Grant of $596,770 will help develop Cincinnati math and science high school

A partnership including the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Public Schools was awarded a $596,770 planning grant to create an innovative high school. The plan is to develop an existing high school, Hughes Center, into a new school designed to promote excellence in the highly sought skill areas known as STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The grant will help fund a collaboration coordinated by Cincinnati education advocacy group Strive and involving CPS, UC, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College and others. The high school concept builds on a $500,000 state grant awarded in February to create a STEM elementary school in CPS, which will begin operating next school year.
 
The state grants also complement a $20 million, five-year grant from the GE Foundation to improve mathematics and science instruction throughout the Cincinnati school district. Several colleges within UC will "work together to develop cutting-edge opportunities for high school students as well as for our UC students studying to be teachers," says Lawrence J. Johnson, dean of U.C.'s College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services. Other partners in the plan include the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers,  GE Aviation, Procter & Gamble Co., Duke Energy, Toyota, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, the Cincinnati Museum Center, and the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens.

Writer: David Holthaus
Source: Dawn Fuller, University of Cincinnati