Councilman Conwell, Cleveland Schools Parent Activist Call Schools CEO Peter Raskind Racist For Slating School Closings Only In Black Community
Cleveland Ward 9 Councilman Kevin Conwell Plain Dealer Newspaper photo of Cleveland Schools CEO Peter Raskind Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Former Cleveland Schools CEO Dr. Eugene Sanders By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor of the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog. Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com(www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com) A Cleveland City Councilman and Cleveland schools parent activist are calling schools CEO Peter Raskind racist and anti-student for asking the Cleveland School Board to close seven schools, all on the majority Black East Side of the largely Black city. And Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, who controls the city schools and appoints his own school board pursuant to state law, should be ashamed of himself for letting an arrogant outsider who is White and male with no superintendent's license or other certification in education dictate what is best for the predominantly Black school children, activists and other community leaders say. Raskind, they say, is ig