July 2007
Cleveland schools must shrink construction plans »
Cleveland system must lower cost, size of projectsThe Cleveland Plain Dealer Joseph L. Wagner Plain Dealer Reporter Eugene Sanders is trying to solve a billion-dollar Rubik’s Cube puzzle. To line up the colors, he’ll have to find a way to downsize the school district’s construction plan from 111 to about 80 schools. The Ohio School [...]
Cleveland students get new dress code, single-gender schools »
Sanders details new dress policy, Ginn Academy for boys The Cleveland Plain Dealer 7/25/2007 Angela Townsend Plain Dealer Reporter In an early kickoff to the new school year, Cleveland schools Chief Executive Eugene Sanders hosted a news conference Tuesday that briefly morphed into a fashion show. The district’s new uniform policy and next month’s opening [...]
Ohio colleges say aid increase will bring minor boost »
The Plain Dealer Janet Okoben Plain Dealer Reporter Ohio families will get a break on their public-college tuition bills over the next two years. But the extra money the state is providing in exchange for a tuition freeze won’t give much of a boost to university budgets, college leaders say. “It’s revenue-neutral for us,” said [...]
Maverick Leads Charge for Charter Schools »
Los Angeles Times 7/24/2007 By SAM DILLON LOS ANGELES – Steve Barr, a major organizer of charter schools, has been waging what often seems like a guerrilla war for control of this city’s chronically failing high schools. In just seven years, Mr. Barr’s Green Dot Public Schools organization has founded 10 charter high schools and [...]
New charter-school rules won’t keep out KIPP »
The program for under-served kids focuses on more time in classroom. Suburban News 7/19/2007 By JENNIFER NOBLIT A national organization sponsoring charter schools focused on helping students through extended classroom time won’t be hindered by new rules in the state budget. The moratorium imposed on new charter schools in Gov. Ted Strickland’s original two-year state [...]
