science test scores in 17 major U.S. urban districts ranks Cleveland near the bottom. Cleveland beat out only Detroit on fourth-grade tests given nationwide, according to results released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics. The district's eighth-graders topped peers in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Detroit.
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CHEERS . . . to the Cleveland school board for its willingness to strengthen ties with Breakthrough Schools, a nonprofit charter school management group.
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The Cleveland School District is sticking mostly with known commodities as it moves to sponsor more charter schools. The school board is to vote March 8 on sponsoring three additional charters. The district also is poised to sign preliminary agreements with two other charter schools.
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The push is on to expand school voucher programs in Ohio, but new state data suggests that students who attend private schools with the help of taxpayer-funded vouchers don't necessarily fare better academically than the children they leave behind. Cleveland public school students often outperformed voucher students on 2009-10 state proficiency tests, according to data from the Ohio Department of Education.
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So now that Ohio voters have given their OK for casinos and construction is under way, how much tax money will be generated and who will get it once the casinos are in full operation?
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New data from the Ohio Department of Education shows the proportion of students getting free and reduced-price school lunches through a federal program has reached a record high.
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Peter Raskind has been in one of the region's most important and most challenging jobs-- interim CEO for the Cleveland Schools -- for just a couple weeks. Tom Beres, political reporter, discusses these issues with Raskind and Channel 3 Political Analysts Mary Anne Sharkey and Dennis Eckart on of Between the Lines.
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Peter Raskind, interim chief executive officer of the Cleveland schools, quickly discovered a couple of things: The heating system in the district's downtown headquarters has only two temperature settings -- warm and warmer -- and the culture is just as stuffy.
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Gov. John Kasich's new education adviser will work on a "parallel track" with state schools Superintendent Deborah Delisle, according to a spokesman for the governor. Time will tell whether adviser Robert Sommers and Delisle are actually on a collision course.
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In the two years since Congress made the federal government's largest one-time investment in public schools, change has begun to ripple through classrooms from coast to coast. Ohio is a prime example. The $3.2 billion awarded here - including Race to the Top funds - not only helped to balance the current budget but also has launched the state on a fundamental remaking of its system for training and evaluating teachers.
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Say goodbye to the Cleveland Scholarship Program, and hello to help that comes on stronger and earlier: College Now.
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Test results might not show it yet, but the federal School Improvement Grant program has changed 12 Cleveland public schools for the better, says Eric Gordon, the district's chief academic officer. "You can feel the difference when you walk into these schools," Gordon said in a recent interview. "The culture is different."
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Ohio has $400 million to spend on education reform over the next four years, as one of a dozen winners in the federal government's Race to the Top competition. More than half -- $206 million -- will be funneled to 437 participating districts and charter schools for efforts tied to the state goals. That leaves $194 million for the Ohio Department of Education to spend on these projects:
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A lot is riding on the $400 million that Ohio won last August in the Obama administration's Race to the Top competition. Over the next four years, the money will be used for massive data systems, new accountability for teachers and principals, and reinvention of the state's worst-performing schools.
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A $200,000 grant from the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation will allow the city school district to provide training and professional development to expand a program which helps young children understand their emotions.
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The Plain Dealer -- Got it covered: Interim Cleveland Schools CEO Peter Raskind is taking the same $1 salary he earned in the same role for the Port Authority. Last week, the school board put it in writing in a resolution in which it guarantees it has enough money to cover the salary.
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The findings are scant and preliminary, but early indications are that people want the next leader of the Cleveland schools to come with classroom experience, a feel for the community and ability to bridge differences in students and families.
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Cleveland Scholarship Programs has been around for 45 years, quietly working to help thousands of high school students become the first in their families to go to college. But with a new executive director and a new dose of support from corporate, government and foundation leaders, the program is stepping up its game. It starts with a new name: College Now Greater Cleveland.
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Clevelanders can disagree on whether the next chief of the city's public schools should be a business leader or an educator, someone who is solidly behind Cleveland's transformation plan or someone who wants to tweak it. But there should be full agreement that a district facing a $47.5 million deficit this school year and budget cuts from the state should not give the next schools chief the golden platter of perks enjoyed by just-departed CEO Eugene Sanders and his predecessor, Barbara Byrd-Bennett..
