WELCOME records, 1971-1987.

Cleveland Public Schools

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Beginning in 1904 and for most of the twentieth century until the 1980s, the innovative Cleveland Public Schools Horticulture Program educated several generations of children from kindergarten through high school age, across many subject areas through gardening lessons. The program ran year-round as the active gardening took place in the summer "vacation" period. Some schools had "tract gardens" on-site and students would be able to tend their own garden plot on school grounds under...

Westsiders and Eastsiders Let's Come Together.

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WELCOME Leadership Institute.

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Welcome

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WELCOME (Westsiders and Eastsiders Let's Come Together) (f.1978) was started by teachers, parents, students and concerned citizens to create an atmosphere of peace and racial cooperation in response to the possibility of violence during the desegregation of the Cleveland Public Schools. WELCOME activities, which involved community centers and churches, included a series of bridgewalks across the Detroit Superior Bridge, the distribution of thousands of free WELCOME tee-shirts, the establishment ...

Office on School Monitoring and Community Relations.

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The Office on School Monitoring and Community Relations was established in 1979 in Cleveland, Ohio, as part of the Cleveland Public Schools to foster the public's understanding of desegregation mandated by Judge Frank Battisti's 1978 decision in Reed v. Rhodes and to report on its progress. Part of the office's purview was the training of school monitors who would observe, assess, and report on the variety of conditions within targeted Cleveland public schools. These training sessio...