Board Business Meeting
2024-08-20 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Arnold Pinkney East Professional Center 1349 E 79th St Or watch on YouTube Cleveland, OH 44103
**The Board of Education** functions as the governing body of the **Cleveland Metropolitan School District**. Board responsibilities include: hiring the school district chief executive officer (with the mayor’s agreement); setting school district policy; approving the school district budget; establishing goals and accountability standards; and promoting parent, family, and community involvement in the schools.

The board has two types of meetings: a work session and a business meeting. **Work sessions focus on information gathering and debate on issues and proposed resolutions. Business meetings focus on holding official votes on resolutions.** Sometimes the board does vote on resolutions in the work sessions.

**Note:** This is the first board meeting of the 2024-25 academic year.

The board often enters **[executive session](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k197q3g-BBGP-ZvpqrxLDDyLdZuAjMvI/view?usp=share_link)**. It is a part of the meeting, though there is nothing for you to document other than noting when they enter and exit it. The board typically returns to public session, handles a small bit of business, then officially adjourns. Executive sessions can leave you waiting around for a bit, but it does count as part of the meeting time covered.

The board can have up to nine voting members, all of whom are appointed by the mayor.

**Current board members:**

* Sara Elaqad, chair
* Robert Briggs
* Midori Lebrón
* Diana Welch Howell
* Nigamanth Sridhar
* Charlene Jones

The CEO of the school district is Warren Morgan II.

**Watching remotely?**

Find the meeting live stream here:
https://www.youtube.com/@CLEMetroSchools/streams

As a second option, you may also find the live stream on the school district’s homepage during the meeting time: www.clevelandmetroschools.org.

**Attending in person?**

We add two hours of pay ($36) to the assignment.

Find past Documenters coverage of this meeting here: https://cleveland.documenters.org/reporting/?agency=241
