Conor Morris
Reporter/ProducerConor Morris covers education in Northeast Ohio.
A 2014 Ohio University alum, he previously won numerous statewide press awards for his reporting on higher education, police and poverty with The Athens NEWS in Southeast Ohio.
He moved to Cleveland in 2020 to work with the Northeast Ohio Solutions Journalism Collaborative as a reporter and Report for America corps member.
Morris volunteers his time to run the Unsilenced Voices of CMSD, a blog for Cleveland Metropolitan School District students.
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Two Cleveland Metropolitan School District students told the CMSD Board of Education this week they want change after they say they were verbally and almost physically assaulted while riding a Greater Cleveland RTA train. -
Cleveland teachers showed up in force during a school board meeting Tuesday, raising concerns about gun violence, school safety and what they called a lack of teacher input so far in the search for Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s next CEO.
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Former Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Renacci Thursday announced a new political action committee to try to flip Ohio school boards with conservative-leaning candidates. Renacci says the Save Our Schools Ohio PAC will help candidates raise funds and will use data to identify "dozens" of key local school board races
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Two requests for use of the city’s American Rescue Plan Act dollars on education and workforce development initiatives made it out of a Cleveland City Council committee meeting Tuesday, but not until after facing some tough questions from council members.
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This will be the district’s fourth consecutive attempt to get a bond issue approved, with the last attempt failing in November last year. The bond would be used to construct a centralized high school as the district looks to close two high schools to trim costs.
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The Cleveland nonprofit CHN Housing Partners says more people have applied for financial assistance with utility bills in recent years.Laurie Leverette, director of utilities and emergency services, said rising utility costs are driving more people to the nonprofit for the first time to seek help. There always has been a significant need, though, because of the city’s high poverty rate.
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A conflict has been brewing over the last year over the location of a drop-in shelter for youth experiencing homelessness in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, pitting some neighbors against each other.
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A Parma City School District Board of Education member has resigned after she was arrested on a charge of forgery last week.
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Staff at Streetsboro City Schools will be able to carry firearms in school buildings after the Board of Education approved a resolution last week.
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Amanda Karpus, the vice president of the board of education, was arrested Wednesday and appeared in Parma Municipal Court, where the case was bound over to Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. She was released on her own recognizance.
