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Max Hayes construction students discuss lessons learned
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Thursday, May 23, 2024; Max Hayes High School Trade Show, Max Hayes High School, 2211 W. 65th Street: Max Hayes Construction Program Instructor urges his tenth-grade students to tell guests about some of the projects they worked on this school year. Guests at the trade show included individuals who work in…
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Cleveland City Council summary of May 6th meeting
(Plain Press June 2024) City Council held its regular meeting on Monday May 6th, both in person in Council Chambers and live streamed. Here are the highlights: A Cleveland Legend, a New Landmark: Council approved designating the Jesse Owens House as a Cleveland Landmark. The house, 2178 East 100th St., was where he lived while…
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Connecting for Kids names Amy McElwain 2024 Educator of the Year (photo)
PHOTO COURTESY OF CONNECTING FOR KIDS Connecting for Kids named Amy McElwain as its 2024 Educator of the Year for going “above and beyond as an educator for students with disabilities, including planning camping trips and leadership training for students.” McElwain is a resident of Cleveland and Director of Operations and School Administration for The…
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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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Tax incentives waste resources and cripple efforts to end child poverty
By Chuck Hoven (Plain Press January 2024) The City of Cleveland’s policies are not only not producing growth in population, but they are also driving people out of the city. One resident opposed to an inappropriate development proposed for Lorain Avenue and some residential areas north of Lorain between W. 45th and W. 44th…
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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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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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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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