November 28, 200618 yr ^ Yes. In this plan the one neighborhood school to remain (out of 3 original) in OTR is Rothenberg. The property that CPS acquired at the Mercer Commons site between Vine and Walnut is now going to be sold. I think what happens there is dependent on how successful Gateway II, one block south turns out to be. Seems like a lot of hope is hinging on the success of the 1200 block of Vine. Of the other two old school sites, Washington Park is proposed to be demolished and made into parkland (a questionable objective IMO), and the Vine Street Elementary site has no plans.
November 28, 200618 yr ^Why do you say it is a "questionable objective?" I thought that was an excellent plan.
November 28, 200618 yr Well, this should be in a different thread, but I don't see the point of expanding an existing beautiful 5 acre park just, ridding the area of lots of users just to add a couple acres of vacant greenspace. The space historically was always occupied by buildings, and those buildings historically have invigorated life in the park (beergartens, balconies, playgrounds and swimming pools). Also the buildings on the east and west sides of the park are significant and are made to face a park, whereas the buildings along 14th Street are more suitable to a secondary street.
November 28, 200618 yr ^Okay, I see what you mean. I've only really tried to enter Washington Park once, and it was packed with people, so I never had the notion that the addition would be vacant.
December 6, 200618 yr CPS decides $1B school plan BY JENNIFER MROZOWSKI | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER December 6, 2006 CINCINNATI - Cincinnati Public Schools’ board of education is expected to take a second vote today on a plan to cut its $1 billion construction project by 13 schools. This vote will solidify an agreement with the state, which is helping fund the districtwide construction project. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061206/NEWS0102/312060018
December 9, 200618 yr From the 12/7/06 Enquirer: 13 Cincinnati school cuts confirmed BY JENNIFER MROZOWSKI | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER Cincinnati Public Schools' board of education took a second vote Wednesday to cut 13 schools from its $1 billion construction project. The 4-1 vote solidifies an agreement with the state, which is helping to pay for the districtwide construction project to the tune of around $175 million. Board member Catherine Ingram voted against the plan. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061207/NEWS0102/612070355/1058/NEWS01 From the 12/4/06 Enquirer: Beginning work on school celebrated THE ENQUIRER Cincinnati Public Schools officials will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for Bond Hill Academy at 10 a.m. today. The 67,282-square-foot school will be a replica of the original Georgian Revival building, which was recognizable by its two-story portico front entrance lined with Corinthian columns. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061204/NEWS01/612040361/1056/COL02 From the 12/1/06 Enquirer: Parents get wish: Montessori school Input had big effect on new CPS building BY JENNIFER MROZOWSKI | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER Cincinnati Public Schools officials broke ground Thursday for the new Pleasant Ridge School, which will be the system's first neighborhood Montessori school. Though the district will hold the keys when the building opens in 2008, residents, teachers and parents say they feel they are the real owners. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061201/NEWS0102/612010342/1058/NEWS01 From the 11/26/06 Enquirer: PHOTO: Dressed in blue and yellow school colors, which he wears almost every day, Principal Marvin Koenig stands in the hallway during dismissal at Walnut Hills High School. He himself will be leaving the school at the end of the year. The Enquirer / Carrie Cochran Principal stands tall for Walnut Koenig to retire from rarefied atmosphere BY JENNIFER MROZOWSKI | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER The veteran leader of Walnut Hills High School is retiring at the end of this school year, leaving some to wonder what's in store for Cincinnati's top public high school. Marvin O. Koenig has been the principal there for more than 14 years, helping the already-prestigious school - thought by many as the crown jewel of the city school system - gain national acclaim. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061126/NEWS0102/611260363/1077/COL02&GID=efp2+VdHI0ismE3tyhkbKkI/JhRCxmWtK6Ba/+9aXCA%3D
January 15, 200718 yr From the 12/12/06 Enquirer: Students' move to similar or better school OK'd BY JENNIFER MROZOWSKI | [email protected] Cincinnati students who are forced to change public schools when their buildings are renovated, rebuilt or closed will no longer have to worry about transferring to a lower-performing school. Under a new guideline approved Monday by the Cincinnati Public Schools' Board of Education, redistricting resulting from the $1 billion construction project now will be linked to student achievement. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061212/NEWS0102/612120363/1058/NEWS01
