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Students from local high schools win CMSD scholarships
(Plain Press, September 2014) Two Lincoln West students and one Max Hayes student were among 13 Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) students awarded scholarships at the Army of Believers luncheon on August 1st. Students from citywide magnet schools were awarded the remainder of the scholarships. Yu “Mike” Zhang of Lincoln West High School was awarded…
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Lincoln West grad completes Navy basic training
(Plain Press, September 2014) August 20,2014(FHTNC)–Navy Seaman Austin M. Howells, a 2104 graduate of Lincoln West High School recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. Howells is the son of Darren L. Seastrand of Cleveland, Ohio. During the eight-week program, Howells training included classroom study and practical instruction on…
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Newspaper, Connecting Cleveland, helps Nepali-speaking Bhutanese community to connect in Greater Cleveland and around the world
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, August 2014) In January of 2014, six Lincoln West High School students collaborated to publish the first edition of Connecting Cleveland, a newspaper serving the Nepali-Speaking Bhutanese community in Greater Cleveland and beyond. Hari Kumar Dahal, an eleventh grade student at Lincoln West at the time the first issue was…
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Cleveland bilingual students sharpen English in summer school
(Plain Press, August 2014) CMSD NEWS BUREAU 7/3/2014 Students attending summer school at Thomas Jefferson International Newcomers Academy this summer, worked to bring their reading up to grade level while also mastering a new language. Nearly 40 students who were in the second and third grades during the 2013-14 school year took part in a…
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Standardized tests drive Cleveland Transformation Plan
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, August 2014) Under current local, state and national educational policy, Clevelanders are being asked to measure their public and charter schools and judge their teaching staffs based on the scores on standardized tests. While the standardized tests may help to compare schools, they do little to help individual students to…
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Funds promised Cleveland school children cut, while Cleveland stadium allocation is increased
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, July 2014) On June 28, 1995, Cleveland City Council passed resolution number 1025-A-95 allowing that revenue from levying a parking facility tax, and revenue from increases in the motor vehicle lessor tax and the admissions tax “can be used to fund recreational, cultural and extracurricular programs within the Cleveland School…
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Lincoln West Wolverines win Senate baseball championship for 3rd consecutive year
(Plain Press, July 2014) For the third year in a row, the Lincoln West High School Wolverines won the Senate Baseball Championship thanks to a spectacular defensive performance in the seventh and final inning of the game. In a game played in May on Progressive Field in Downtown Cleveland, Lincoln West won 7-6 over Rhodes…
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School District works to increase number of students meeting third grade reading guarantee
(Plain Press, July 2014)According to the latest announcement by the Cleveland Metropolitan School District,nearly 80 percent of CMSD third-graders complied with Ohio’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee during the 2013-14 school year, roughly doubling the number who met the standard in the fall. As of October, only 40 percent of third-graders had scored well enough on…
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