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School Board invites CMSD community to serve on interview panels, submit questions for CEO candidates
03/17/2023 -- There are three ways that community members can participate in the CEO candidate interviews when they begin next month.
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International educators visit CMSD to study ways the district is combating the digital divide
3/03/23 - A group of international educators recently visited CMSD to study ways the district is combating the digital divide. They came away impressed.
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Executive Grille opens to the public (Video)
2/27/23 -- The public can now make reservations to dine at the Executive Grille Restaurant on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
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Your help is needed spending MacKenzie Scott's gift to CMSD
2/24/23 -- Today, February 24th, the District announced the launch of The CMSD Get More Opportunities Fund website, which will serve as a portal through which students, teachers, and parents can apply directly for grants or make suggestions on how to use the $20 million gift.
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U.S. Department of Ed Deputy Sec. Visits CMSD (Video)
2/24/23 -- Deputy Secretary Cindy Marten says CMSD, her fourth stop on a eight-district tour, was chosen because of support programs the District has in place that not only help students excel academically, but also prepare them for careers in Cleveland and beyond.
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John Marshall Music Program awarded J Dilla Music Tech Grant to keep students rocking (video)
John Marshall School of Information Technology was recently awarded a J Dilla Music Tech Grant worth $55,000 from the Save The Music Foundation.
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New Executive Grille opens with VIP Event (Video, Photo Gallery)
2/8/23 - Guests had a chance to tour the new $6 million student-run restaurant and to watch the budding chefs in action.
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With Spring Training weeks away, two Cleveland Guardians honor a CMSD commitment
02/06/23 -- Guardian players Triston Mckenzie and Steven Kwan donned a different uniform this off season: The uniform of a mentor to CMSD students. Recently they met with 8th grade boys from Valley View Boy's Leadership Academy to talk about life and decision making.

National News
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Top education official visits Cleveland schools to share department's vision
FEB. 23, 2023 - Spectrum NEWS1 - U.S. Department of Education Deputy Secretary Cindy Marten visited Cleveland Metro Schools Thursday to share the department’s vision on how to improve education. Marten’s stop in Cleveland is part of her “Raise the Bar: Lead the World” tour.
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‘Adults Have Power. Students Don’t’: Cleveland Schools Aim Bias Lessons at Staff
May 15, 2022 - The 74million.org - The massive Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 drew calls for revamping what students are taught about racism, with demands for more Black history classes and for schools to ditch textbooks that gloss over uncomfortable historical events.
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NEW CAMPAIGN IS ENCOURAGING BLACK MEN TO BECOME EDUCATORS IN CLEVELAND
Feb. 14, 2022 BOTWC Staff - A new campaign is encouraging Black men to become educators in Cleveland, News 5 Cleveland reports.
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Cleveland's Promise
Cleveland.com is embedding two reporters with unprecedented access to a classroom at Almira Elementary School to show readers the enormous challenges of educating children in poverty and what the school district is doing to overcome them.
Local News
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U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education visits Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Feb. 23, 2023 - Channel 19 News - U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Cindy Marten will be stopping in Cleveland Thursday morning to visit the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, according to a press release. Marten is visiting Cleveland as part of her “Raise the Bar: Lead the World” tour, the release says.
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A conversation with Eric Gordon on dispelling the myths about teaching in urban environments: Cleveland’s Promise
Oct. 03, 2022 - By Cameron Fields and Hannah Drown, cleveland.com – At the height of the pandemic, while students everywhere grappled with remote learning, Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Eric Gordon noted that well-meaning outsiders were recognizing, for the first time, the deep inequities and barriers to education that a childhood in poverty imposes.
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Local groups unite amid rising youth violence with 'Stop the Violence' rally
Sept. 30, 2022 Taneisha Cordell, Channel 5 — Youth violence is on the rise throughout Northeast Ohio and the country including physical fights, threats of violence at school, and guns. Earlier this month, six students were arrested and four loaded handguns were recovered after a large fight outside of Euclid High School.
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Renaming Cleveland schools to excise names of those complicit in slavery and oppression
July 9, 2022 Cleveland.com - As part of a yearlong effort to purge the Cleveland public school system of names associated with oppressors, racists and slaveowners, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) board last week unanimously voted to change the names of three elementary schools next school year.
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Cavs and Goodyear Unveil Renovated Innovation Lab at Orchard STEM School
May 12, 2022 nba.com - Students at Orchard STEM School have a new Innovation Lab to learn and work in, thanks to the continued partnership between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
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New learning lab puts CMSD students on a 'level-playing field' with students from the 'burbs
May 11, 2022 News5Cleveland.com - Computers and equipment you'd once only find at high-tech companies are now landing in the hands of students in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. On Wednesday, the Almira K-8 School on the city's west side officially dedicated its new 5G learning lab.
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Jesse Owens uniforms unveiled for East Tech and Rhodes in time for Tuesday’s city track championships
May 11, 2022 Cleveland.com - The Rhodes and East Tech track and field teams got some new gear just in time for Tuesday’s city track championships.
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Inspirational teen surprised with internship at Cleveland Clinic's IBM Discovery Accelerator
May 4, 2022 News5Cleveland.com - We love it when good things happen to good people. Especially, when it’s the result of hard work. The Cleveland Clinic and IBM just surprised Cleveland high school student, Mussa Wisoba, 17, with an opportunity that'll help shape a future he's been working hard to create.