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The choral students at the Cleveland School of the Arts Lower Campus are heading to New York as one of nine youth ensembles from around the United States to sing in the 375-voice National Children's Choir on Sunday, Feb. 27, in Carnegie Hall's glorious Stern Auditorium.
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One thing Peter Raskind won't do as interim head of the Cleveland schools is make them worse. It's tough to foul up a system that's about to run out of money and already owns one of the nation's worst graduation rates. But without some help, another thing Raskind won't do for the schools is make them a whole lot better.
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Clevelanders can disagree on whether the next chief of the city's public schools should be a business leader or an educator, someone who is solidly behind Cleveland's transformation plan or someone who wants to tweak it. But there should be full agreement that a district facing a $47.5 million deficit this school year and budget cuts from the state should not give the next schools chief the golden platter of perks enjoyed by just-departed CEO Eugene Sanders and his predecessor, Barbara Byrd-Bennett.
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The Plain Dealer -- The Cleveland school board will pay former Chief Executive Officer Eugene Sanders more than $110,000 for his unused vacation days. The payment is determined by multiplying $1,096, Sanders' daily rate of compensation in the last year, by the 100.6 days he says he did not take during a tenure that began on July 1, 2006. Sanders' contract entitled him to six weeks' vacation annually.
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Mayor Frank Jackson on Monday released the names of the 28 committee members charged with creating a profile for Eugene Sanders' successor. Will it be an academic capable of lifting lowly test scores? A corporate type whose business skills can pull the district back from the brink of financial ruin? A hybrid of the two?
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Today was Dr. Eugene Sanders' last day at work as the head of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. He has resigned after four and a half years on the job.
He got the district its first "Continuous Improvement" ratings by the state. He says there will be a double-digit increase in graduation this year and believes the district must pass a levy. Sanders says he will travel, maybe write, and stay in Cleveland for now. Sanders is also in the running to be President at Bowling Green State University.
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If asked to grade Eugene Sanders' tenure as chief executive officer of the Cleveland schools, you might give him an "incomplete." He left behind a lot of unfinished business. Sanders put kids in uniform and opened innovative schools, added security officers and metal detectors citywide after the shootings at SuccessTech Academy, and launched an initiative to fortify children's self-esteem and ease their angst. Twice, the district achieved "continuous improvement," a state ratings toehold. And he fanned a sense of urgency around the desperate need for academic reform in Cleveland, culminating in his new "transformation plan."
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Cleveland schools Chief Executive Officer Eugene Sanders said goodbye and thank you today to central office employees. He also introduced them to the banker who will serve as his interim replacement.Sanders, whose retirement takes effect Tuesday, remained vague about his plans for the future.
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Some turnarounds take forever. Others take place seemingly overnight. Put the about-face taking place at John Hay in the latter category. The school didn't have basketball for five years because it was closed for renovations. It reopened last year, and the Hornets played a restricted schedule. Understandably, they finished with a 4-12 record. Head coach Chris Sanders was not discouraged and began building a program.
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Ohio got its $400 million in federal Race to the Top money yesterday after federal regulators approved the state's plan for spending the money. Just over half, $206million, will be distributed over the next four years to the 487 school districts and charter schools that agreed to participate in planned initiatives.
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A deficit that the Cleveland schools face next year has shrunk by nearly $11 million, but officials say the need for more money and drastic restructuring isn't going away. Options presented to the school board on Tuesday night include raising property taxes; cutting staff, salaries and benefits; selling buildings; contracting for services; replacing traditional schools with privately managed charter schools; and even going to four-day workweeks spread over a longer year.
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Since their inception in 1997, charter schools have been at the center of some of the most politically contentious debates in Ohio. This debate too often has been characterized by two competing camps. One side typically has been organized labor (the teacher unions), many Democrats and citizens groups believing charter schools represent a threat to public schools. The other side tends to be business -- represented by large, profit-making school management companies, free-market oriented individuals (often Republicans), as well as activists of all political stripes who advocate for educational equity.
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Cleveland's South High School closed last year but could reopen as a different kind of a neighborhood anchor if district officials agree to a lease. The Broadway P-16 Initiative wants to take over at least part of the school and convert it into a community center. The group's name derives from a main thoroughfare in the Slavic Village area and an intent to successfully usher youths from preschool to college or work.
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The Cleveland schools will be among the first in the United States to follow national standards for achievement in math and English. Forty states have adopted "common core" standards that take effect in 2014. The initiative, led by governors and state education chiefs, is designed to provide more consistent and challenging benchmarks for student knowledge and skills, on par with expectations in other countries.
