Board of Education meets tonight at 6 p.m.
The Shaker Heights City School Board meets tonight at 6 p.m. in the Shaker Heights High School small auditorium. Click the PDF above to see the full agenda.
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Here are the numbers that make up your property tax bill this year
Shaker Heights property taxes will rise by more than 4 mills this year, making the community the second-highest rate in the state, according to data provided by The Plain Dealer and Cleveland.com. Homeowners will pay $3,797 for every $100,000 in home value this year, up from $3,628 last year, according to the database. Overall millage stands at 123.98 this year, compared to 118.48 in 2012. Shaker's rate was second in Ohio behind a location right around the corner — the Shaker Square portion of Cleveland in the Shaker Heights School District. Despite the high ranking, the Shaker school board in October approved a five-year financial forecast that, in part, assumed that voters would approve a 9.9-mill levy in 2014. In 2012, Shaker had the …
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The profile is based on meetings, interviews and surveys from more than 500 community leaders, parents, students, residents and district employees
Though Shaker Schools is still months away from picking a replacement for outgoing superintendent Mark Freeman, the district has established the type of candidate it is looking for. Illinois-based executive search firm Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates is helping the district along the way, and a representative attended a Shaker school board meeting Tuesday night to share results of the company's efforts thus far. Dr. Marvin Edwards, a senior associate at HYA who has worked for districts in Illinois, Texas and Virginia, presented the "leadership profile" the consultant put together after spending time in the Shaker community. The profile is based on the responses HYA received in a recent two-day series of one-on-one interviews and …
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Browse highlights from the Nov. 7 regular board meeting.
The board's regular meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. today at the Shaker Heights City Schools Administrative Offices.
The Shaker Heights School Board will meet at 6 p.m. today in the Shaker Heights City Schools Administrative Offices, 15600 Parkland Drive. Board members will consider various assignment changes, supplemental contracts, appointments and resignations, according to the agenda, included in the PDFs section of this article. The board will also consider the retirement of Dianne Derrick, a teacher in the Shaker Schools for 29 years. She most recently taught enriched language arts at Woodbury School, and her retirement will be effective at the end of the 2011-2012 school year. And the resignation of another 30-year veteran, Timothy Bates, head custodian at Shaker Heights High School, is also on the agenda. If approved, his retirement would be …
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Mark Zetzer
9:30 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Any attempt at a property tax levy in 2014 will be met with well-organized and well-funded opposition, including a bright spotlight of reason on the dark scare tactics of the self-serving, tax-and-spend Shaker machine. The school board would do well to begin downsizing now. Taxes have been going up in Shaker for way too long and need to start going down, not up, if we're ever going to attract and… more ›