Conor Morris
Reporter/ProducerExpertise: Education reporting, public records, general assignment, investigative reporting
Education: Wooster High School
Ohio University - Bachelor of Science, journalism
Favorite spot in Northeast Ohio: Upper Edgewater Park
Experience:
Conor Morris covers education in Northeast Ohio. A 2014 Ohio University alum, he previously worked at The Athens NEWS in Southeast Ohio, covering criminal justice, education and more. He moved to Cleveland in 2020 to work with the Northeast Ohio Solutions Journalism Collaborative as a reporter and Report for America corps member, where he covered poverty and the pandemic's impact on Northeast Ohio. Conor volunteers his time to run the Unsilenced Voices of CMSD, a blog for Cleveland Metropolitan School District students. He was born in Marietta, Ohio.
Highlights:
- Won numerous statewide press awards for his investigative and feature reporting on higher education, criminal justice and poverty with The Athens NEWS in Southeast Ohio.
- 2023 Ohio Associated Press Media Editors Award, First Place Best Digital Project & Ohio Society of Professional Journalists Award, Best Medical/Science/Health Care Reporting - “Redlining is affecting Northeast Ohio's children's ability to breathe. Here's what we can do”
- Past stories featured on the Solutions Journalism Network's Solutions Story Tracker, which highlights stories that dig into both a problem and its solution.
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The new policy means Cleveland Metropolitan School District grads will have minimal steps to complete before being able to start taking classes at Tri-C. -
Superintendent Michael Robinson has been sending emails using Gmail's confidential mode, which means they disappear from recipients' inboxes after a certain amount of time. -
The district said it has been working to come up with a solution after record snowfall led to the collapse of the roof of the high school over the weekend. -
The new members of Cleveland's Board of Education will face challenging decisions, with the district's budget forecast showing it quickly running out of money. -
The decision comes almost two years after a local nonprofit had been granted a variance to build the center, which would have provided meals and other help for struggling young people. -
The move comes as the district is quickly running out of time to approve a forecast to send to the state, which shows the broad strokes of how it will be spending its money over the next five years. -
The university administration has told the faculty union of its proposed, providing a first look at what's ahead for the University of Akron as it navigates budget challenges due to declining enrollment. The proposal is not final. -
Companion bills in the Ohio House and Senate would require public schools to adopt policies allowing students to be released for religious education. -
The district says despite the levy, expenses continue to grow; meanwhile, changes to the state funding formula aren't helping the district as much as it would like. -
The potential need for layoffs come just four years after the university already cut almost 200 staff during the early days of the pandemic.