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The Cleveland school district wants to join forces with charter schools, and the first recruits are ready to enlist. Response to an offer of district sponsorship wasn't overwhelming -- six groups applied to start 10 new schools. And national operators mostly stayed away from the initial solicitation, perhaps because next school year is fast approaching or because the system's impending leadership change and daunting financial challenges have created uncertainty.
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More and more school districts across the nation are turning to leaders outside of academia to take the helm. With the interim appointment of Peter Raskind, the former CEO of National City Bank, the Cleveland public schools become a part of that intriguing trend. At least for the moment.
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Although students had the day off at Cleveland's Lincoln West High School, the buildings first floor was bustling with volunteers, sanding and painting hundreds of lockers for students in the school's Community Wrap Around Academy.
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The Plain Dealer -- Dr. Julian Earls, left, executive in residence at Cleveland State University, and Cedric Thorbes, senior at Glenville High School, receive the adult individual and youth individual community service awards for 2011 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Concert, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011, at Severance Hall in Cleveland.
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Plain Dealer -- As the first snow of the season fell outside the International Newcomers Academy, teacher Samuel Roman's fifth- and sixth-graders turned their attention away from math and stared in wonder. Most had never seen the stuff. Seizing a chance to wrap a science lesson in some fun, Roman gave the order to don coats and head outdoors. The giggling youngsters tried to catch the flakes in mittens or on their tongues;. Learning experiences pile up like snow at the new Cleveland public school, which opened in August.
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Peter E. Raskind, the former chairman and CEO of National City Corp., has been named interim CEO of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. In announcing the appointment, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said Mr. Raskind “has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to our community, and I believe that he will provide the type of leadership necessary at this juncture.”
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Former National City Bank chief Peter Raskind will guide the Cleveland school district while it searches for a new leader. The school board voted Thursday to appoint Raskind as its interim chief executive officer, replacing Eugene Sanders when Sanders retires at the end of the month.
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Clawing to get out of deep financial trouble -- and stay out of it -- Cleveland school officials and business leaders from the Greater Cleveland Partnership are discussing everything from declaring bankruptcy and breaking into smaller systems to casting the district in its own TV reality show. For the moment, all the suggestions are just the products of brainstorming, and not all will receive serious consideration. Some could require the approval of voters, unions or state legislators.
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Cleveland schools Chief Executive Officer Eugene Sanders met with principals Tuesday, thanking them for their help during the 4½ years he was in charge and encouraging them to stay the course after he retires at the end of the month.
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Magen Greer, a student advocate, youth leader, and stellar scholar and athlete at East Technical High School, was the recipient of the “I Am EMPOWERED” Award for her commitment to service at the National Urban League’s 54th Equal Opportunity Day awards dinner. Magen, her father Fazular Rahmon, and Danyll Lockhart, education and youth director for the Urban League of Greater Cleveland, accepted the award in New York City.
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The Cleveland schools need a new chief executive officer -- and, apparently, a superhero. A composite profile provided by community leaders and others calls for Eugene Sanders' successor to do it all.
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What does it take to lead the Cleveland public schools? Sanders' recent abrupt announcement that he's retiring in February is an opportunity to widen the scope. And this time, the schools CEO search must strive for someone who can promise continuity at the top, as well as accountability, proven risk-taking and a touch of financial magic.
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Children enrolled as first-graders in Cleveland public schools in 1998 -- the year Cleveland's mayor was given control of the school district -- are scheduled to graduate this spring. The operative word here is "scheduled," because in Cleveland only slightly more than half of those who enroll in a Cleveland public school bother sticking around to get a diploma.
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Regina Brett refects pm the departure of CEO Eugene Sanders.
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Gov.-elect John Kasich will give Cleveland school reform a chance to work but will push for a state takeover of the district if it fails. He did not set a deadline for improvements but said he wouldn't wait four years, the length of an Ohio governor's term.
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Last year -- three years into his tenure as head of the struggling Cleveland schools -- Eugene Sanders said he wanted to stay on until at least 2016. Six months ago, he accepted a three-year extension -- until 2014 -- including a continuation of generous contract terms, such as the right to quit at any time. His base salary was a healthy $263,000 plus benefits. Sanders seemed to understand the imperative of having a long-term leader at the head of a troubled school district facing unprecedented change he himself had championed. Six months later, Sanders appears to have forgotten his own words and the benchmarks he set.
