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For more information contact:
Cleveland City Council
Katherine Bulava, Communications Director
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| Council to urge State Senate to reinstate funding for the Closing the Achievement Gap Initiative |
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Cleveland City Council will pass a resolution at this evening’s Council Meeting calling on the Ohio State Senate to reinstate funding for the Closing eh Achievement Gap program that was recently eliminated from the State budget by the Ohio Senate Finance Committee.
The Closing the Achievement Gap Initiative focuses on the promotion of at risk ninth grade males to the 10th grade as research has shown that boys who successfully matriculate to the 10th grade are likely to graduate from high school. The Initiative endeavors to reach young men early in their high school careers in order to “socially construct hope” by providing mentors, personal attention for academic learning, social service intervention to improve attitudes and behavior, family support, modified instruction by teachers to reflect innovative learning and exposure to experiences that will expand the horizons and expectations of these students.
Through its holistic approach to guiding young men through the 9th grade, the Closing the Achievement Gap Initiative has successfully increased matriculation rates to the 10th grade and increased passage rates for Ohio Graduation Tests.
“The Closing the Achievement Gap Initiative has made a real difference to the lives of the young men that have participated and helped cement a positive future for these youth,” said Ward 1 Councilman Terrell H. Pruitt, Chair of the Employment, Affirmative Action & Training Committee. “If we want to stem unemployment and underemployment, we need to continue to support programs such as these because they fully invest in our youth, who are our renewable resources.”
The Closing the Achievement Gap Initiative is in place at Collinwoood, East, East Tech, Glenville, James Rhodes, John Adams, John F. Kennedy, John Marshall, Lincoln West, Martin Luther King and South High Schools and the Ginn Academy in Cleveland. |
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Cleveland City Council
601 Lakeside Avenue
Room 220
Cleveland, OH 44114
(216) 664-2840
(216) 664-3837 fax
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