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 Facilities Commission, which is providing […]

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 of five single-gender schools - including […]

 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 Michael Devlin, a spokesman […]

 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 has won approval to […]

 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 budget was not approved. […]