ERIC Number: ED586286
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Jun
Pages: 11
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Citywide Education Progress Report: Cleveland
Center on Reinventing Public Education
The Citywide Education Progress Reports evaluate how a city is doing across three goals: (1) The education system should be continuously improving; (2) All students should have access to a high-quality education; and (3) The education strategy should be rooted in the community. Across each goal, indicators are presented of system reforms and outcomes. These city reports focus on education strategies for the 2017-18 school year. Analyses reflect developments through June 2018, and these are updates to the original reports from the 2016-17 school year. To understand how well cities are doing, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) used state and federal data to track school improvement, graduation rates, and student access to high-quality schools. To understand city strategies and identify early progress, interviews, surveys, public documents, and news articles from 2014-2015 to the present were relied upon. This analysis uses data for district and charter schools to look at all schools within municipal boundaries, rather than just one sector or district. Cleveland Metropolitan School District is making strides on many fronts: helping families through the school choice process, improving school leadership, and expanding school autonomy. These efforts are anchored by Cleveland's Plan for Transforming Schools, a citywide, voter-funded improvement strategy that includes the district and participating charter schools. Despite improvements on some metrics, like graduation rates, overall Cleveland's achievement rates remain low, especially when compared to other large urban cities. Reforms are still evolving, but as leaders of the Cleveland Plan re-evaluate strategies at the five-year mark, they will need to use the strong foundation they have already built to refocus goals to aggressively address persistently low-performing schools and redesign or consolidate under-enrolled schools. This will require more coordination across the diverse charter sector and improved engagement with families most impacted by low-performing schools. [For the main report, "Stepping Up: How Are American Cities Delivering on the Promise of Public School Choice?," see ED578178.]
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement, Graduation Rate, Socioeconomic Influences, Family Involvement, Accountability, At Risk Students, Educational Quality, Educational Change, Systems Approach, Enrollment, Transportation, Community Involvement, Charter Schools, Administrator Role, Teacher Competencies, Educational Finance, School Choice, Educational Improvement, School Districts, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
Center on Reinventing Public Education. University of Washington Bothell Box 358200, Seattle, WA 98195. Tel: 206-685-2214; Fax: 206-221-7402; e-mail: crpe@u.washington.edu; Web site: http://www.crpe.org
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE)
Identifiers - Location: Ohio (Cleveland)
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