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  • Cleveland School Board votes for a more restrictive public participation policy

    by Chuck Hoven      (Plain Press, November 2023) Many observers of the Cleveland Municipal School District Board of Education are wondering why, with all the important issues the Board needs to address, new School Board Chairperson Sara Elaqad has chosen to initiate a pilot program that increases the restrictions on Public Comment. Elaqad, recently appointed…

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  • Teacher calls for funds to be restored to Comprehensive Extracurricular Activities Plan

    by Errol Savage    (Plain Press, November 2023) The Comprehensive Extracurricular Activities Plan (CEAP), funded by the citizens of Cleveland for the benefit of children, is being robbed. COMMENTARY    Back in the 1990s our football stadium was built by taxpayers; the private owners of the stadium received a lifetime exemption from paying property taxes…

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  • Artemus Ward School celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Thursday, October 5, 2023; Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, Artemus Ward School cafeteria, 4315 W. 140th Street: A young girl prepares to fill her maracas (hand shaken rattles) from a selection of various beans and seeds. PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Thursday, October 5, 2023; Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, Artemus Ward School cafeteria,…

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  • Civics 2.0 students plead for funding for their program

    by Chuck Hoven    (Plain Press, November 2023) Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) students that participate in the extracurricular Civics 2.0 program came out in force to testify at the September meeting of the Cleveland Municipal School District Board of Education. The students were advocating for restoration of funding for their extracurricular program. During the…

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  • Cudell residents save historic trees for now

    PHOTO BY MARY JO HOVEN Monday, September 4, 2023; Cudell Commons Park, W. 98th Street, just North of Madison Avenue: A view of the Bald Cypress tree from below. The tree is one of about forty mature trees that Friends of Cudell Commons Park would like to save from being torn down to make way…

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  • Protesters urge Board of Education to save trees at Cudell Commons Park

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Tuesday, August 22, 2023; Cleveland Metropolitan School Board Meeting; East Professional Center, 1349 E. 79th; Faouzi Baddou, Nikki Hudson and James Pieknik, Friends of Cudell Commons Park, protesting the planned demolition of a historic cypress tree in the Cudell neighborhood. by Chuck Hoven    The Friends of Cudell Commons Park came…

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  • Residents Rally to save historic trees

    PHOTO BY CASANDRA VASU Cudell Commons Park, W. 98th Street, North of Madison: The Cleveland Metropolitan School District plans to build a new Marion C. Seltzer school in what is now Cudell Commons Park.  Plans call for eliminating trees to make way for the new school building. This Bald Cypress is one of the mature…

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  • Max Hayes student breaks new ground becoming a Carpenter’s Union Apprentice while still in high school

    This past school year, Max Hayes High School Senior Catherine Nelson worked as a Carpenter’s Union apprentice for Panzica Construction on a job at the Cleveland Natural History Museum.      Max Hayes Construction Program Instructor James MacDowell says in his nearly thirty years of teaching construction at Max Hayes, Nelson is the first student to…

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  • Cleveland School Board hosts its last meeting with Chief Executive Officer Eric Gordon at the helm

    At the June 27th Cleveland Board of Education Meeting, Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) Chief Executive Officer Eric Gordon tried to choke back tears as Cleveland School Board Chair Anne Bingham spoke of some of Gordon’s many accomplishments as the school district’s leader and led the crowd in a standing ovation for Gordon. Other Board…

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  • Davis Aerospace and Maritime students help cleanup floating debris from the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Tuesday, June 6, 2023; North Coast Harbor: Argonaut Captain Sam Landgraf and 10th grade Davis Aerospace and Maritime High School student Quinn Schumann aboard a barge towed by the Flotsam use their pikes to position a log so it can be hauled aboard by the Flotsam crane. PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN…

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