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Our Board
Liaison
Akron Board of Education member, Lisa Mansfield,
has been designated as official liaison between the Board and the East
Cluster schools.
She can be reached by phone at 330-620-1485 or by
e-mail.
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Dressed
to Learn
Here
is the current Akron Public School student dress code.
Here
are the guidelines for school uniforms required for all students in grades
kindergarten through 8.
In addition to the white, blue, and yellow uniform tops approved for the entire district,
most schools have selected two additional colors for tops. Those
colors are listed
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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A Message from the Superintendent
News affecting East, Goodyear
East Community Learning Center will be ready for the start of school this fall.
We will be moving the materials and supplies from Central-Hower this summer over to the
East building.
The middle school portion of the East campus will be ready sometime after Christmas break
and before August, 2011.
In an effort to prepare for that move, we are going to retain the rising 5th grade
students in their East Cluster elementary schools in the fall. This means that all
elementary schools in the East Cluster will be K-6.
The 7th and 8th grade students will return to the old Goodyear Middle School in the fall
and await the completion of the middle school portion at East. Once it is completed,
they will move over to the East C.L.C. campus which will then house grades 7 through 12.
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Sixth Grade Returns
to Cluster Elementary Schools
For the first time since the early 1970s, sixth grade classes are returning to four
elementary schools in the Akron Public School System. It just so happens that
all four of those schools are in the East Cluster.
In the early 1970s, the Akron Schools switched from a grade structure of K-6 for
the elementary schools, 7-9 for the junior highs, and 10-12 for the high schools to a
K-5 (elementary), 6-8 (middle school), 9-12 (high school) structure.
As part of the Imagine Akron reorganization plan of the System's buildings, 7th and 8th
grades at Goodyear Middle School will be moved into a new building on the East High
campus beginning with the 2011-2012 school year. They will reamin in their current
building until the new one is ready.
Sixth graders who would have attended Goodyear this coming school year will remain in
their elementary schools.
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Ohio Budget Bill
Impacts Education
Grades K-3, high schoolers,
directly affected
The biennial State of Ohio
budget bill
passed by the legislature in July, 2009,
will have some major impacts on the educational process in the state's school systems.
The bill contains a requirement for all Ohio school districts to offer all-day kindergarten
beginning with the 2010-2011 school year. Another mandate for the 2010-2011 school year
is a required reduction in class size for kindergarten through third grade.
A provision of the bill affecting high schoolers directs the Ohio Department of Education to find a
new exam
to replace the five-part Ohio Graduation Test which measures 10th-grade-level knowledge.
Currently being evaluated are the ACT college entrance exam and a series of end-of-course exams.
The goal is to measure whether high school grads are prepared for college or the work force
rather than merely achieving a 10th-grade-level education.
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Cluster Rebuilding
Nears Completion
East opens September 1
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East / Goodyear
Renovation and expansion of the East Community Learning Center building is nearly complete.
East students, housed in the Central-Hower building for the past three years, will return to
classes at 80 Brittain Rd. on September 1.
Goodyear 7th and 8th graders will remain in their building until the new middle school wing,
next to the East building, is completed and ready for occupancy sometime after winter break (January)
but before August of 2011 as originally projected.
Beginning this September, sixth graders, who would have normally attended Goodyear, will
remain in their elementary school buildings (Barber, Mason, Robinson, and Seiberling).
Seiberling
Because of expected overcrowding with the addition of sixth grade classes, the planning phase
for a new Seiberling Community Learning Center has been moved up on the schedule.
A series of building design meetings, open to the community, are currently under way.
Watch here for the new date and time of the rescheduled June 17 meeting.
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For complete details about the changes
to the East Cluster buildings,
click
here.
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A Better
Example
There is a lot of talk in popular culture today about role models. There are
also some very questionable choices offered as examples. Here is a better example.
Firestone High and Oberlin College grad, Josh Rzepka, is an up-and-coming
jazz and classical trumpeter. He has performed at such hallowed sites as Cleveland's
Severance Hall and Boston's Symphony Hall.
To learn more about Josh Rzepka, click
here.
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Goodyear
Heights
Resources
For a list of resources helpful to Goodyear Heights residents, click
here.
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For all sorts of
free educational aids, visit the Savings4Teachers
web site.
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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.
