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🌧️ Rain with a high of 69 |
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Good morning Cleveland,
Hundreds of Cleveland educators and district staff learned Friday that their jobs were cut. News of the layoff notices rippled through the district, which will also have 29 fewer schools next year as it reshapes the public school landscape in Cleveland. Staff cuts include teachers, nurses, guidance counselors, colleague and career navigators and aides who specialize in preventing student suspensions. District leaders have not said how many administrative and central office employees will lose their jobs.
CMSD CEO Warren Morgan has said cuts are needed to right size the district due to declining enrollment and budget woes worsened by diminished state funding. Teachers union officials and an increasingly vocal group of parents have argued that there is no current budget shortfall, and that cuts should first come from administrative salaries and six-figure consulting contracts, not front line staff who interact with students and families on a daily basis.
The school board is set to vote on the layoffs Tuesday. The meeting will not include an opportunity for public comment.
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Rachel Dissell
Managing Editor
Signal Cleveland
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🏫 CMSD layoffs: The district started laying off staff, notifying 150 teachers and 120 other unionized staff members that their jobs were cut. CMSD also is reducing administrative staff at the central office but hasn't said how many positions that includes. Read more about the layoffs here.
🚧 Vacant lots in Slavic Village: City Council Member Deborah Gray is working with developers on an apartment complex and other housing ideas for 1,000 vacant lots in Slavic Village. Documenters have more on that and updates coming to Luke Easter Park in these notes from a recent community meeting.
🔌 Power up: Cleveland is preparing a strategic plan for the 120-year-old, city-owned electric utility once known as Muny Light. Cleveland Public Power, as it is now branded, has been in need of an update. Now it appears that a refresh is in store for CPP, although there aren't many details available yet. Nick Castele has the story here.
🚏 Transportation slowdown: The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority will hold hearings this coming week on its plan to cut service to save $2.5 million. The proposed service cuts include the Waterfront Line, the Rapid Transit train that runs from Tower City to the Cleveland Municipal Lot along the lakefront. It has seen so few riders it's known as the ghost train. Learn more about it and the proposed cuts in Weekly Chatter.
🎨 Urban art, a glow-in-the-dark aesthetic and underground hip-hop fuel the Vibe Boost Market, taking over the Negative Space studios this weekend in Asiatown. Gennifer Harding-Gosnell has the details. |
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Smoke billowed as workers loaded heaps of asphalt at the City of Cleveland's Seville Road service center Friday morning. With the weather warming up, the city is ramping up its efforts to fill potholes on residential streets, said John Laird, who directs the Public Works Department. Repeated thaws and re-freezes this spring hit the roads hard, he said.
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Cleveland Documenters trains and pays residents to document local government meetings with notes. We then make those meeting summaries available as a new public record. Want to get involved in how Cleveland works? Become a Documenter. |
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📒 Documenters will be at these meetings this week:
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Tuesday, April 14, at 4 p.m. | City of Cleveland Urban Forestry Commission: Spring 2026 Public Meeting. Attend at Cleveland City Hall, 601 Lakeside Ave. E., Room 514, or watch on YouTube.
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Tuesday, April 14, at 6 p.m. | Cleveland Community Relations Board: Second District Community Relations Safety Meeting. Attend at OneHope NEO, 3202 Fulton Road.
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Tuesday, April 14, at 6:30 p.m. | Cleveland Metropolitan School District: Board Work Session Meeting. Attend at Arnold Pinkney East Professional Center, 1349 E. 79th St., Room 212, or watch on YouTube.
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Wednesday, April 15, at 6 p.m. | Cleveland Community Relations Board: Fifth District Community Relations Safety Meeting. Attend at EJ Kovacic Recreation Center, 6250 Saint Clair Ave.
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Thursday, April 16, at noon | Cleveland Public Library: Board of Trustees. Attend at the Louis Stokes Wing, 525 Superior Ave., 10th floor, or watch on YouTube.
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Thursday, April 16, at 5:30 p.m. | Cleveland City Council: Ward 8 Community Meeting. Attend at Fatima Family Center, 6600 Lexington Ave.
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Thursday, April 16, at 5:30 p.m. | Cleveland City Council: Ward 9 Community Meeting. Attend at True Vine Baptist Church, 711 E. 105th St.
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⚖️ Top court speaks: The Ohio Supreme Court revived a sentence for a woman who brokered $15 of heroin in a fatal overdose. The justices unanimously reinstated a four-year prison sentence for a "go between" convicted of connecting a man with the heroin involved in his death. Signal Statehouse Reporter Jake Zuckerman has the details.
🏥 Nursing homes: Long-term care facilities in Ohio are increasingly discharging their residents to homeless shelters, according to federal inspection reports, resident advocates, and the industry itself. Jake Zuckerman provides an in depth report on the practice.
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