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The Cleveland Metropolitan School District will hold a lottery to choose panelists to interview finalists for the CEO position. Finalist interviews are expected to happen next month.

The firm conducting the search for the next CMSD CEO shared input from surveys and interviews with students, parents and teachers with the district's board of education Tuesday night.

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.

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.

CMSD CEO Eric Gordon says the school district is working to make several improvements to school safety after an 18-year-old student was shot and killed at the bus stop outside of John Adams College and Career Academy high school earlier this week.

In seeking its next CEO, the CMSD board is asking for public input to help find the right candidate to lead the district.

The Cleveland Transformation Alliance, an organization that assesses school quality and monitors relations between charter schools and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, could be out of money by the end of next year.

CMSD students came to East Professional Center Tuesday for a forum on gun violence, where they learned more about the issue and worked together to come up with potential solutions to the problem.

Cleveland Metropolitan School District today announced a $20 million donation from billionaire philanthropist Mackenzie Scott, likely the largest donation to the district ever.