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Cleveland schools Chief Executive Officer Eugene Sanders confirmed today that he will retire Feb. 1, less than six months after launching a reform plan he has called the most important work of his career. And while he said the school district will move ahead with that transformation plan, Sanders said little about what he'll do next.
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Cleveland schools Chief Executive Officer Eugene Sanders confirmed today that he will retire Feb. 1, less than six months after launching a reform plan he has called the most important work of his career. And while he said the school district will move ahead with that transformation plan, Sanders said little about what he'll do next.
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Mayor Frank Jackson has a tentative timetable for choosing a new CEO.
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The Cleveland Teachers Union and Cleveland Metropolitan School Distridct administrators are peacefully meeting on one of the most contentious topics in education -- evaluating teachers. Union President David Quolke, who had complained the meetings were taking too long to arrange, says he's "pleasantly surprised" that the talks have begun in a spirit that's both amicable and substantive.
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The Cleveland Teachers Union and Cleveland Metropolitan School Distridct administrators are peacefully meeting on one of the most contentious topics in education -- evaluating teachers. Union President David Quolke, who had complained the meetings were taking too long to arrange, says he's "pleasantly surprised" that the talks have begun in a spirit that's both amicable and substantive.
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Cleveland schools Chief Executive Officer Eugene Sanders plans to step down, a stunning decision coming just as his much heralded academic "transformation plan" is getting off the ground. Sanders, 53, will retire at a date that is not firm but could come as early as February, Mayor Frank Jackson said Saturday.
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If Greater Cleveland is to soar, it needs to get smarter. It needs to adopt a culture of college that begins when children walk into their first classroom, that encourages them at every step to dream big and that prepares them to reach those goals. It needs College Now.
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The division of Lincoln-West High School into separate academies, including a satellite location for ninth-graders, has benefited the school, as had the infusion of new teachers.
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Like many households in America, the Cleveland public schools face both immediate and long-term money woes. The school district anticipates a $58 million operating deficit this year and a sea of red ink beyond -- and its school construction funds are dwindling. Unlike most American families, the Cleveland schools can ask voters for more money. Unfortunately, schools CEO Eugene Sanders ) did not make such a straightforward case at the district's first community meeting last Monday, at Langston Hughes Center
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From newscasters to comedians, many have had their chance to weigh in on LeBron’s decision. Some of those most affected by LeBron’s move were the children who looked up to him. Tyrone Ellis, an 11-year-old 5th-grader from Cleveland’s Wade Park K-8 School, and his America SCORES Cleveland (SCORES) teammates represent those children. On Nov. 19, it is their chance to be heard.
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Cleveland school officials will go out into the community to talk about the district's worsening financial outlook.
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Cleveland: Former VP Al Gore challenges STEM students in town hall meeting, More than 150 students from Akron and Cleveland attended the event at the Great Lakes Science Center.
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Business leaders, while supportive of the CMSD Transformation plan, are holding back on putting their money behind an ambitious initiative that may lack the financial legs to be carried out over the long haul.
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The Cleveland schools "transformation plan" has one nine-week grading period down and far to go before its effects can be judged. The only certainty so far is that it is very much a work in progress.
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Brigitte Bolgar, a Social Studies Teacher at CMSD's Cleveland School of Science & Medicine is honored to be a NewsChannel 5 Terrific Teacher!
More than 3,000 parents, school employees, volunteers and community leaders followed CEO Eugene Sanders' lead and welcomed CMSD students as they arrived for school Oct. 15. "The Plain Dealer" came to Woodland Hills PreK-8 school where Dr. Sanders greeted students and spoke to parents.
Districts and charter schools across Northeast Ohio are about to get nearly $75 million from Ohio's $361 million share of federal Education Jobs Fund money. The allocations were announced Tuesday by Gov. Ted Strickland and State Superintendent Deborah Delisle. The U.S. Department of Education estimated the fund would help hire or retain 5,500 teachers in Ohio, although the actual number of jobs will depend on how districts decide to use the stimulus money.
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One of the city's 10 "turnaround schools" hasn't turned around, so the district replaced the principal and will do the same with all of the teachers. Officials have decided that an extreme option known as reconstitution is the only solution for academic failure and other entrenched problems at Andrew J. Rickoff Elementary School.
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