Elyria Schools Win Over $1 Million Literacy Grant
Elyria schools receive 1,054,144 from Ohio Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grant to boost fourth through ninth grade literacy. Middle schools get 839,605 and high and elementary allocations follow. The three year program funds Read 180, Great Books Foundation Shared Inquiry, and teacher training with three new literacy coaches.
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Elyria
Ohio Department of Education
Ohio
Ann Schloss
Great Books Foundation
Schloss
Amy Keir
Population growth nudges Lorain County housing and services
Lorain County population rose from 306,590 in 2016 to 307,924 in 2017, a 2.2 percent gain since 2010. Avon Lake and North Ridgeville saw increases while officials cite housing construction, school enrollments, and expanded police and fire services as drivers, with new staff and snowplow routes added to meet demand.
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Lorain County
U.S. Census Bureau
Avon Lake
Greg Zilka
Zilka
Avon _ Lake
North Ridgeville
David Gillock
Gillock
Man pleads guilty in case of five kids in U Haul
Cleveland man Brian Dekam 56 pleaded guilty to endangering children and received one year basic community control after five children aged 15, 6, 4, 3 and 2 were found in the back of a 10 foot U Haul in Elyria. Jamie Adkins 26 was also charged.
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Elyria
Cleveland
Brian Dekam
Lorain Avenue
Raymond Ewers
Dekam
Speedway
Lorain Boulevard
Jamie Adkins
Adkins
Jamie
South Amherst
Kimberly Hull
Amherst Schools Celebrate Powers Elementary Groundbreaking
Amherst marked the start of Powers Elementary with a groundbreaking ceremony amid cheering. The new preschool through third grade campus south of Amherst Junior High aims to open in August 2019 after a 2016 bond funding upgrades at Steele High and Nord Middle.
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Amherst
New Powers
Amherst Junior High
Teresa Gilles
Gilles
Marion L. Steele High School
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Cavaliers
George Hill
Celtics
Jayson Tatum
Marcus Morris
Katie Nix
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Amherst Schools
Lisa Roberson
Addi
Tion
Steele and
Walter G. Nord
Lee Powers
Steve Manheim
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