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  • Teachers under stress in Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s Investment Schools

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, December 2017)        At the November 21st meeting of the Cleveland Board of Education, educational advocate Don Freeman, for the third month in a row, brought up the issue of the stress that the teaching staffs at Cleveland’s twenty-three investment schools are experiencing. Freeman emphatically said, “Professionals, by that I…

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  • Investment school meeting offers a look at progress made and obstacles faced at Lincoln West High School

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, March 2014) About sixty people gathered at a February 13th evening meeting at Lincoln West High School to receive a report on the status of the school in its second quarter as an Investment School. The crowd –of school staff, students, parents and community members– received a variety of statistical…

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  • Near West Side Community Council members step up to the plate to get involved with investment schools

    by Chuck Hoven (Plain Press, January 2014) Members of the Near West Side Community Council (NWSCC) have stepped up to the plate to get involved in working to assure that the effort to improve the academic performance of students in Near West Side investment schools proves to be a success. NWSCC member Esperanza, led by…

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  • Lincoln West students shine in the city of Brotherly Love

    Lincoln West students shine in the city of Brotherly Love (Plain Press, January 2014) In November of 2013, two Lincoln-West High School students, Kamelia Premsook and Amber Douglas, made presentations at the Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC) in Philadelphia, PA. During the Poster Presentation segment of the three-day regional meeting, Amber Douglas, a Lincoln West…

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