January 15, 200718 yr From the 12/13/06 Enquirer: Kilgour School groundbreaking today THE ENQUIRER Cincinnati Public Schools' officials will break ground for renovations at Kilgour School at 10 a.m. today. The $11.2 million building will include a 23,630-square-foot addition and a full renovation of the existing building for 450 students. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061213/NEWS0102/612130390/1058/NEWS01 From CityBeat, 12/13/06: Cutting Classes Lowering expectations for Cincinnati Public Schools' building plan By Margo Pierce Vanessa White is unhappy with the way the Cincinnati Board of Education went about deciding to close nine schools and eliminating thousands of seats from the district, but not because of the cuts -- it's the way they were made that bothers her. "I'm a huge advocate of the district, I believe in working for and with the system, so it's important to me to have as much information and understanding as possible," White says. "What I'm really commenting on is the process more than the solution. It's hard to accept the solution when I haven't been engaged in the process. There's never been an engagement process where there's been an exchange of information." http://www.citybeat.com/2006-12-13/news.shtml
January 15, 200718 yr From the 12/14/06 Enquirer: New Kilgour a bow to the past BY JENNIFER MROZOWSKI | [email protected] MOUNT LOOKOUT - Architects tackling the Kilgour School renovation had a big challenge: refurbish and build an addition to the 84-year-old school while preserving its historic façade. Not an easy task. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061214/NEWS0102/612140381/1058/NEWS01
January 15, 200718 yr From CityBeat, 12/27/06: Artists in the Neighborhood New Clifton center to be major community resource By Margo Pierce When a school tax levy is on the ballot, supporters talk about how schools are important for the entire community, not just kids and their parents. In Clifton, residents without kids are playing a significant role in the design and planning for the new Fairview German Language School and breathing new life into the old Clifton School building. "People on our board, on the school planning team and in the community engagement don't have children," says Cindy Herrick, president of the Clifton Cultural Arts Center (CCAC) board. "Having the community learning center is important. It is a project that excites across age groups, whether you have kids or not, married or single. That's been one of the gratifying things for me." http://www.citybeat.com/2006-12-27/news.shtml
January 15, 200718 yr From the 12/31/06 Enquirer: Carthage dismayed by looming loss of Paideia In the Schools BY JENNIFER MROZOWSKI | [email protected] Carthage residents have a motto for their neighborhood: "Deeply rooted. Planning to stay." That's why the community remains distraught over Cincinnati Public Schools' decision last month to stick with plans to close Carthage Paideia School. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061231/NEWS0102/612310373/1058/NEWS01
January 15, 200718 yr From the 1/2/07 Enquirer: Schools want to speed up projects Quick construction called a cost-saver BY JENNIFER MROZOWSKI | [email protected] Build it and they will come. At least, that's what Cincinnati Public Schools' officials hope. The district has accelerated its construction schedule for buildings that remain part of a $1 billion building project. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070102/NEWS0102/701020347/1058/NEWS01
January 15, 200718 yr From the 1/4/07 Enquirer: PHOTO: Principal Yevetta Harper welcomes students to the new Shroder High School on Wednesday, students' first day back from winter break. The Enquirer / Jennifer Mrozowski New school for the new year BY JENNIFER MROZOWSKI | [email protected] Principal Yevetta Harper said it wasn't unheard of to plug in a coffee pot and blow out a computer at the former Shroder Paideia High School building, but that shouldn't happen anymore. A new $15 million Shroder opened Wednesday on Duck Creek Road in Madisonville, along with the new Ethel M. Taylor Academy on Fricke Road in Millvale, as part of the district's $1 billion construction project. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070104/NEWS0102/701040345/1058/NEWS01
January 17, 200718 yr Wow! woodward and Scpa are awesome. I think the new fairview school design has changed, I saw a different design at glaserworks.
January 22, 200718 yr I found this particularily interesting considering CPS is fully embracing the K-8 concept. From the January 22, 2007 New York Times: Taking Middle Schoolers Out of the Middle By ELISSA GOOTMAN When John Smith, a swaggering sixth grader at one of New York City’s growing collection of kindergarten- through eighth-grade schools, feels lost, he heads downstairs to the colorful classroom of his former third-grade teacher, Randi Silverman, for what she calls a “Silverman hug.” “When I get mad I go to her,” John, 11, said amid the lunchtime buzz in the cafeteria of his school, Public School 105, on the Rockaway peninsula in Queens. “When I feel frustrated I’ll go to her. When I feel like I can’t do it no more I go to her, and she tells me I have to do it.” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/education/22middle.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
January 26, 200718 yr Fairview German Language School has a page describing the new building and they plan on posting construction pictures during each phase: http://fairview.cps-k12.org/newschool.html
January 26, 200718 yr I don't see how anything remotely close to that design for SCPA could be passed with so much opposition for the glass facade near music hall.
