The Cleveland Heights Teachers Union has notified the school district that they may strike in early December if they can not come to an agreement on a new contract with the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District.
The district will decide on a date to return to in-person instruction after reviewing the latest information from healthcare experts and relevant COVID-19 data.
According to the Brecksville-Broadview Heights City School District COVID-19 dashboard, 11 high school students and two high school staff members reported testing positive for coronavirus this week.
All affected students are slated to return to campus and their extracurricular activities on Oct. 19 if they do not show symptoms and they are not taking fever-reducing medications.
Gordon’s remarks come as approximately 38,000 Cleveland school students are fully-immersed in remote learning for the first nine weeks of the school year
For the first time since the start of the health crisis, the Ohio Department of Health has designated a data dashboard for COVID-19 cases in children and schools.
Officials from Walsh Jesuit High School in Cuyahoga Falls have warned students that they could be dismissed if they are not honest about attending a large house party.
Coronavirus has created new problems for school districts -- longer teacher absences, substitute teachers worried about going to class -- with Ohio lessening requirements for becoming a substitute teacher during a teacher shortage
After two weeks of e-learning, the doors at Normandy Elementary in Bay Village are back open, and parents are sending their students back into the classroom.
Certainly, there were day one problems for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District as they tried to navigate beginning a school year educating about 37,000 students online, and district CEO Eric Gordon is asking parents to have patience as they work out the issues.
The superintendent said in-building mode will be guided by a “Slow Launch Start,” which is a process that brings back up to half of the students in-building at one time to allow teachers to work with smaller groups and to supervise safety protocols.