CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Students in Cleveland schools aren’t doing very well, according to the National Assessment of Educational Process. The NAEP report, out Thursday, shows how well CMSD students did on tests in February and March of 2013, last school year. Out of 21 large city districts in the nation, Cleveland students scores came in second […]
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 […]
Burton Carpenter is facing numerous charges despite passing a background check. WESTMINSTER, Colo. – An Adams 12 school bus driver accused of sideswiping a vehicle while transporting a freshman football team from a game was charged with driving under the influence on Monday. The Adams County district attorney said 57-year-old Burton Carpenter also faces charges […]
Tom and the crew open the show talking about the dispute between CBS and Time Warner, hot weather and spanks, and Houston searching for teachers.
Groundbreaking today for the new John Marshall High School in Cleveland. The school is located at 3952 West 140th Street. The project will cost $41.7 million. The new 207,182-square-foot high school will have a capacity of 1,260 students. Not everyone is happy about the new construction. Union workers were on hand, protesting the low construction […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A newly assigned Bolton Elementary School principal has already lost her position with the school after a post she made on Facebook. The woman, Erin Murphy, put a post on her Facebook page which read: “Just took ownership of the filthiest school full of some seriously decrepit looking teachers. They are […]
STRONGSVILLE – Thirteen teaching positions will be eliminated in Strongsville schools, according to our news partners at Strongsville Patch. They said declining enrollment means the district does not need as much staff. A Strongsville Patch article said Assistant Superintendent Cameron Ryba said it appears 10 teachers at the elementary school level and three at the […]
STRONGVILLE, Ohio – Dozens of parents waited outside Strongsville High School, cheering the teachers on Saturday night as they voted to ratify a tentative contract they agreed on Friday night. The head of the Strongsville SEA, Tracy Linscott, told NewsChannel 5 the teachers, “overwhelmingly” approved the new contract. Linscott said teachers and the superintendent had […]
SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio – Some students at Brush High School have been suspended after pranks were carried out on the last day of school for seniors. According to a news release from South Euclid Lyndhurst School Superintendent Linda Reid, a small number of students were involved with “the ritual of lighthearted senior pranks.” The district […]
CLEVELAND – A large fight at a vocational school on Cleveland’s east side prompted multiple ambulances to be dispatched to the scene. The incident happened just after 11 a.m. Friday at Jane Addams Business Career Center on East 30th Street. Cleveland police said officers were called to the school for a large fight, and EMS […]
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 […]
GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio – The Strongsville teacher strike is now making news in another Cleveland suburb. According to the North Eastern Ohio Education Association, someone threw a chunk of asphalt through its front main entrance doors in Garfield Heights between 5:30 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. Saturday, when the Strongsville BOE and SEA were supposed to […]