Cincinnati Public Schools

Still, one doctor told the board it doesn't look like schools will be a risky point of transmission.

“The work that we have to do with our children is too great for us to do in isolation," Superintendent Iranetta Wright says. "It really takes all of us to ensure our students are successful and they meet their full potential.”

As summer winds down and preparations for a new school year begin, some educators across the country are debating the best way to teach students how to read.

With nearly 36,000 students in 65 schools spread across a 91-square-mile school district, Cincinnati Public Schools has plenty to prepare for the start of a new school year.

With a little more than two weeks before the start of the 2022-23 school year, Cincinnati Public Schools' board announced it had reached an agreement with SORTA to resume subsidized Metro bus rides for students. Last year, the agreement had abruptly ended just weeks before the start of school.

Three interns from UC's DAAP college are helping Cincinnati Public School students create colorful murals to greet their classmates when school resumes this fall.

The ACLU of Ohio says Cincinnati Public Schools "perpetuates harm and reinforces the school-to-prison pipeline," with racially disparate discipline.

The Cincinnati Public Schools Board of Education is set to vote on the 2023 fiscal year budget next Monday. The district's five-year budget forecast targeted $613 million for fiscal year 2023; the budget draft presented Wednesday is $608.6 million.

According to Board Policy 7217, the only individuals allowed to carry firearms within CPS are Cincinnati Police officers and other law enforcement personnel.

Crossing guards in Cincinnati will see pay increases from $11 per hour to $15 per hour. Roughly 150 crossing guards are employed by the city, but are paid for by Cincinnati Public Schools. Toward the end of the 2021-22 school year, there were 44 vacancies, roughly a third of the total positions.