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Cluster
Calendar
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Click on the calendar below to see a list of events relating to the
schools of the East Cluster.
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East Cluster Sports
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News
♦ Former East basketball coach, Bobby Smith, was
inducted
into the Akron Public Schools Athletics Hall of Fame.
Emcee for the event was East grad and former East Athletic Director, Ron Linger.
Boys Basketball
Varsity
Massillon 95
East 46
Sat., Feb. 15
6:45 p.m.
at Green
Division IV
Sectional/District
Tournament
Bracket
Fri., Feb. 21
7:00 p.m.
at Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin
Junior Varsity
Sat., Feb. 15
5:30 p.m.
at Green
Freshmen
Season concluded
Middle School
Season concluded
Girls Basketball
Varsity
St. Thos. Aquinas 47
East 33
Thurs., Feb. 13
6:00 p.m.
vs. Elms
at East
Division IV
Sectional/District
Tournament
Bracket
Sat., Feb. 15
1:00 p.m.
at Northwest
Junior Varsity
Season concluded
Middle School
Season concluded
Bowling
Girls
Division I
Sectional Tourney
Mon., Feb. 17
10:00 a.m.
at Spins Bowl
Boys
Division I
Sectional Tourney
Fri., Feb. 14
10:00 a.m.
at Spins Bowl
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Music & Drama
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Instrumental Music
Band / Orchestra
Wed., Feb 12
7:00 p.m.
Akron Public Schools
High school
bands-in-the-round
at East
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Thank You
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Thanks to the following organizations and individuals who made
contributions to the schools of the East Cluster:
• The David & Cheryl Venarge Fund donated the following additional amounts to be used for basic
needs for women and children:
▪ $1,000 to Barber;
▪ $1,000 to David Hill;
▪ $2,500 to Mason;
▪ $1,000 to Seiberling.
• DonorsChoose.org donated 4 microphones, valued at $220, to assist students at East
doing audio recordings.
• 100 Women Strong of Hudson donated 200 jackets, valued at $9,000, to students in need at East.
• IRG RC Hotel donated $3,600 worth of equipment for use in the weight room at East.
• Diana Tinker donated 30 electric sharpeners, valued at $900, to Barber.
• Akron HOPE donated 2 3D printers & 2 Cricut cutting machines for use by the students at Mason.
Value of the donation is $7,500.
• The University of Akron donated a MakerBot Replicator & 3D printer, valued at $1,500, to the
high school L.R.C. at East.
• Michael Hayes donated $300 to the bowling teams at East.
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Media Matters
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Seiberling's Leader of the Month
video
for December & January emphasizes "Think, Win, Win."
The Univ. of Akron's College of Engineering has issued a series of podcasts entitled Diverse Engineering hosted
by U. of A. grad, EbaNee Bond.
These podcasts celebrate the diverse voices and stories of U. of A. engineering graduates and seek to encourage more women and
other underrepresented groups of students to become engineers.
Listen to the podcasts
here.
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State Report Cards
Every year the Ohio Dept. of Education (ODoE) issues a report card for every public school and school district in the state.
Over the years, ODoE has changed the grading system from a series of vague categories, to a letter grade, and now to a five-star
rating system — the kind of rating system you might see when asked about your most recent pizza or the promptness of your latest
Amazon delivery.
Here
is the report card for the Akron Public School District for the most recently-completed school year. Below are the report cards for each of the
East Cluster schools.
2023-24
Barber
David Hill
Mason
Seiberling
East High & Middle
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East Getting Sterile
At its February 10 meeting the Akron Board of Education will
recommend
entering into a memorandum of
agreement
with the University of Akron to offer a Sterile Processing/Central Service Tech program to
interested students in the health care career pathway at East, Garfield, and North.
The cost to the District will not exceed $30,000.
The program teaches students the sterilization practices that will prepare them to become a
Certified
Sterile Processing and Distribution Technician. The curriculum includes instruction in microbiology, infection control, decontamination, manual and
mechanical cleaning, instrument inspection and assembly, sterilization procedures and methods, sterile storage, inventory control, material management, and distribution.
Sterile Processing Tech jobs are primarily available in hospitals and labs.
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I.C.E. Being Iced Out
of Akron Public Schools
Unless they have a warrant
In the wake of Donald Trump's sweeping order to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(I.C.E.)
to round up and deport those who may be in this country without proper authorization or those in their families, the Akron
Public Schools has issued its own
policy
regarding agents entering its schools.
To quote from the January 30 Akron Beacon Journal article:
"Akron Public Schools will allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement into schools, but only with a warrant, and
will not release any children into I.C.E. custody until the District's legal team is consulted, according to new guidance from the District released Thursday."
Here
is the above article in it entirety.
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Smoother Running at East
Thanks to a grant awarded in the amount of $100,000 to the Akron Public Schools from Dick's Sporting Goods
Foundation
and the Local Initiatives Support
Corporation,
the battered dirt and cinder running track at East will be excavated and replaced with a rubberized, all-weather
track. The new track will be similar to the one at Firestone C.L.C.
