CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Teachers in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District have reached a tentative agreement with the district, preventing a planned strike which was set to begin on Thursday. “We worked hard to avoid any disruption to our students’ education,” said Cleveland Teacher’s Union president David Quolke in a statement. “We were able to […]
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 […]
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas- A Little Rock high school principal’s new set of rules for the school year is making headlines. A post made on August 10 on the Catholic High School for Boys Facebook page stated, “Welcome to Catholic High. We teach reading, writing, arithmetic, and problem-solving.” Along with the post was a sign that […]
CLEVELAND– Two people were injured during a shooting in front of a high school on Cleveland’s east side Tuesday afternoon, police say. It happened outside of Martin Luther King Jr. High School on East 71st Street. READ MORE: Fox8.com Article Courtesy of WJW Fox 8 News Cleveland Picture Courtesy of Getty Images
CLEVELAND– The Cleveland Teachers Union issued notice on Tuesday that it intends to strike starting at Sept. 1 at 6 p.m. The Cleveland Teachers Union Executive Board unanimously voted to strike. This comes one day after the first of class for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. The school system’s contract with teachers expired on June 30. Contract disputes involved […]
“It’s a night to remember.” Although prom might seem like a standard part of a high school student’s experience, the special night isn’t a reality for many teenagers who face financial burdens. But last Saturday, a group of 40 students from Chicago got the opportunity to attend a prom hosted by two local non-profit organizations, reports […]
President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative is the centerpiece of his plan. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says that young men of color in Detroit, as in other places, lack opportunities to use their talents. “Clearly, a city like Detroit, which is 83 percent African-American, can’t succeed unless its young people of color succeed,” he wrote […]
These 7th graders speak with authority on race, appropriation, and police brutality in a podcast assignment. Three charter school students in Honolulu, Hawaii created a cyber buzz earlier this week after their teacher tweeted their no fluff podcast conversation about racism and how it affects the population. The seventh-grade students, Isabella, Nokiya and Tia, who identify […]
Three 7th grade students in Honolulu took on race, privilege, and self-actualization in a podcast posted on Twitter by their teacher.
The judge said generations of Black students were harmed by unequal schools. Adecades-long school desegregation battle is over – generations after the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education. Late on Friday, a federal district court ordered the Cleveland School District in Mississippi to consolidate its Black and White secondary schools, the U.S. Department […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Cleveland firefighters and EMS were called to John Marshall High School around 10 a.m. after one student sprayed pepper spray in a classroom. The student was arguing with another student, when he pulled out the spray. All of the students in the classroom where the incident occurred were examined by EMS and none were […]
WESTLAKE, OH (WOIO) – An 18-year-old student at Westlake High School has been charged with a felony following a school fight. The fight broke out in the boys restroom Tuesday between a 17-year-old junior and an 18-year-old sophomore, according to police. The 17-year-old student is in the hospital with very serious head injuries. He was found by […]