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Students at Cleveland Metropolitan School District high schools are asking the district to recognize multiple valedictorians and salutatorians after consolidation reduced 27 high schools to 14 this year, Signal Cleveland reported. Some…
CMSD has two board vacancies after Nigamanth Sridhar resigned in mid-October and Diana Welch Howell left in August. Mayor Justin Bibb is accepting applications for the nine-member board through Nov. 13. Appointees serve four-year terms…
Mayor Justin Bibb, who appoints Cleveland's school board, has said little publicly about charter schools as CMSD consolidates buildings amid declining enrollment. He opposes for-profit charters but is open to nonprofits working with the…
CMSD will not seek a one-year, $603,000 Flock Safety extension and is suspending the license-plate-reader cameras on district property, spokesperson Jon Benedict said Monday. He cited privacy, cost-benefit versus alternatives and…
Cleveland's residential trick-or-treating is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, with the city issuing guidance on costumes, supervision, candy inspection and driver caution. The annual Big City Boo celebration is set for 5 to…
An internal CMSD audit dated Sept. 30 found no problems with Flock camera searches made after outside agencies lost access on July 7, but did not closely review the more than 130,000 queries those agencies ran beforehand, Signal…
Signal Cleveland's weekly news quiz, published Oct. 23, 2026, opens with a 1968 Cleveland transit milestone and then covers police accountability measures, a proposal to keep neighborhood grocery stores open and debate over City Council…
Grace and Valor, both under a year old, joined the Cleveland Mounted Police Unit after arriving in September. The miniature horses were bought with Cleveland Mounted Police Charitable Trust funds and are training for community…
Jayun Kim, a visiting fellow in environmental health sciences at Ohio State, says South Korea pairs volume-based waste fees with surveillance and steep penalties — fines run $40 to $8,000, and verified reports earn 10% to 50% of a fine…
Cleveland residents filed more than 5,000 illegal dumping reports in the past year, while task force citations fell nearly 50% over six years, according to data Council Member Nikki Hudson shared with Signal Cleveland. A proposed…
Cleveland’s pay transparency ordinance, which requires salary ranges in job postings and bans salary-history questions for employers with 15+ workers, is set to mark its first anniversary Oct. 27. Supporters cite compliance outreach,…
The Cleveland Public Library Board of Trustees approved a resolution to sublease land and build a new Memorial-Nottingham Branch near Euclid Beach Pier. After construction, the current branch at 17109 Lakeshore Blvd. would be demolished…