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 increase comes after other administrators in the district got increases on top of their annual raises. Morgan did forgo a raise last year citing the district's financial challenges. -
Legislators say the budget still provides the most money the state has ever provided to education, but not all schools will receive increased funding. -
Kent State University announced it will be closing its LGBTQ Center, Multicultural Center and Women's Center in response to a new state law. Students expressed concern about the loss of support services they have come to rely on. -
Protesters turned out to Pfeiffer Elementary Tuesday after Akron Public Schools said it might not be able to rebuild Pfeiffer Elementary and the Miller South School for the Performing Arts in the neighborhood as it previously thought it would be able to do. -
The move to close the centers to comply with Senate Bill 1 comes after other major universities in Ohio have closed their diversity, equity and inclusion offices and ended their multicultural, women's and LGBTQ+ centers. -
The college scholarship program has placed a social worker in every Cleveland school, but says budget issues may challenge that model. -
Outley will guide the district through potentially tumultuous times, after two short-lived previous superintendents and an uncertain financial future. -
The lawsuit accuses the former leaders of the college in South Euclid of misappropriating money from the its endowment to pay for operations. The money is normally meant for restricted purposes outlined by donors. -
Cleveland Metropolitan School District officials say the $2.5 million increase will bump up salaries but also increase the pay scale for administrators more broadly, even as the district says it needs to cut back over the next three years. -
The Cleveland Board of Education approved an agreement with the state calling for sharing costs to demolish eight schools and build one new high school.
