Mentees of The Refugee Response teaching a dance to their mentor at Urban Community School.
The pandemic disrupted schooling for kids, teachers and parents alike. For resettled refugee families, there can be added complications.
“With my siblings, my little siblings, their English is not that good yet. With online, they struggle. It’s just so much for them,” said Reem Atia, a 21-year-old Syrian woman who resettled in Cleveland with her family as refugees in late 2016.
She’s a college student and working as a pharmacy technician.
“I have to work, I have to attend school and I also have to take care of the family. It’s just a lot for me,” Atia said.
Ohio GOP lawmakers back off ballot proposal to extend redistricting deadlines: Capitol Letter
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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine stopped at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, as he traveled around Ohio promoting tourism. (David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com)David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com
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Not happening: Ohio Republican legislative leaders have abandoned a plan to ask voters to approve a constitutional amendment in August extending deadlines for Ohio’s new redistricting process. As Andrew Tobias reports, Senate President Matt Huffman, who floated the plan in light of delayed census data, had said he wouldn’t go forward without bipartisan support. Democratic leaders expressed concerns about a rushed process.
By Tom Moore
May 6, 2021
(Cleveland) - A new survey by Baldwin Wallace University says most of the candidates for mayor of Cleveland have a lot of work to do when it comes to getting votes, and financial support.
BW s poll asked likely Cleveland voters which candidates they are familiar with. There are about a dozen declared candidates, and a few who have indicated they may run. The candidate with the most name recognition is former Mayor Dennis Kucinich, who is raising money for a possible run for the position he held in 1978 and 1979. Also high on the list of familiarity, either very or somewhat, are former Councilman Zack Reed, councilman Basheer Jones, and Council Preident Kevin Kelley. Others ranked anywhere from 66 to 91 percent in not familiar at all.
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College Now brought counselors and a bus serving as a mobile application center to various Cleveland-area locations to help get local students back on track with college applications.
The Say Yes to Education college scholarship and student support program was supposed to be a game-changer for the Cleveland school district, and for a city in need of better-educated residents.
It hasn’t worked out like organizers hoped.
After a promising start in 2019, COVID-19 cut off Say Yes at the knees in the spring of 2020, thwarting efforts to place more Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) high school graduates in college. Instead of growing college enrollment, Say Yes organizers couldn’t stop the pandemic from driving enrollment for this fall to just 36 percent of new graduates, the lowest in years and below when Say Yes started in Cleveland.