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  • Gund Foundation gives $950,000 to CMSD schools

    (Plain Press, September 2015) CMSD NEWS BUREAU:  The George Gund Foundation has awarded $950,000 to support new and innovative CMSD schools. The foundation approved $780,000 for three small high schools that make up the new John Marshall Campus, as well as the Cleveland High School for Digital Arts and the Cleveland School of the Arts.…

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  • Boys and Girls Club at Walton School offers an answer to students’ requests for their school

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, August 2015) The Boys and Girls Club at Walton School, 3409 Walton, seems to offer the perfect answer to requests for improvements at the school made by Walton students in a meeting at the school just over two years ago. At the end of the 2012- 2013 school year, Walton…

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  • West Side Boys and Girls Club works to keep students on track to graduate

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, August 2015) On June 30th, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Cleveland held a graduation party for seniors who graduated from high school this past year. The West Side Boys and Girls Club, located on Trowbridge in the Clark Fulton neighborhood, participated in the graduation party. According to Gaelen Bell,…

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  • MetroHealth to give students inside look at hospital careers

    (Plain Press, August 2015) CMSD NEWS BUREAU The MetroHealth System will give 50 to 75 ninth-graders at two high schools an inside look at a large Cleveland hospital and career opportunities in health care. The MetroHealth Scholars series, open to incoming ninth- graders at Lincoln-West and James Ford Rhodes high schools, will run from September…

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  • Demolition of old Watterson Lake goes forward

    REMAINDER OF BUILDING OPEN FOR CLASSES THIS YEAR (Plain Press, August 2015) CMSD NEWS BUREAU: The city of Cleveland is set to demolish the older, unoccupied section of Watterson-Lake School, but the work will be finished and the remainder of the building will be open when classes resume Aug. 17. A VIP tour of Watterson-Lake…

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  • Max Hayes Career and Technical High School Summer Camp

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  • Coalition forms to seek plans, tools and resources necessary for success at 23 Investment Schools

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, July 2015) On May 30th, the Cleveland Teachers Union (CTU) and Common Good Ohio hosted another Breakfast with CTU President David Quolke. The event held at the Breen Center at St. Ignatius High School featured a discussion between members of the teachers union, members of Common Good Ohio, and members…

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  • Paul Dunbar School seeks more students for arts infused program

    (Plain Press, July 2015) The Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s Paul Dunbar School at 2159 W. 29th Street, just South of Lorain Avenue in the Ohio City neighborhood, is actively recruiting new students for the 2015-2016 school year. Principal Sofia Piperis, just starting her second year as principal of the school, says the school, which serves…

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  • Poor schools blamed for decline in property value. To the editor:

    (Plain Press, July 2015) Almost Every other day someone gets killed in Cleveland – the Comeback City and no one is doing anything. Everyone in the photos in your paper is smiling. We have 19 Council Persons in City Hall making $80,000 a year salary. Other things: I’ve lived in Cleveland since 1991. I lived…

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  • Educators in Cleveland Teachers Union ask to be included in the planning process for Investment Schools

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, June 2015) Members of the Cleveland Teachers Union came in mass to the Cleveland Board of Education’s April meeting to protest new corrective action plans the district seeks to impose on teachers at the district’s 23 investment schools. An overflow crowd packed the Cleveland Board of Education meeting on April…

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