Strive News Articles
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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... |
Strive Releases Benchmark School Data
Cincinnati Enquirer ▪ 3/20/2008
Fewer than two-thirds of incoming kindergartners in the Cincinnati, Covington and Newport public-school systems are considered academically prepared for school. At the other end of the education spectrum, students leaving those school systems are less likely to graduate from college than their peers. That’s the challenge that faces the local education partnership called Strive, which this morning released its first report on the overall state of education in the urban core of Greater Cincinnati. |
$500K To Transform Taft Elementary
Cincinnati Enquirer ▪ 2/14/2008
Cincinnati Public Schools and the Strive education partnership will get about $500,000 in state money to help transform William H. Taft Elementary School in Mount Auburn into a school specializing in math and science.... |
Mayor Mallory puts the call out for more mentors
Community Press ▪ 1/11/2008
Mayor Mark Mallory has issued a proclamation to recognize January as National Mentoring Month in Cincinnati. He is calling on more Cincinnatians to get involved in the lives of young people by becoming mentors... |
School reform we can believe in
Cincinnati Enquirer ▪ 12/18/2007
...Last week, they came en masse to our boardroom to talk about Strive, a coalition of education, business and social service leaders determined to raise achievement in our urban core. And they brought friends - the superintendents of Cincinnati Public and Newport Independent Schools, major funders and other leaders of regional economic initiatives... |
Strive Revises List of Goals
Cincinnati Enquirer ▪ 12/4/2007
About 15 months after the Strive education partnership was formed to great fanfare, the group wants to funnel money to education and early-childhood development programs that have proven they can actually work. |