Cleveland Schools Plan Will Close 18 Schools, Repurpose Others

On Tuesday, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District's CEO Eugene Sanders unveiled a "transformation plan" that would result in the closure of 18 schools in the district.

Most of the schools to be closed are on the city's East Side, and perhaps the most prominent of those closures of East High and South High. In addition to closing schools, another 21 schools will be re-purposed. The district may replace principals and teachers, dramatically redesign the curriculum, or convert the building to house charter schools.

Currently the district has 110 schools. That means that Sanders is shaking things up at almost of third of the schools in the district.

Wit declining budgets and reduction in facilities, it is almost certain that layoffs will occur. However, Sanders declined to say how many of the district's 8.000 employees could lose their jobs.

One of the main motivations to enact this plan is to is to raise the district's academic standing. Some schools have beyond dismal graduation rates, but at others there is just a small proportion that do not graduate

The school board still needs to consider and vote on the plan.

Growth

CSA Design Lab

Garrett Morgan

High Tech high

John Jay campus

Mc2stem

Success Tech

Whitney Young

Refocus:

Jane Addams

Marshall/Shuler

MLK

Max Hayes

Margaret Ireland complex

Rhodes

Repurpose

Lincoln West

John Adams

John F. Kennedy

Collinwood

Glenville

East Tech

Washington Park

Close

East

South

Relocate

Ginn (to Glenville)