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Council member warns against cutting classroom minutes as school-choice effects could accelerate enrollment losses
Summary
Councilman Chris Harsh urged the mayor and Cleveland school leadership not to reduce instructional minutes, arguing that cuts could drive families away and weaken economically integrated schools; the council also adopted a resolution encouraging school bus stop arm cameras.
Councilman Chris Harsh used the miscellaneous portion of the March 24 meeting to press Cleveland and school leaders to avoid reducing instructional minutes in Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD), saying reduced minutes could prompt families to leave the city’s public schools and erode economic diversity in buildings that have drawn middle-class families.
"We should not be reducing any classroom time for students at CMSD," Councilman Harsh said in a lengthy address. He argued that extended-day or extended-year schools — which the council record lists by…
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