CLEVELAND – Freshmen and sophomore students at one innovative Cleveland high school are learning to be entrepreneurs not by studying text books, but by opening their very own coffee shop. From designing the menu to customer service to bookkeeping, Lawyer’s Cafe is run entirely by high schoolers, with the help of faculty advisors, at John Marshall […]
Let’s face it, you do all the cooking, but the turkey is the star of the show. While Thanksgiving is supposed to be about friends and family, it’s the food and bird everyone talks about. You’ll probably spend hours preparing delicious dishes and mouth-watering meats for an intimate group of people tomorrow night — impress […]
Meet Julia. She has big green eyes, orange hair and she also has autism. According to TODAY, Julia is the newest character from the Sesame Workshop. She is a relatable character for children with autism or children who know someone with autism. ‘Sesame Street and Autism: See Amazing in All Children’ was released on Wednesday. “Children with […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Cleveland Play House (CPH) was one of just 18 organizations awarded new Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) grants by the U.S. Department of Education. The initial grant of $444,050 will be part of the four-year $2,000,000 total to fund CPH’s new Compassionate Arts Remaking Education (CARE) program. […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Horseshoe Casino Cleveland will host a second Table Games Academy to fill 130 part-time positions for table games dealers. Applications are still being accepted for the academy, which starts Aug. 25. “Summer is a busy time for a lot of people, so we decided to host a second, free table […]
Legendary photographer Jonathan Mannion is a real G if you subscribe to Lil Wayne‘s logic of real Gs moving in silence like lasagna. Although having been in the game since the early nineties, many don’t recognize the name, but they damn sure know the work. If you’ve ever spent time looking at the photos in […]
SUMMIT COUNTY (WOIO) – Older teens currently under foster care in Summit County will be taking part in a character and literacy building program created by local author and former sports writer David Lee Morgan Jr. “MVP, Most Valuable Person Youth Character and Literacy” program will be used as part of Summit County’s Connecting […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – On Thursday, March 6, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District announced their ten new “Investment Schools“. This is part of the district’s initiative to transform underperforming schools by providing extra funding and attention where needed the most. The news conference was held at Robert H. Jamison School, 4092 E. 146th St. […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Breaking away with the traditional, Franklin D. Roosevelt Academy has a pool table in the center of its school. In fact, it a game room. They are also building learning stations, computer rooms and adding to its library. They are sharing the space with the Boys and Girls Clubs. Its Director of operations Allen […]
CLEVELAND – More than 50 students at Lincoln West in Cleveland got their hands dirty, planting vegetables and learning some important lessons about the environment. Students from kindergarten through third grade with the “Earth Explorers” program worked on a dozen box gardens in the school parking lot. The students represented all three schools housed within […]
BEREA, OH (WOIO) – Baldwin Wallace University is not just talking about sustainable living. Thursday, the University opened the doors on a new dorm that expects students to live the lifestyle. 47 students moved into Harding House on the BW campus Thursday morning. And it’s not your everyday dorm. There’s a greenhouse, a still under construction straw bale shed, […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - 19 Action News has been following the Chardon tragedy since it broke Monday morning. The story has been making national headlines and we've found some local officers who had already been training for a situation like this. They have been learning new ways to handle what police call an active shooter. All Cleveland cops recently received an eight page order explaining what to do if a gunman is rampaging through a school or mall or even a sporting event. Cleveland police are relying more than ever on patrol officers -- counting on them to confront a gunman instead of waiting for a SWAT team.
