CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – For four years, more than a dozen students from Saint Joseph Academy have given up their lunch time twice a week to travel to Douglas MacArthur Girls’ Leadership Academy (pre-K through 8th grade) in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District to tutor the grade school and middle school students in such […]
CLEVELAND – As was expected Wednesday morning, Cleveland City Council members approved newly drawn ward maps. The new boundaries keeps the Tremont neighborhood in two wards instead of three. It also strengthens the Hispanic voting block in Ward 14. The new ward ordinance passed by a vote of 14-4. The number of wards were reduced […]
MEDINA, Ohio – Medina residents, angry over spending by school school board members and benefits in the contract of Superintendent Randy Stepp, will protest outside of the high School at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. The protest will take place a half hour before a scheduled board meeting. Mark Kuhar, who created Medina City Schools Outrage Page […]
CLEVELAND – Cleveland City Council members met Tuesday, voting 17-2, approving the new ward boundary maps. The special meeting took place in the council chamber in city hall at 9 a.m. There has been some controversy with the new boundary lines that make up wards in Cleveland because it changes districts, dropping from 19 to […]
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio – The mayor of Strongsville called on the district’s teachers’ union and school board members to meet Friday, and negotiate a deal to end the teachers’ strike that’s now in its third week. “It’s time for the posturing to stop, the rhetoric to stop, that’s enough,” said Mayor Thomas Perciak, who addressed hundreds […]
CLEVELAND – Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District customers should expect an additional few dollars on their bill starting at the beginning of the year. On Thursday, sewer officials said they started out sending out more than a quarter of a million letters alerting people of the new charge that will go towards an $35 million […]
(WOIO) – Additional preliminary Local Report Card data for district, traditional school, community school and STEM schools were released Wednesday by the Ohio Department of Education (ODE). The updated spreadsheet includes preliminary district/school ratings, Performance Index and attendance rate information. Spreadsheets containing preliminary results can be found by clicking HERE. This spreadsheet will include all […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Tuesday, State Senator Nina Turner (D-Cleveland) issued the following statement reacting to the Ohio Senate’s approval of SB 335, legislation that would support Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson’s plan for transforming the city’s schools: “Today’s passage of Senate Bill 335 through the Ohio Senate is a watershed moment for the children […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Following the Cleveland Board of Education’s vote last Thursday to accept a plan recommended by a State Fact-Finder, CEO Eric Gordon said school officials are deeply disappointed to learn that the Cleveland Teacher’s Union voted to reject the independent Fact-Finder’s decision. The Fact-Finder recommended elimination of six paid holidays for teachers, […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – More than 500 Cleveland teachers were recently laid off. Now those remaining are being asked to give up some benefits as a recommendation by an independent fact finder. This is something that’s not going over well. Cleveland Schools CEO Eric Gordon sat down with me on WUAB 43 Forum this morning […]
CONNEAUT, OH (WOIO) – – A recent Conneaut High School graduate is going on to serve his country in the United States Air Force. 18-year-old Tyler Webster is hoping to take his girlfriend, Hannah Lower, to the prom before leaving for a three-year tour. The school district, however, is standing in their way. The problem is […]
CANTON, OH (WOIO) – 20 second graders and their bus driver injured in a school bus accident. It happened just before 1PM Monday on U.S. 30 near Trump Avenue SE. The bus hit a mobile trailer holding a directional arrow sign. There were more than 30 students on board the bus for Minerva School District. School officials […]