February 17, 200718 yr CPS forced to hack $39M from budget BY DENISE SMITH AMOS | [email protected] Cincinnati Public Schools officials are preparing to chop as much as $39 million - or about 9 percent - from the district's projected fiscal 2007-08 budget of roughly $430 million. The cuts are likely to result in earlier than planned closures of some schools, including some in the fall, and some reductions in school and administrative staff, said Eileen Cooper Reed, school board president. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070217/NEWS0102/702170394
February 21, 200718 yr CPS may close, move schools BY DENISE SMITH AMOS | [email protected] February 21, 2007 CINCINNATI - Cincinnati may close or consolidate five elementary schools at the end of this school year, moving hundreds of students, in an effort to save $3 million to $3.5 million a year, Superintendent Rosa Blackwell told Cincinnati Public board members this afternoon. Blackwell is recommending that Central Fairmount, Gamble in Westwood, and Carthage Paideia Academy all close, and their students and some of their staff sent to other nearby schools. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070221/NEWS01/302210055
February 21, 200718 yr Wait a tick.... "Washington Park and Rothenberg students may attend Rothenberg, which is in the old Vine Elementary building while a new Rothenberg is being built." That would mean consolidating 3 schools into what is a very small space to begin with. Vine St Elem., Wash Park Elem., and Rothenberg all into 60,000 sq ft? HUH! have at it.
February 22, 200718 yr Wait a tick.... "Washington Park and Rothenberg students may attend Rothenberg, which is in the old Vine Elementary building while a new Rothenberg is being built." That would mean consolidating 3 schools into what is a very small space to begin with. Vine St Elem., Wash Park Elem., and Rothenberg all into 60,000 sq ft? HUH! have at it. According to wcpo.com today.. Superintendent Blackwell is recommending that Heberle and Hays Schools be consolidated at the new Hays location in the West End. She also suggests that Washington Park and Rothenberg Elementary Schools be joined together at the current Rothenberg site in the Over-The-Rhine. Washington Park is being redeveloped by 3CDC -- The Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation. Which rothenburg??? vine st elem(rothenburg) is not in OTR so do they mean the rothenurg on mcmicken??
February 22, 200718 yr She seems to be saying that all OTR student will attend the Vine Street site while the old Rothenberg school is rebuilt. I agree with Mike R above that it sounds like squeezing 3 schools of kids into one is going to be difficult.
February 27, 200718 yr CPS to shut five schools One, Carthage Paideia, is among few 'effective' BY DENISE SMITH AMOS | [email protected] February 27, 2007 CINCINNATI - The Cincinnati school board Monday night unanimously approved the superintendent's plan to close or consolidate five schools at the end of the school year. The late-night vote came after about 10 parents, teachers and an 8-year-old student decried the coming budget cuts and school consolidations. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070227/NEWS0102/702270370/1077/COL02
March 2, 200718 yr CPS wants answers on building plan BY DENISE SMITH AMOS | [email protected] March 2, 2007 CINCINNATI - Five years into its $1 billion building plan, Cincinnati Public Schools this week hired a new project manager to oversee it. The firm’s first order of business will be to answer school board members’ questions about cost overruns and management decisions in the project, school leaders said. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070302/NEWS01/303020050
March 14, 200718 yr From the 1/11/07 Eastern Hills Journal: Council considers options for Hyde Park school BY FORREST SELLERS | COMMUNITY PRESS STAFF WRITER HYDE PARK - The Hyde Park Neighborhood Council is trying to help determine the fate of Hyde Park School. Cincinnati Public Schools will ultimately decide what to do with the building once Kilgour moves into its new facility. However, Darlene Green Kamine, a consultant for the Cincinnati Public Schools, discussed several options during council's Jan. 9 meeting. http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070111/NEWS01/701110393/1090/Local
March 14, 200718 yr From the 1/29/07 Cincinnati Business Courier: CPS goal for construction contracts gaining ground More projects awarded to minority, women-owned firms Cincinnati Business Courier - January 26, 2007 by Lucy May Senior Staff Reporter Three years into its $1 billion building program, Cincinnati Public Schools is making progress toward its goals for awarding construction contracts to businesses owned by minorities and women. So far, the district has awarded 12.3 percent of its contracts to minority-owned businesses and 7.4 percent to firms owned by women, said Russ Alford, a Turner Construction Co. project executive and construction manager for the CPS project. http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2007/01/29/story7.html
