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Schools seek property tax increase, while the privileged few receive tax abatements and exemptions
To the editor: (Plain Press June 2024) So now the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) wants to reach deeper into homeowners’ pockets in the form of two tax increases, euphemistically called school “levies,” that hit average Cleveland residents especially hard because it’s clear that wealthy and privileged people are simply not paying their fair…
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Cleveland high school grads play a prominent role in CWRU protests
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Friday, May 17, 2024; Palestine Task Force Cle &Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) Encampment Sanctionee Press Conference, Cleveland Public Library Martin Luther King Jr. Branch, 1962 Stokes Boulevard: Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) – Ohio Chapter Fatah Odeh outlined ways Palestinian students and their organizations have been…
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Mayor reaches out to Friends of Cudell Park
To the editor: (Plain Press May 2024) On Monday, April 22nd, Earth Day, Mayor Bibb personally called members of the Friends of Cudell Commons Park group to convey that he’s been following what’s going on with Cudell Park and that the Mayor’s Office of Capital Projects (MOCAP) and CMSD are working on a new…
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Friends of Cudell Park bring their concerns to the Board of Education
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVENSunday, March 3, 2024; Friends of Cudell Commons Park rally and candlelight vigil, Cudell Commons Park just east of Cudell Recreation Center at Detroit Avenue and West Boulevard: Nikki Hudson, a member of Friends of Cudell Commons Park, speaks of plans to continue advocacy to save the park from becoming a school…
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Cudell family descendent urges Mayor Bibb to honor donor’s vision for Cudell Commons, keep green space forever
To the editor: Open letter to Mayor Justin Bibb, (Plain Press April 2024) My name is Gail Lundberg. I am a direct descendent of the Cudell family. Please take the time to hear my message re: Cudell Commons. LETTER Frank Cudell was a leading architect in the late 19th century. He devoted his…
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City of Cleveland breaks promises to Cleveland students
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press April 2024) In a March 11, 2024 article in Signal Cleveland titled “Cash-strapped Cleveland schools miss out on millions from tax abatements”, reporter Nick Castele notes that over the past five years “Cleveland schools lost out on a total of $201.8 million in abated taxes, or an average of…
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Dance Evert, CMSD debut innovative arts program
PHOTO COURTESY OF EVERT EDUCATION Students demonstrate triangles, and are perfecting their polygons using stretchy body bands, during “Geometry in Motion” Program. by Jennifer Morrison-Garza (Plain Press February 2024)Tom Evert of DANCE EVERT and Evert Education is partnering with Cleveland Municipal School District’s Clara E. Westropp School of the Arts, through an Artist in…
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Open letter urges Mayor Bibb to save Cudell Commons
To the Editor: (Plain Press February 2024) Dear Mayor Bibb and Area Leaders: We are writing to you to voice our concerns about Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s plans to build a new Marion Seltzer Elementary School on what is now parkland at Cudell Commons Park, land that was gifted to the City of Cleveland…
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School board meeting shows successes and failures
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press January 2024) The December 12th Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD0 Board of Education meeting held at the Cleveland School of the Arts in the University Circle neighborhood was a study in contrasts. The meeting was a report by Principal Michelle Perez on the Cleveland School of Science and Medicine;…
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Cleveland Metropolitan School District projects huge deficits beginning next school year
by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press December 2023) The Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s (CMSD)Five-Year Forecast projects huge deficits beginning in the 2024-25 Fiscal Year. Presented at the November 21st Board of Education meeting held at Max Hayes High School, the forecast indicates an unencumbered positive cash balance of $125.1 million at the end of this…
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