Category: Cleveland, OH

Almost all of Ohio’s voucher cash goes to religious schools

Almost all of the money from Ohio’s main tuition voucher programs – 97 percent of it – flows to private religious schools, a Plain Dealer examination of records from the 2015-16 school year shows. And Catholic and other Christian schools in Cleveland are the biggest winners, thanks to a Cleveland-only voucher program that was the first in the state when it started in 1996.

ICYMI: Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s three terms in office

With Mayor Frank Jackson’s announcement Tuesday that he will be seeking an unprecedented fourth four-year term, cleveland.com takes a look back at his record and policy decisions – his strengths and vulnerabilities — that likely will take center stage as more challengers enter the race. From police violence to economic development, the airport to the city’s schools, these are some of the issues upon which the next mayor of Cleveland will be chosen.

Divers refine search area for plane missing in Lake Erie

Searchers using sonar continued scanning a more refined search area in Lake Erie Thursday, as they continue to recover debris from the plane which carried six people before disappearing from radar last month. At a press conference in Cleveland, city and airport officials confirmed that some of the wreckage brought up from the lake was part of the Cessna 525 Citation believed to be carrying Boardman High School graduates John and Suzanne Fleming, their sons, a neighbor and his daughter.

Khalid Bahurr, commissioner for Burke Lakefront Airport

After the U.S. Coast Guard called of its search for a plane that went missing the city of Cleveland is now taking over a recovery mission in Lake Erie with the help of private and U.S. Marine Corps divers. A timetable is unknown, according to Khalid Bahurr who is the commissioner for Burke Lakefront Airport.