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Cluster
Calendar
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Click on the calendar below to see a list of events involving the
schools of the East Cluster.
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East High Sports
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Boys Basketball
Stow Div. II
District Tournament
East 37
C.V.C.A. 70
Season concluded
Girls Basketball
Uniontown Div. II
District Tournament
East 31
Fairless 85
Season concluded
Girls Bowling
Season concluded
Boys Bowling
Season concluded
Congrats to Tyler Silcox who bowled a perfect 300
game in the City Series tourney on Feb. 4.
Listen to Tyler's WAKR interview
here.
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East Students Mean Business
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East High students fared well at the recent district competitions sponsored by
the
Ohio
chapter of the Business Professionals of America.
Nine students qualified to advance to state competition March 12 & 13 in Columbus.
Here
is the complete list of East High placements.
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Seiberling Learns to Eat Better
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Seiberling third graders now know how to create balanced meals, how to read food labels,
and how to burn off fat after a recent visit from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
The students took part in the "You Are What You Eat" presentation, part of the Museum's
Health on
Wheels
program.
Here
are some details of the Museum's visit.
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Video Corner
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Prior to Christmas, the East High National Honor Society sponsored an
angel tree. The students raised the funds to purchase winter hats, gloves,
and socks for 75 children area children with incarcerated parents.
Watch the WAKR interview
here.
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Read What We Wrote
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In this space, we will be featuring some of the entries from the
recent student writing contest sponsored by the Goodyear Branch of the
Akron-Summit County Public Library.
For this year's contest, students were asked to write about an animal.
Here
is Kayera L.'s winning entry in the grade 7-8 category.
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Year-Round Schools for Akron?
Superintendent floats the idea
Year-round classes could be coming to an Akron Public School (A.P.S.) near you.
This possibility was offered by School Superintendent, David James, at his State of
the Schools message on February 24.
James, a proponent of year-round schooling, said "I think this is going to happen sooner rather than later."
The Superintendent would like to adjust the A.P.S. academic calendar to help
combat what he calls the "summer slide." This, as James pointed out in a
WKSU interview, is when students "...forget content and then at the beginning of
the year, teachers are spending the first couple of weeks going over stuff that kids
should have learned already."
As with any major systemic change, there are many details to be worked out:
for example, the financing of a longer school year and necessary adjustments to
teacher contracts.
The entire text of the Superintendent's speech can be seen
here.
James' remarks to WKSU's M.L. Schultze are available
here.
For a summary of the entire State of the Schools address, read the Akron Beacon Journal article
here.
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Giving Peace a Chance
Tips to dealing with the police
Sometimes people are in doubt about what to do when stopped by the police.
Sometimes this doubt can lead to unnecessary confrontations. The group Akron
PeaceMakers
and the City of Akron are working to prevent these unfortunate encounters.
Members of PeaceMakers, all Akron Public School (A.P.S.) students, gave a presentation
at the Feb. 11 meeting of Akron City Council to offer their plan to educate the public
— especially their fellow students.
The group is in the process of distributing informational
cards,
entitled "You and the Law," to all A.P.S. middle and high school students.
The cards offer helpful advice such as: "Your basic rights and responsibilities
may not always be clearly defined by law enforcement officials. If stopped or
detained, politely ask the officer 'why' in a manner that is not confrontational."
For more detail on the efforts of the PeaceMakers,
here
is an article from Leader Publications.
In addition,
here
is a report broadcast on National Public Radio.
(Photo courtesy of Akron Beacon Journal )
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Looking for a prom dress?
To the ladies of the class of 2015: Are you looking for a prom dress?
Dressing for the prom can become an expensive propositon. If you would
like to save a little money on that dress that you may wear only once, you are in luck.
The
Akron Chapter
of Altrusa International is sponsoring its annual "Princess Night" prom dress giveaway
on Saturday, March 21, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Family of Faith United
Methodist Church located at 800 E. Market St.(between Carroll and Arlington Sts.).
This year's event is for girls aged 16 or older.
Registration at the door entitles each girl to one formal or semi-formal gown, her choice of
complimentary accessories (purse, shoes, jewelry), and complimentary makeup samples.
Altrusa, a volunteer service organization, has been sponsoring this event since 2001, and
has served over 1,000 prom-goers during that time.
For further details, contact Alice Luse at 330-869-5161 or Linda Rittenour at 330-733-1353.
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Linger Takes New Job
Interim head of interscholastic sports
Someone familiar to the East High family, Ron Linger, has been appointed
by the Akron Board of Education to be the interim Program Manager of Interscholastic Athletics
for the school district.
He takes over for the recently retired Joe Howard.
Linger, a 1976 East High grad, has 32 1/2 years of service with the Akron Public Schools.
He previously served as East's Athletic Director. He aslo taught and coached at Central-Hower
and taught at Firestone.
Linger's resume also includes being selected as the center on the
Beacon Journal All-City football
team
for the 1975 season.
To listen to the WAKR interview with Linger, click
here.
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Private School
Vouchers Available
Many East Cluster students will qualify
A little-known option available to public school students in Ohio is the
EdChoice
voucher program. This allows students in under-performing schools to be
eligible for a voucher to attend a private school.
For students to qualify, their school must have received an overall grade of D or F
on their state report card for at least two of the past three school years.
(State report cards can be viewed at the bottom of the left column of this web site.)
Students in schools ranked in the lowest 10% of a district's buildings may also qualify.
Because their buildings had overall grades low enough to qualify,
students in all the East Cluster schools (Barber, David Hill, Mason, Robinson,
East Middle, and East High) except Seiberling are eligible to apply for a
private school voucher for the 2015-16 school year.
Families can begin applying for vouchers for the upcoming school beginning on
February 1. Up to 60,000 scholarships will be available.
Students in kindergarten through eighth grade can receive up to $4,250 in funding,
while high school students can receive up to $5,000.
Parents/guardians should first apply for admission to the private school of their choice.
If their student is accepted, the private school will submit the voucher application to the Ohio
Department of Education.
For a complete list of all Ohio schools eligible for EdChoice vouchers, click
here.
Further details of the EdChoice program are available in this Columbus Dispatch
article.
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Students Feel Effects
of the News
Seiberling students react
to events of 2014
With the glut of 24-hour news services and social media outlets,
it's hard to avoid the news.
And although they may not always understand the full meaning, youngsters
are aware of what is going on in the world around them.
Before winter break, six Seiberling students gathered to
discuss important news stories of 2014 with StateImpact Ohio.
Here
is the story in print and an audio copy of the feature that ran on National
Public Radio.
(Photo courtesy of StateImpact Ohio)
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East
Cluster
Resources
For a list of resources helpful to residents of the East Cluster neighborhoods , click
here.
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Contact Us
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions regarding this web site or its contents,
send us an e-mail.
East Cluster E-mail
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The Akron Public Schools are divided into seven neighborhood groups or clusters
— each headed by the high school located within that cluster. The rest of
the cluster is made up of the middle school that feeds into that high school and the
various elementary schools that feed into that middle school. The clusters were
formed to increase community identity within a large school system.
