Category: Education

The CLEVELAND ACADEMY was created in 1821, when the trustees of the Village of Cleveland raised over $200 for the construction of a new and larger school. The new 2-story brick schoolhouse, completed in 1822, was located on the north side of St. Clair Ave. On 26 June 1822, the academy was opened under the direction of Rev. Wm. McLean as headmaster.

Please see SIEGAL COLLEGE.

CLEVELAND CONGRESS OF MOTHERS. See CLEVELAND COUNCIL OF PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS.

The CLEVELAND COUNCIL OF PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS (PTAs) was organized in Apr. 1902 at FIRST PRESBYTERIAN OLD STONE CHURCH as the Cleveland Congress of Mothers. The local organization was affiliated with the Ohio Congress of Mothers, formed in 1901 at the convention of the National Congress of Mothers in Columbus. Louisa (Mrs.

The CLEVELAND FREE SCHOOL, or Colored Free School, was organized by a committee of black citizens who were concerned about the lack of educational opportunities for Cleveland's black children between 1832 and the early 1850s. The school, open intermittently during the period in several locations, also helped to educate adults whose education had been banned in southern states.

CLEVELAND HEBREW SCHOOLS is a community afternoon supplemental school for instruction in Hebrew and religious studies. The nondenominational school is principally involved in teaching Hebrew to children who do not attend Jewish day schools. It traces its origins to the creation in 1885 of the Sir Moses Montefiore Hebrew School, located at Broadway and Cross streets and known as the Talmud Torah. The school moved to E.

CLEVELAND MEDICAL COLLEGE. See CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV.

CLEVELAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Cleveland's public schools are rooted in the campaign to provide a tax-supported, compulsory system of education that began with Horace Mann in Massachusetts and Henry Barnard in Connecticut during the late 1820s. They and other reformers in the antebellum era fought to create a legal and financial basis for public education and to include secondary schooling in the system.

The CLEVELAND SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, at 2064 Stearns Road, just west of the CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY campus, was, as of 2006, considered one of the city's leading public schools and is perhaps the district's most visible and popular program for grades (as of 2023) 9-12.

CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY (est. 1965) occupies a campus of approx. 70 acres and 37 buildings centered on Euclid Ave. between E. 17th St. and the Innerbelt Freeway. CSU consists of 7 colleges: Fenn College of Engineering, James J. Nance College of Business Administration, Arts & Sciences, Education, Urban Affairs, Graduate Studies, and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

CLEVELAND UNIVERSITY became the city's first institution of higher learning in a brief career lasting from 1851-53. It was chartered by the Ohio general assembly on 5 Mar.

COBB, WILLIAM MONTAGUE (12 October 1904-20 November 1990) was an AFRICAN AMERICAN activist-scholar who protested scientific racism, promoted African American healthcare, and tried to develop Black research; in 1932, he was the first B

COMMUNITY GARDENING in Cleveland - cultivating gardens for a civic purpose – dates back to the first years of the twentieth century.

COPE, BETTY (20 Dec. 1925 – 14 Sep. 2013), a Cleveland native, was a woman director in the male-dominated early days of television. She led the way to found WVIZ TV (Channel 25) and bring educational television to Northeast Ohio. She was the first woman to become the president and general manager of a major market TV station in the US.  

CUTLER, HANN

CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE opened in Sept. 1963, 2 years after the Ohio legislature passed enabling legislation to create a statewide system of community colleges. Tri-C was designed to meet the need for low-cost, convenient, skill-oriented career and academic training among minorities, women, older students, and displaced workers.

DAVID N. MYERS UNIVERSITY has a long history as a private, independent, nonprofit institution of higher education awarding associate and baccalaureate degrees, mainly in occupational programs in business and commerce technologies, although it recently expanded to include an MBA program beginning in January 2000.

DYKE COLLEGE. See DAVID N. MYERS UNIVERSITY.