The grant was oficially
accepted
at the December 9 Board of Education meeting.
The first synthetic, all-weather track was developed in the mid 1950s, and the first time one was used in the
Olympics was in 1968 at Mexico City. So you see, East is a little behind the curve but happy to catch up.
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School administration recommends
Ending Requirement
for School Uniforms
The administration of the Akron Public Schools is
recommending
to the
Board of Edcuation that the requirement foe school uniforms be permanently eliminated. This
would apply to students in kindergarten through grade 8.
Even if the school unifoms are no longer required, a
dress code
(see page 18) would still be in effect.
In recent poling, 70% of parents voted to eliminate the requirement for uniforms, while 91% of students in grades 5-8
voted to eliminate the requirement.
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Akron Public Schools Passes
Five-year Budget Forecast
Includes $10,000,000 in cuts
At its December 9 meeting the Akron Board of Education
approved
a five-year budget forecast which it will submit to the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce.
The forecast includes $10,205,558.27 in cuts for next school year alone. This includes
$1,793,993 in cuts to the Dept. of Academics and a reduction of $1,103,608 to the Dept. of Student Services.
This forecast was due to the state by November 30, but Board members, at their November 25 meeting, pushed the
Administration for greater detail before it could vote to approve the measure.
Ohio school districts are required to routinely submit budget forecasts to the state in order to avoid state
oversight of a district's finances. Akron's failure to submit its forecast could have resulted in the
District being placed in a category of
"fiscal caution."
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Dr. Aaron Palmer
Helping Students Sew Up
a Future Career ?
In 2015 Summa Health began offering a hands-on medical exploratory
outreach
with a group of the Akron Public Schools. Since then, Summa Health's efforts have expanded to include
more students from Akron Public Schools and to include additional health systems throughout Greater Akron.
That initial program has evolved into the Future Healthcare Leaders' Summit. This year's demonstration
was held at the University of Akron.
One of the doctors participating in this year's outreach is Summa neurosurgeon and East High grad, Dr. Aaron Palmer.
Here
is his story as appearing in cleveland.com, and
here
is a report from Channel 5 News.
The photo below shows Dr. Palmer demonstrating suturing to students at this year's outreach.
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Bad news
FAFSA Glitches Continue
If you are a household with a prospective college student and were planning to submit a FAFSA application soon,
you may want to reset your calendar.
Due to all the glitches, shortcomings, and failures in the FAFSA online system and at its call centers, the U. S.
Department of Education
announced
that the FAFSA application for the 2025-26 academic year will not be available until at least
December 1 instead of its normal launch date of October 1.
On September 24 experts from the U. S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
testified
before Congress as to the reasons for the problems, past and present, occurring with the FAFSA application process.
Here
is some additional information about the FAFSA problems.
11/18 UPDATE:
The long-delayed 2025-26 updated FAFSA application is now
available.
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Polymer Academy
Seeks Young Inventors
for 17th annual Rubber Band Contest
The Akron Global Polymer Academy at the University of Akron is looking for
students in grades 5-8 with elastic minds for the 17th annual Rubber Band
Contest for Young Inventors.
The contest is divided into two divisions: Arts & Leisure and
Science & Engineering. The goal of the competition is to come up with a
working invention or piece of art that uses at least one rubber band.
About $2,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded with the first place winners
in each division earning $150 apiece, and runners-up in each division earning
$100 apiece. All entries must be postmarked no later than
February 21, 2025.
For complete contest details, entry forms, and guidelines, visit the contest web site
here.
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4 Cluster schools will be
Serving Up Better Nutrition
The Akron Public Schools have been awarded a $618,422.94 grant as part of the Ohio Deptartment of Education
Office of Nutrition's Fresh Fruit and Vegetable
Program.
The money is to be used to provide fresh fruit and vegetables to all students enrolled in Akron elementary schools.
This grant is subject to the guidelines of the U.S. Deptartment of Agriculture's Fresh Fruit and Vegetable
Program.
It requires that each selected school offer fresh fruit and vegetables to all its students and be served in addition to
the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program meal service.
The four East Cluster schools participating and the amount of their awards are as follows:
- Barber $19,853.51
- David Hill $15,579.49
- Mason $20,749.67
- Seiberling $27,436.44.
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After 112 years
Farewell to Robinson
Ever since the 1912-13 school year, students have attended a Robinson Elementary, or, more recently, Robinson
Community Learning Center. However, the 2023-24 classes were the last to attend the school. Why?
The Akron Public School's lease with the University of Akron on the Central-Hower building has expired and
will not be renewed. The latest occupants of that building, the STEM High School, needed to be relocated.
The
decision
was made by the administration and Board of Education for the school district to decommission Robinson
as an elementary school and re-open the building this school year as the new home of the STEM High School.
Students who would have attended Robinson this year have been re-assigned to either David Hill or Mason.
NOTE: The Family Resource Center, previously located at Robinson, has been moved to David Hill.
The above photo pictures the original Robinson building as it looked in October 2004.
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East
Cluster
Resources
For a list of resources helpful to residents of the East Cluster neighborhoods , click
here.
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