CMSD board adopts meeting schedule and goals process, amends forecast; later approves personnel terminations and suspensions

The Board of Education of the Cleveland Municipal School District adopted several governance and financial resolutions at its 2025 organization meeting and work session and, following an executive session, authorized multiple personnel actions.

The board voted, by roll call, to adopt Resolution 5.01 — a schedule of regular meetings and rules regarding notice for calendar year 2025 — and Resolution 5.02, approving a process and timeline for development and adoption of board goals and guardrails. Both resolutions passed by unanimous roll call (eight yes votes). The board also approved Resolution 6.01 amending the district’s general-fund five-year forecast to reflect a technical reclassification requested by the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce related to new levy revenue tied to the passage of the district’s Issue 49 levy and bond issue; that amendment was presented as a technical change with no immediate fiscal impact and passed by roll call (eight yes votes).

Why it matters: The meeting-schedule resolution sets the cadence and public-notice rules for board work sessions and business meetings for 2025. The goals-and-guardrails timeline directs an accelerated community-engagement process: the Golden Guardrails committee recommended review of prior community input and a working retreat to develop draft goals for community feedback, with a target to adopt final goals and guardrails at the board business meeting on March 18, 2025.

Roll-call votes: Board…