An unprecedented approach to covering education: Cleveland's Promise
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Cleveland’s promise: For the past year, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District has granted Hannah Drown and Cameron Fields unprecedented access in Almira Elementary School to give readers a close view of the enormous challenges of educating children in poverty and what the school district is doing to overcome them. The first story highlight’s the school’s crisis response team, created to help kids cope after family traumas, including sisters whose parents were arrested one morning before school.
Trump power: Nearly two years after he lost his re-election bid, Donald Trump’s grip on the Ohio Republican Party remains as strong as ever, reports Andrew Tobias. The ex-president’s Saturday night rally in Youngstown included Gov. Mike DeWine, Senate candidate J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Frank LaRose, state Auditor Keith Faber and Pat DeWine, Pat Fischer and Sharon Kennedy, the three Republican justices running in this year’s Ohio Supreme Court races.
Today in Ohio: The two men vying to become Cuyahoga County’s next executive, Democrat Chris Ronayne and Republican Lee Weingart, shared vastly different governing philosophies and policies they would pursue if elected. We’re talking about their fiery debate with cleveland.com’s editorial board on Today in Ohio, cleveland.com’s daily half-hour podcast.
Toledo Democratic Rep Marcy Kaptur (top), and Republican JR Majewski of Port Clinton (bottom), both met with voters at the Fulton County Fair. (Sabrina Eaton, cleveland.com photos)
Ninth district: Toledo Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s congressional district has changed drastically and she faces a new challenger: Republican nominee J.R. Majewski, a Port Clinton nuclear industry veteran who has aligned himself with former President Donald Trump. Sabrina Eaton reports that if Kaptur defeats Majewski, she will become the longest-serving woman in the history of either congressional chamber.
Hydrogen market: Ohio and six other Midwestern states on Monday announced a coalition designed to help develop a hydrogen market in the region, with the goal of creating more jobs and reducing emissions of carbon and other pollutants, reports Jeremy Pelzer. Gov. Mike DeWine and his counterparts in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin set up a Midwestern Hydrogen Coalition to collaborate on creating a “robust Midwestern market” for hydrogen and ammonia produced with little or no greenhouse gas emissions.
Holocaust memorial: The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday approved legislation that would give the the Kol Israel Holocaust Memorial in Bedford Heights status as a national memorial, Sabrina Eaton reports. The bill’s sponsor, Warrensville Heights Democratic U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown, said that “at time of rising antisemitism, it is more important than ever to remember the history of the Holocaust and to learn from it.”
Performance index: Students in Solon and Rocky River tested better than any other public school district in the state, according to the performance index component of the 2022 Ohio school report cards released last week. Zachary Smith ranks the state’s 607 school districts.
Illegal dumping: The city of Cleveland will work with Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University on a solution for illegal dumping that’s powered by artificial intelligence. The end product ideally will provide new city-owned technology that Cleveland could use to identify people responsible for dumping, Courtney Astolfi reports.
Stimulus Watch: Cleveland City Council approved spending $13.3 million in COVID-19 stimulus dollars, aimed to help survivors of domestic and child abuse, improving childcare access and more, Lucas Daprile reports. The largest, single expense is for Starting Point, a nonprofit childcare referral agency, to provide signing and retention bonuses to childcare workers.
IT projects: After years of delays and millions of dollars in overruns, Cuyahoga County settled for a version of one major IT project as “workable,” on Monday, while it announced plans to abandon another. Kaitlin Durbin reports the Enterprise Resource Planning project to streamline county payroll and connect all county offices online will require more work and money going forward, but is otherwise complete, but the Harris System project to overhaul the county’s real property tax system has been terminated because “too many problems occurred.”
Small-business forum: Advance Ohio and cleveland.com are hosting a free event Oct. 5 to help small businesses grow their operations and find customers, reports Sean McDonnell.
Falls alerts: Up to 1 million Americans across the country suffer falls while in hospitals, risking broken bones and head trauma. In Columbus, a hospital reduced falls to zero in a select group of patients by giving them smart socks that detected when they were getting up unassisted, reports Julie Washington.
Top Nurses: Celeste Aviles, the winner of the Nurse Educator Award for cleveland.com’s Top Nurses, combines her two passions — nursing and education — as a nurse educator and medical assistant instructor at the nonprofit New Bridge Cleveland Center for Arts and Technology, Julie Washington reports.
A court-appointed psychologist sued a Summit County judge and sheriff's deputies in an incident in which the judge is accused of shoving the man, then telling the deputies the man was a security risk.
Judge sued: A Summit County judge argued with and shoved a court-appointed psychologist inside the downtown Akron courthouse, leading sheriff’s deputies to tackle and use a stun gun on the man for walking through an employee entrance at the courthouse, according to a lawsuit. Adam Ferrise reports psychologist Curtis Williams II accused Probate Court Judge Elinore Marsh Stormer of lying to investigators that Williams shoved her.
CMA: The once-conservative Cleveland Museum of Art plans to continue diversifying its art collection and staff to see more school children in the galleries, to see more exhibitions with immersive digital displays, and to see guards in new, more casual uniforms. Steven Litt reports the highlights of a new strategic plan aimed at making Ohio’s biggest and wealthiest art museum more approachable, more audience-centered, and more representative of global cultures and overlooked areas of art history while maintaining high standards of scholarly and artistic quality.
Michael Heaton: Michael Heaton, known to Plain Dealer readers as the “Minister of Culture,” has died, reports Marc Bona. Heaton, 66, died at home.
RV Rocking: Northeast Ohio’s favorite RV-ing couple, Jeff and Patti Kinzbach, are putting the brakes on their travels for just a bit because of repairs, Marc Bona reports. Then they are heading to the southwest.
‘Shop of Horrors’: It takes a wicked sense of humor to appreciate “Little Shop of Horrors,” reports Joey Morona. It’s now at Playhouse Square through Oct. 9 in the opening show of Great Lakes Theater’s 2022-23 season.
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