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Strive, CPS to use Gates Foundation grant
Cincinnati Business Courier ▪ 8/12/2008
A $490,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will help Strive LLC and Cincinnati Public Schools improve community-school relations, the two groups said Tuesday. |
Strive to improve schools using rigors of Six Sigma
Cincinnati Business Courier ▪ 8/8/2008
The Strive initiative, announced with fanfare in August 2006, is working to re-engineer the educational systems in Cincinnati, Covington and Newport from preschool through college. |
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Fifth Third Business Beat ▪ 8/8/2008
Jeff Edmondson, executive director of Strive is interviewed by Fifth Third Business Beat. |
Strive Endorses Plan to Boost CPS College Enrollment
Cincinnat Business Courier ▪ 7/28/2008
The Strive coalition has given a "stage two" endorsement to a plan by an alliance of nonprofit groups to increase the number of Cincinnati Public Schools students who enroll in college immediately following graduation. |
Free-college Programs Multiply
USA Today ▪ 7/3/2008
...Financing is a challenge for cities interested in setting up free-tuition plans. Many rely partly on private funding. Few "can get an anonymous donor like Kalamazoo," where the scholarship is funded into perpetuity, says Jeff Edmondson of Strive, a Cincinnati-area coalition drafting its own version. But "it has inspired us all to dream a little bigger." |
Striving to Improve Children's Lives
CityBeat ▪ 5/14/2008
...One of the many community programs and activities in which Zimpher is involved, if not leading, Strive is described as "a unique group of leaders representing education, business, faith, nonprofit, philanthropic and civic sectors along with input from the community-at-large, who are committed to providing a world-class education to every child in the urban for core of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky." |
Hughes is a High School to Watch
Cincinnati Enquirer ▪ 5/13/2008
...The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers, the education reform partnership Strive, Cincinnati Public Schools and a number of local corporations are joining in transforming the school into a science and math specialty school... |
Hughes Center to Transform
Cincinnati Enquirer ▪ 5/9/2008
Hughes Center in University Heights will be transformed into a specialized science and math high school by 2013, jointly operated by Cincinnati Public Schools, the University of Cincinnati and three other organizations. |
Ohio funding to create Cincinnati STEM high school
Business Courier ▪ 5/9/2008
Cincinnati Public Schools will create a science-technology-engineering-mathematics (STEM) high school at Hughes Center, with the approval of almost $600,000 in funding from the state of Ohio. |
A Roadmap to Get to Better Schools
Cincinnati Enquirer ▪ 3/21/2008
...Strive, a partnership of local corporate, social service, education, faith, non-profit, philanthropic, government and civic leaders, was formed in 2006 to improve education in the urban core. Thursday, the group released a first-time status report on district performance and student attainment... |