Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 10:39 PM
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland School District is sticking mostly with known commodities as it moves to sponsor more charter schools.
The school board is to vote March 8 on sponsoring three additional charters. The district also is poised to sign preliminary agreements with two other charter schools.
All five are affiliated with Breakthrough Schools, a Cleveland nonprofit management group that already has ties to the district. The district rejected six applications.
Cleveland now sponsors three Breakthrough schools: Entrepreneurship Preparatory, which is a middle school, and two elementary schools: Citizens Academy and Village Preparatory. The district operates a fourth charter, Promise Academy, a dropout recovery and prevention program for ages 16 to 21.
More:
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/02/cleveland_school_board_conside.html