The advance of technology in the Cleveland City Schools over the last eight years has been overwhelming. In 1994, an instructional supervisor managed the two computer labs and less than 100 computers that were in operation. None of the computers were networked and use of internet resources and email did not exist for our schools. Maintenance and repair were handled by hiring contracted services or by staff members in their spare time. As a result, when a computer was in need of repair, it was often days or weeks before it was back in operation.
Currently the Cleveland City Schools Technology Department, with its staff of three employees and three contractors, manages and maintains access to network resources for over 1800 computers; email service for over 650 employees; wide area networks that connect schools and local area networks that provide access to printers, information databases, and curricula software like SuccessMaker, Nova Net, and Accelerated Reader. In addition, Technology is responsible for telecommunications, surveillance equipment, video, and technology staff development. All schools are networked and most state reporting is done electronically. Administrators enjoy access to records from the Tennessee State Department to aid them in school improvement planning via their wireless laptops. We have one part time instructional technologist who offers classes either at the schools or at the Staff Development Department's STaR Center. Instruction is provided via the internet and at the system's STaR Center for all the popular productivity tools. Technology staff development is provided to enable teachers to integrate technology into the curriculum.
Cleveland City Schools will
not tolerate discrimination or harassment from employee to employee, employee
to student, or student to student on the basis of race, color, national origin,
sex or disability. Anyone who
feels he/she has been grieved in regard to any of the
aforementioned categories may file a grievance with the Supervisor of
Instruction for Cleveland City Schools.
A Grievance Form may be obtained in the school office or the central
Administrative Office Building. A
grievance may also be filed with the U.S. Office of Civil Rights. For detailed information, refer to the
Cleveland City Schools Board of Education policies Discrimination/Harassment of
Employees, (5.500), Discrimination/Harassment of Students (6.304), and Student
Concerns, Complaints, and Grievances, (6.305). These policies may also be
accessed at our website at www.clevelandschools.org.