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  • Collaborative for a Fair, Safe and Just Cleveland works for inclusion of citizens in efforts to reform Cleveland Police Division of Police

    by Chuck Hoven.  (Plain Press, January 2015) Over seventy people attended the December 20th meeting of the Collaborative for a Fair, Safe and Just Cleveland. The group’s agenda includes working on a set of demands to address excessive use of force by Cleveland police, and working to make sure citizens are stakeholders in a long-term…

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  • Issue 4: What does passage mean for neighborhood schools?

    (Plain Press, November 2014) Issue 4 on the November 4th Ballot asks Cleveland voters to extend the bond issue originally passed by Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) voters in 2001. Since Issue 4 is a renewal, the district stresses it will not raise taxes. The CMSD notes that the bond issue will cost the owner…

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  • Madison’s Pathway Garden of All Seasons brightens corner of W. 105th and Madison

    (Plain Press, September 2014) Neighborhood residents have transformed the corner of West 105 and Madison into the Madison’s Pathway Garden of All Seasons. The effort to change a vacant lot into a flower garden began in 2010 when W. 105th Street resident Clarissa Thompson approached Cudell Improvement Executive Director Anita Brindza to seek permission to…

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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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  • July 2014 Issue of the Plain Press

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  • School Board passes draft of facilities plan extension

    (Plain Press, July 2014) After a series of Facilities Plan Open Houses where residents and stakeholders were asked to rank various scenarios in their school’s cluster, the Cleveland School Board met for three hours, on Monday June 23rd, to discuss various options and vote to approve a draft of a facilities plan extension at its…

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  • Hillary Clinton meets Westside Community House Teenagers

    PHOTO BY PAUL JEFFREY FOR UNITED METHODIST WOMEN April 26, 2014; United Methodist Women’s Assembly, Kentucky International Convention Center, Louisville, Kentucky: Hillary Rodham Clinton greets 13—year old Christina Robinson and other members of the Summer of Sisterhood, a musical group from the Westside Community House in Cleveland, Ohio. Clinton, a lifelong member of United Methodist…

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  • Senior Luau

    PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE Friday, May 9, 2014, West Side Community House, 9300 Lorain Avenue: Sherwin Williams’ volunteers and Senior Center members who participated in the Best Costume Awards at the Luau de Mayo. Sherwin Williams’ volunteers served as the judges in the contest. Volunteers also helped with the games, interacted…

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  • Pony Ride and Spring Celebration, Denison Avenue United Church of Christ,

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Palm Sunday, April 13, 2104; Pony Ride and Spring Celebration, Denison Avenue United Church of Christ, W. 99th and Denison: Zahara Ibrahim, age 6, rides the pony Ariel, while her brother, Joe Abrahim, age 10, walks along the side. Two staff members from Coventry Farm in Strongsville guide Ariel.

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  • Be Your Own Hero 5KRace and 1 mile run

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, April 12, 2014; Be Your Own Hero 5KRace and 1 mile run, West Side Community House, W. 93rd and Lorain Avenue: Winners of the Best Costume were Karen Pavlisko as Mario and Mike Grande as Luigi of the Nintendo Video game Mario Brothers.

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