March 14, 200718 yr From the 2/26/07 Eastern Hills Journal: Survey to focus on Hyde Park school BY FORREST SELLERS | COMMUNITY PRESS STAFF WRITER HYDE PARK - The Hyde Park Neighborhood Council wants feedback on the former Hyde Park school. Cincinnati Public Schools is using the building, which closed at the end of the 2004-2005 school year, as a transition space for other schools in the district that are undergoing renovations or construction of new facilities. http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070226/NEWS01/702260436/1090/Local
March 14, 200718 yr From the 2/2/07 Enquirer: School a tribute to stubborn advocate BY DENISE SMITH AMOS | [email protected] Just before Cincinnati Public school officials dedicated the new, $11.2 million Ethel M. Taylor Academy in Millvale on Thursday, a woman briefly stood out in front, staring at the school name and wiping away tears. She was Christine Williamson of North College Hill, Taylor's daughter. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070202/NEWS0102/702020363/
March 14, 200718 yr From the 3/3/07 Enquirer: New manager for $1B building project at CPS BY DENISE SMITH AMOS | [email protected] Five years into its $1 billion building plan, Cincinnati Public Schools this week hired a new project manager to oversee it. The firm's first order of business will be to answer school board members' questions about cost overruns and management decisions in the project, school leaders said. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070303/NEWS0102/703030361/
March 14, 200718 yr From the 3/7/07 Enquirer: Cuts trickle down to city schools BY DENISE SMITH AMOS | [email protected] Each Cincinnati public school will have to get by with about $500 less per pupil next fall, district leaders said Wednesday. As the district prepares to cut $39 million from next year’s $430 million budget, principals are being told they’ll have 10 percent less to spend – or about $4,632 per student next year, down from $5,147 this year. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070307/NEWS01/303070050/
March 14, 200718 yr From the 3/13/07 Enquirer: Carthage Paideia to close after school year BY DENISE SMITH AMOS | [email protected] A magnet school rated "effective' by the state last year will close earlier than planned, Cincinnati Public Schools Superintendent Rosa Blackwell confirmed Monday night. But school board members debated whether the school's program should die when the building closes at the end of this school year. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070313/NEWS0102/703130374/
March 15, 200718 yr Let's see. A school board that is made up primarily of people who never went through the Cincinnati Public School system decides to close what is probably the best elementary scool in Cincinnati. A Superintendent who decides not to even try to fight to keep the school open because she claims that her job is to close shools. And she gets a salary increase for doing so. In the meantime, these good students will end up in a school that is not as good. And they wonder why families are moving out of Cincinnati. :cry:
March 15, 200718 yr From the 3/15/07 Enquirer: Board may split planning for new school buildings BY DENISE SMITH AMOS | [email protected] Cincinnati's school board is expected to vote again on whether to allow nine architects to start planning the last part of the district's $1 billion construction program. The board may vote March 26, but may include a directive to split the remaining 22 projects into two groups. One group could begin immediately, while the other could be delayed, Ron Kull, one of the new project managers, told a board committee Wednesday. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070315/NEWS0102/703150370/1058/NEWS01
March 29, 200718 yr City schools hire architects BY CINDY KRANZ | [email protected] March 29, 2007 CORRYVILLE - The third and final phase of Cincinnati Public Schools' $1 billion building project got the green light as the board approved hiring architects. Ten firms were hired for about $18.9 million to design the 22 remaining schools and provide architect services through the construction. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070329/NEWS01/703290328/1058
April 16, 200718 yr CPS to debate moving Carthage School's curriculum, staff would move to Pleasant Hill BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] April 16, 2007 Carthage Paideia Academy, a highly rated school scheduled to close in June, would instead have its staff and curriculum transferred to another school building about four miles to the west, if Cincinnati Public Schools board member Rick Williams gets his way. Under a plan Williams will raise at a board meeting tonight, Carthage would move into Pleasant Hill Academy in College Hill. As a result, Pleasant Hill's traditional kindergarten-through-eighth-grade curriculum would end, Williams said.
April 16, 200718 yr The timetable Projects to begin immediately Rothenberg (renovation) I have a dollar in my pocket that says this does not happen. And did I just skip over it, where is SCPA? Should this not appear in the unresolved pile?
April 17, 200718 yr I think SCPA is in the earlier group of "already started" projects. I also heard that a deal is back in the works for the Drop Inn Center to sell the buildings on the site, so that SCPA will own the full city block.
