Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s package of proposed legislation to revamp the Cleveland school system doesn’t yet have a sponsor. But Democratic and Republican state lawmakers were comfortable enough with the proposed to stand with Jackson at a Columbus press conference yesterday and say things about the plan such as “I support 70 percent of it.” [...]
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has introduced a package of proposed legislative changes that would bring sweeping changes to the state’s second-largest school district. It includes provisions prohibiting tenure for new teachers and allowing the school district to share future tax levy proceeds with some charter schools. Yesterday, Cleveland Teachers Union officials told Cleveland’s city council that they were [...]
The package of new legislation Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson says will once again “transform” Cleveland’s schools would create a new nonprofit group to make significant changes to the school district, including drawing together both traditional public schools and charter schools. But unlike school boards for both traditional public and charter schools, that new group would not [...]
The changes to state law that Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and a group of Cleveland organizations expect one lucky state lawmaker to introduce next week are supposed to ensure that Cleveland has “more high quality schools for all children.” That’s school district CEO Eric Gordon’s description.
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has a bold new plan for the city’s schools. Jackson and school officials hope to make Cleveland a model of education reform for the rest of the state to follow.
Two years after approving a “transformation plan” that called for the Cleveland school district to “stay the course in a long, difficult journey,” Cleveland’s mayor has a new plan to improve Cleveland schools. In this document, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson lays out what state lawmakers would need to do to make his plan happen. (Cleveland is [...]
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that one of the issues at stake in negotiating a new contract for Cleveland teachers is performance pay: Negotiation documents obtained by The Plain Dealer show that the district continued to press for merit pay. Those documents from the State Employment Relations Board (SERB) also show that the district, as [...]
As people take the time to actually read the state budget, they’re learning more about what’s actually packed into its thousands of pages. The latest revelation from the Plain Dealer: The state budget passed last week allows any Cleveland school converted to a charter to be exempt from collective-bargaining rules after an existing contract with [...]
Democratic Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and incoming Cleveland Schools CEO Eric Gordon are urging Gov. John Kasich and top legislative leaders to reinstate merit pay for teachers in the state budget. They wrote in a Monday letter: “The teacher effectiveness provisions contained in the House-passed version of the operating budget move significantly toward establishing a [...]
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