TITLE

At two Cleveland schools, overhauls mark a dramatic response to `desperate times'

AUTHOR(S)
Reinhard, Beth; Hendrie, Caroline
PUB. DATE
September 1997
SOURCE
Education Week;09/24/97, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p13
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Reports on the reaction of parents to the move of two Cleveland, Ohio-based schools to remove much of their staff under the terms of reconstitution strategy. Staging of protests; Factors motivating the schools to reconstitute; Superintendent Richard A Boyd's arguments about the necessity of the moves.
ACCESSION #
9710130703

Tags: SCHOOL employees;  EMPLOYEES -- Dismissal of

 

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