Charter School Hopes To Revitalize East Side Neighborhood

Monday morning (May 11), an abandoned 46,000 square-foot school building on Cleveland's East Side will begin a process of renewal that sponsors say will brighten the entire neighborhood. By fall, and after a $3.4 million face lift, the site will house a charter school for 450 students. But why put another charter school in Cleveland when so many are closing their doors? ideastream®'s Rick Jackson spoke with Debroah Mays, the chief administrative officer of the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy, which is growing and enrolling hundreds of children from across the area - even as other Charter Schools are failing. She says this school has an enviable success rate as compared to so many others.