Monday is the first day of a new school year for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

Thursday, I sat down one-on-one with CEO Dr. Warren Morgan. The district recently achieved an overall 3 out of 5 stars on the latest state report card — a first for CMSD.

"We were the only of the large urban districts here in the state to receive that designation. So we’re really proud of it. A lot that— one is the years of work that we've been doing to improve the system. So when we think about the Cleveland Plan and all the work, all of that's like really coming to a head," Dr. Morgan said. "But we've also been really intentional about really thinking about having a unified, high quality curriculum in every school. That's work we've been doing over the past year, and really working on the inten

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