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Christopher Malinoski's avatar

Data is only useful when defining causation is the goal. CMSD is taking on a fool’s errand if they strive to correlate discipline numbers with high rated school districts like Solon, Olmsted Falls & Orange and expect similar State-mandated standardized test scores. Dr Morgan and Mayor Bibb can dance around the pitfalls of generational poverty all they want but Cleveland residents rank amongst the poorest urban residents in America. Spending property tax dollars to drive development aimed at affluent Greater Cleavelanders doesn’t help the poor.

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Dawn Arrington's avatar

While I am happy that suspensions are down overall…there’s a lot of work ahead of us. That’s an unfortunate choice to make on the part of Dr. Morgan and team. This is what happens when only the “smart” people are in the room. Might be even more unfortunate that the actual board didn’t address the presentation. Perhaps they all didn’t realize it was a derogatory term. Before this article I did not either

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