National School Public Relations Association Recognizes CHUH Website

Chuh.org receives award of merit

Heights High Assistant Coach Is Now Stable

Mario Houston was in critical condition after suffering a major stroke Friday, but is now stable

Cleveland Heights High School assistant football coach Mario Houston is now in stable condition after suffering a massive stroke on Friday at midnight. "They have begun to take him off of some of the medication, and he tried a few times to open his eyes last night," said district spokeswoman Angee Shaker by email. "He will have a long road ahead. But at this point, he is stable." Houston, 40, had no prior medical condition, sources in the school's athletic department said. The incident happened at home. Houston had surgery Friday at the Cleveland Clinic to relieve pressure on his brain, and was in critical condition, Shaker said. The Heights High football game against Euclid was moved from Friday night to Saturday morning, and the Tigers …

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New Heights Boys' Basketball Coach Official

The CHUH School Board approved Andy Suttell's supplemental contract at Tuesday night's special meeting

Andy Suttell will lead the Cleveland Heights High boys' varsity basketball team starting this fall.  At Tuesday's Cleveland Heights-University Heights Special School Board meeting at Wiley Middle School, members approved the former Euclid coach's supplemental contract as head coach of the boys' basketball team.  Members had approved his teaching contract at the regular board meeting July 5, and he will teach in the Opportunity Lab, which helps students who are behind in earning credits at CHHS.  He will receive $7,128 to coach the Tigers and $63,800 to teach.  Heights Athletic Director Kristin Hughes spoke about the process of hiring Suttell.  The school received 73 applications, she said. A committee comprised of Hughes, four coaches, two…

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Gifted Programs at CHUH Elementary Schools to be Consolidated

Roxboro and Boulevard elementary schools to be new sites with a third to be named later

The gifted program that serves students at all seven Cleveland Heights-University Heights elementary schools will be consolidated into two buildings beginning next year, with a third to be added at a later date. Boulevard and Roxboro elementary schools have been chosen as the two sites and will serve about 124 students who have been identified as gifted and talented according to standards set by the state. The change was inspired when it became clear that this year's gifted program was no longer effective. Results from the 2011 Ohio Achievement Assessments showed that only 57 percent of students enrolled in the gifted program scored “advanced” in math and that 11 weren’t proficient. Only 24 percent of those students scored “advanced” in …

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More than 120 CHUH Teachers Will Be in New Schools or Have Different Assignments Next Year

20 percent of teachers will have a new role for the 2011-2012 school year

More than 120 teachers received hand-delivered letters from their building principals June 1 telling them that they would be teaching in a different Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School or a new subject, grade or assignment for the 2011-2012 school year.  Out of 589 teachers in the district, 124, or about 20 percent of teachers, have new assignments next year, said Nilajean McDaniel, director of human resources, during Tuesday’s CHUH School Board meeting. Fifty-six teachers will still be in their school building but will teach a new grade, subject or have a more specific assignment.  “Whenever there is a change in programming, what we try to do is look very carefully at the staff we have in place and … determine which staff …

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Reports From Citizens' Committees, Consultant Suggest Closing Schools in CHUH District

A public meeting for residents to provide their input scheduled for 7 tonight

Reports from a consultant to the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District include several options for managing the district’s outdated buildings, including one that would require the eventual closing of six schools. But if no schools are closed, renovations necessary to bring the 11 existing buildings* to 21st-century standards could cost as much as $226 million.  The renovations envision dramatic changes to the layout of school buildings, creating much larger classrooms divided by glass partitions, converting hallways and other unused spaces into learning centers, multi-building, campus-like school sites and amphitheater-style classrooms outside, among several other suggestions. Basic heating, cooling, electric and plumbing …

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linda jenkins

2:12 am on Saturday, May 14, 2011

Dave,I agree the noise is not visisble,but it can be heard.It would be nice to hear from the teachers.While they are teaching science ,another teacher could be teaching math behind the petition.Hopefully the students can focus.WE use this design in Sunday school and it can be distracting,because I really want to know about Genisis to Revelation,sometimes I can't receive the lesson my sunday …   more ›

Nearly 40 CHUH Teachers Awarded Tenure

Teachers were honored at the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School Board meeting, and others given awards and recognition

Almost 40 teachers in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District were given continuing contract status awards and recognized at Tuesday's regular school board meeting at Wiley Middle School.  In addition, the district received two awards from the Ohio School Public Relations Association. One award recognized the CHUH schools for its calendar, compiled by parents, teachers, secretaries, principals and Jackie Elfvin, administrative assistant for the communications department who entered in the information. Another award was given to the district for a video by Angee Shaker, communications director and Jeff Glass, interactive media teacher at Cleveland Heights High School. The film was 10 minutes long and documented the Heights …

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Cleveland Heights-University Heights School Facilities Committee to Meet Wednesday

Two committee subgroups, options and financial assessment, will present recommendations to improve district buildings and ideas to pay for the proposed projects

For the past seven months, the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School Facilities Committee has been studying buildings in the district and offering suggestions to improve the antiquated structures to accommodate new learning technology while preserving as many historical features as possible. The committee, comprised of nonprofit leaders, principals, teachers, residents, parents, city council and school board members and other city and school officials, will have its next public meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Monticello Middle School library. The committee has four subgroups, and the Options Subcommittee and Financial Assessment Subcommittee will share recommendations at this week's meeting. The committee and subgroups were formed…

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Update: CHUH School District Unions Forgo Cost-of-Living Wage Increases

Members agree to a two-year contract extension, and school board approves it at work session Tuesday night

Updated 10 a.m. Wednesday: All five unions in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District have agreed to give up cost-of-living wage increases and continue with the same contract for the next two years. Union members, including teachers, custodians, secretaries, food service workers and administrators, received 2.5 percent increases in their pay this year and last year, but voted to eliminate that until 2013 as the district faces budget constraints.  The CHUH School Board approved the measure at its work session Tuesday night. While the agreement doesn’t necessarily protect staff from layoffs, Superintendent Douglas Heuer said if the district had to let teachers go, he would have had to announce it at Tuesday’s meeting, as he …

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Superintendent Suggests Changes to Improve Literacy

Douglas Heuer, superintendent of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights schools, highlights concerns about reading levels during his State of the Schools speech

This is the first in a series of articles about the concerns and accomplishments highlighted in Superintendent Douglas Heuer's State of the Schools speech Jan. 26. Douglas Heuer told those who came to hear his State of the Schools address Wednesday night an alarming fact. Thirty percent of third graders in the district are "consistently" not reading at grade level, according to state tests, and those who do not catch up by the end of that critical year are unlikely to ever do so, said Heuer, superintendent of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District.  The district is below the Ohio average, as 78 percent of students read at grade level in the third grade, according to the most recent state report card. One way he said he …

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Bill McNamara

11:53 am on Wednesday, August 24, 2011

If the local libraries are to be a factor, there needs to be more of an emphasis on reading in these buildings. I recommend that anyone interested visit the local libraries in the CH area. There is too much emphasis on these locations acting as a social meeting place or as a facility for lending videos than for reading. It doesn't surprise me that reading is a deficiency in the district, based …   more ›