Primary and Secondary Education


The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s current priority in primary and secondary education is our work to support Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's "Cleveland Plan," which is pushing for dramatic changes in how the Cleveland Metropolitan School District operates. The plan's key strategies are:

  • Grow the number of high-performing district and charter schools in Cleveland and close and replace failing schools.
  • Focus the district’s central office on key support and governance roles and transfer authority and resources to the schools.
  • Invest and phase in high-leverage system reforms across all schools from preschool to college and career.
  • Create the Cleveland Transformation Alliance, a public-private partnership, to ensure accountability for all public schools in the city.

Click here  to read the plan's Executive Summary.

Click here  to learn more about Issue 107 and the Cleveland school levy campaign

MC2STEM High School

MC2STEM High School

The GCP coordinated fund raising that brought in almost $4 million to support construction of the CMSD’s new STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) High School facility on General Electric’s Nela Park campus in East Cleveland. The GCP also coordinated fund-raising to renovate classrooms for freshmen students at the Great Lakes Science Center. This includes leadership grants from The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation and The Sherwick Fund, along with major gifts from Forest City Enterprises, Eaton Corp., KeyCorp and Parker Hannifin Corp.

 

More »

Entrepreneurship Preparatory School

Entrepreneurship Preparatory School

The GCP and its small business partner, COSE, support efforts to prepare students for successful careers in the business world at the Entrepreneurship Preparatory School (E Prep), a school of choice sponsored by the CMSD. It’s an urban middle school where 100 percent of the graduates will attend a college prep high school, and, upon graduation, will be accepted to a four-year college.

 

More »

Max Hayes High School

WIRE-Net

The GCP is working with the CMSD, WIRE-Net, foundations, industry and others to shape plans for the new Max Hayes High School that will be built at West 65th Street and Clark Avenue within the next few years. The goal is to build a facility that can provide world-class career and technical education to Cleveland’s young people.

 

City Year Cleveland’s Business/School Partnership Program

City Year Cleveland

City Year Cleveland’s Business/School Partnership Program establishes valuable partnerships between area businesses and the CMSD that result in stronger schools and academically successful students who are prepared for success before, during and after high school. Business resources – human, financial and in-kind – are targeted toward activities that improve student performance throughout K-12 education, increase literacy and graduation rates, and advance the skill sets necessary for lifelong success and citizenship. Click here to find out about the latest news and events.

More »