April 17, 200718 yr I think SCPA is in the earlier group of "already started" projects. I also heard that a deal is back in the works for the Drop Inn Center to sell the buildings on the site, so that SCPA will own the full city block. You may be correct, but it just seems that the very situation that you just described plus funding, are the very definition of Projects waiting for issues to be resolved
April 18, 200718 yr I hear what you are saying. It seems like the project that never seems to get going. However, late last year they changed the building plans leaving the corner buildings to keep the project on track. They would like to have the entire block but they could proceed without it if necessary.
April 18, 200718 yr From the 4/18/07 Enquirer: Outsiders help overhaul schools 14-week top-to-bottom assessment is under way BY DENISE SMITH AMOS | [email protected] Cincinnati Public Schools has invited outsiders to look at its operations and help restructure the district, from its front office to its classrooms, school leaders said Tuesday. They've asked Strive - a regional collaborative of university, business and education leaders - to conduct a 14-week review of the school district and begin recommending changes. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070418/NEWS0102/704180398/
April 21, 200718 yr From the 4/21/07 Enquirer: CPS to lay off about 88 teachers Cincinnati Public Schools will lay off about 88 teachers at the end of the school year, according to a proposal Superintendent Rosa Blackwell will submit to the board of education at a meeting Monday. Details of the layoffs were not available from CPS administrators on Friday, but Sue Taylor, president of the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers, said her union had been notified of 88 layoffs at last count. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070421/NEWS0102/704210389/
April 24, 200718 yr From the 4/24/07 Enquirer: CPS announces job cuts BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] Saying that Cincinnati Public Schools has entered even thicker financial quicksand than in the past, Superintendent Rosa Blackwell said Monday a round of job cuts was the best way to start climbing out. Acting on her advice, the Board of Education unanimously approved Blackwell's plan to cut 99 teachers and 16 professional student support workers from next school year's budget. Three other teachers were fired for performance-related issues. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070424/NEWS0102/704240381/-1/rss From the 4/23/07 Eastern Hills Journal: Anticipation for new school builds BY FORREST SELLERS | COMMUNITY PRESS STAFF WRITER HYDE PARK - Completion of the new Kilgour school may be a year away, but its principal is already setting up a welcome mat. "(The students) can now be competitive in the 21st century," said principal Angela Cook about the new technological upgrades. http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070423/NEWS01/704230367/1002/RSS01
April 25, 200718 yr Both from the 4/25/07 Enquirer: City schools: 115 laid off Teacher transfers, larger classes loom BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] Layoffs at Cincinnati Public Schools triggered a wave of concern throughout the district Tuesday, as teachers prepared for more work and larger class sizes, while others wondered what bad news is next for the cash-starved school system. While the 115 job cuts approved Monday will slash a projected $9 million in spending next year, the impact of those cuts on students isn't clear, said school board member Catherine Ingram, who supported the layoffs along with the rest of the board. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070425/NEWS0102/704250397/ Bortz wants to explore school takeover BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] Cincinnati City Councilman Chris Bortz said today it’s time for the city to look into taking over control of Cincinnati Public Schools. Bortz said he is frustrated with the management, direction and performance of the city’s public schools. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20070425/NEWS01/304250041/
April 26, 200718 yr City control of schools urged Bortz's idea resurrects proposal that fizzled before BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] April 26, 2007 CINCINNATI - The strong-mayor form of government has worked so well in Cincinnati that it's time to consider bringing it to the city's public schools, City Councilman Chris Bortz said Wednesday. Bortz, a first-term councilman running for re-election, floated the idea of allowing Mayor Mark Mallory to take over Cincinnati Public Schools by replacing its elected board with mayoral appointees.
April 26, 200718 yr ^ This would have been a great idea 5-10 years ago, then the scholl reconstruction money could have been strategically used to help revitatalize neighborhoods.
April 27, 200718 yr ^ This would have been a great idea 5-10 years ago, then the scholl reconstruction money could have been strategically used to help revitatalize neighborhoods. You mean two different institutions working together towards a greater goal!?!?!? Sounds like crazy talk to me.
May 1, 200718 yr From the 5/1/07 Enquirer: City schools vote to start preparation for tax levy Construction managers say they'll control costs BY BEN FISCHER | [email protected] The Cincinnati Board of Education on Monday took a tentative, cautious step toward asking taxpayers for more money to run the schools. After a brief conversation over how best to broach the subject with voters, the board directed its finance committee to begin researching how much money is needed and when to ask for it, if at all. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070501/NEWS0102/705010397/1058/NEWS01
May 5, 200718 yr Merger of schools, city could work May 4, 2007 | CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER Opinion Piece There's talk of a merger in our region that we wholeheartedly support. This merger would be between Cincinnati Public Schools and the city of Cincinnati.
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