Public Meetings Report for the week of July 8, 2024
🏫🎒In this week’s Public Meetings Report, we focus on the Cleveland Metropolitan School District Board of Education business meeting on Tuesday, June 25. At the meeting Documenters listened in as friends and family of the late Cleveland educator and civil rights activist, Arnold Pinkney discussed his legacy. Pinkney passed away in 2014. Earlier this summer CMSD renamed their East Professional Center building in Pinkney’s memory.
Also, Documenters caught CMSD CEO Warren Morgan’s presentation on disproportionate absenteeism and suspensions among Black students and students with disabilities across the district. Get the details in about five minutes in this week’s episode. 🎧📻👇🏿
The Documenters whose work contributed to this episode are:
- Tucker Handley
- Emma Sedlak
Listen to this week’s Public Meetings Report here:
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Show Notes:
Signal Cleveland meeting briefs:
- Fewer CMSD students missing school, but gaps persist for Black students and students with disabilities Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Board of Education business meeting, June 25, 2024
Documenters coverage:
- Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Board of Education business meeting Notes and Live-Tweets, June 25, 2024
Signal Cleveland reporting:
- Tell us about your FAFSA experience By Amy Morona
- Cleveland parents say ‘quality of classroom instruction’ and safety are top concerns By Michael Indrolio
- How much tuition will cost new students at Ohio’s public four-year colleges this fall By Amy Morona
Recordings:
- Cuyahoga County Council, June 18, 2024
- Cleveland Metroparks Board of Trustees, June 20, 2024
Other resources:
- Cleveland Metropolitan School District website
- K-12 students learned a lot last year, but they’re still missing too much school story on NPR
- College Now Greater Cleveland
The Public Meetings Report is a weekly audio rundown of what happened in local government meetings here in Greater Cleveland – in five minutes or less! The show is based on the work of Cleveland Documenters – residents like you who are trained and paid to document these meetings for the public. Produced by Signal Cleveland and Cleveland Documenters, in partnership with WOVU 95.9FM “Our Voices United,” a Burten, Bell, Carr community radio station.
