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Warren City Schools, in partnership with Inspiring Minds, has been awarded a $125,000 grant to support remote learning among students in grades 7-12.

The award, announced by Philanthropy Ohio and the Ohio Department of Education on Monday, is being provided through the Collaborative Fund for Educating Remotely and Transforming Schools (the Collaborative Fund).

The Warren City Schools and Inspiring Minds project are among 29 being funded through this second round of awards. The focus of the project is to support students academically, socially and emotionally by building strengths as it relates to careers, leadership development and community service.

“The Warren City Schools has had a long-standing relationship with Inspiring Minds,” said Associate Superintendent Wendy Hartzell. “This grant allows us to expand our partnership and opportunities for students in these unique learning environments.”

The students will receive support through Inspiring Minds during their remote learning days. Students will complete work and receive academic assistance as needed with adult support and supervision.

Through this collaboration, Warren City Schools and Inspiring Minds staff will evaluate which supports are demonstrating to be most effective for students involved in the program and how those supports may be replicated for students not directly involved.

The Warren City School District will continue with full online/remote learning for all PK-12 students Monday, Jan. 4 through, at minimum, Friday, Jan. 8, due to elevated COVID-19 transmission numbers across the City of Warren and Trumbull County overall.

The district will re-evaluate this decision based upon the most current health information provided to us closer to Wednesday, Jan. 6, to determine whether students will return to hybrid learning the following week.

“While our goal is to always provide in-person learning, the elevated number of COVID-19 cases across the state, county and our city is affecting our schools’ abilities to maintain consistent and stable in-person learning and effective operations,” said Superintendent Steve Chiaro.

Mr. Chiaro said the district will continue to work closely with the Trumbull County and Warren City Health Departments monitoring health conditions on a week-by-week basis to determine when the district will be able to return to in-person instruction.

The district shifted all students to online/remote learning Nov. 23 due to increasing numbers of students and staff testing positive with COVID-19, related quarantines and pending COVID-19 test results across the district the City of Warren and Trumbull County overall.

On Nov. 24, the Trumbull County Board of Health issued a stay-at-home advisory asking all Trumbull County schools to switch to remote learning.

On Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2020, the Trumbull County Health Commissioners issued an advisory for all residents to stay at home to the greatest extent possible due to the rapid rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the county.

Residents are advised to only leave home to go to work or school )depending upon the status of the institution), or for essential needs.

Please refer to the information provided from Warren City Schools Superintendent Steve Chiaro and Warren City Deputy Health Commissioner John May:

COVID-19 Stay-At-Home Health Advisory

Mercy Health Open Access Locations

The Warren City School District is moving all K-12 students to online/remote learning effective Monday, Nov. 23 through Dec. 18 – the end of the first semester, at minimum – due to increasing numbers of students and staff testing positive with COVID-19, related quarantines and pending COVID-19 test results across the district, the City of Warren and Trumbull County overall.

Should health conditions improve in our area, we anticipate returning to hybrid instruction as early as Monday, Jan. 4.

More information can be found HERE.

The Warren City School District has revised the Lunch Delivery Schedule.The new schedule starts Monday, Nov. 23. Times at all school buildings have been extended and hours are now Noon to 1 p.m. Times at other sites remain unchanged.

Click this link for the complete Lunch Delivery Schedule.

The Warren City School District has received notification that one McGuffey and one Warren G. Harding staff member have tested positive for COVID-19. While we must protect the privacy of the employees involved, we believe it is best to communicate transparently with you so you can make well-informed decisions for your family. We believe these cases to be the result of high transmission and community spread.

Contact tracing has taken place. No known individuals have been determined to be a contact by definition. However, if the school district receives additional or changing information, we will continue to review this situation and any individuals impacted will immediately be contacted by both a Warren City Schools administrator and a representative from the Warren City Health Department.

There is nothing more important to Warren City Schools than the safety and health of our
students, our staff and their families.

Please read Superintendent Steve Chiaro’s Full Letter HERE. 

The Warren City School District has received notification that one McGuffey and two Warren G. Harding staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. While we must protect the privacy of the employees involved, we believe it is best to communicate transparently with you so you can make well-informed decisions for your family. We do not believe these cases to be related to one another but rather the result of high transmission and community spread.
Contact tracing is taking place and will continue.

To read Superintendent Steve Chiaro’s complete letter to students, families and community members, click HERE.

Students in the Warren City School District’s four PK-8 Schools are benefitting from food vouchers made available to them through a partnership between the district and Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership.

With funding from the United Fresh Start Foundation, TNP and WCSD are distributing the vouchers to students and are encouraging them to go to designated convenience stores throughout Warren to exchange them for a fresh, healthy snack.

Remote and in-class students are eligible to participate. Students have 30 days from when the vouchers are issued to use them. Vouchers are nontransferable and the stores will accept them from the named students only.

For more information, contact Christian Bennett at christian@tnpwarren.org or Matt Martin at matt@tnpwarren.org.

Warren City School District has placed “book sharing” boxes throughout the city, on previous elementary school sites, and filled them with new and gently used books to encourage and ignite a citywide love for reading.

Our “Little Neighborhood Libraries” project was inspired, in part, by the national “Little Free Library” initiative.

“During this uncertain time, it is even more important for families to actively participate in reading experiences with their children,” said Karin Kilpatrick, a WCSD Title I Family Outreach Coordinator.

“The circumstances of the pandemic may have limited our exposure to school and/or libraries, but we are determined to offer our families opportunities to share books and literacy activities in order to accelerate our students’ reading achievements. Good reading is the key to a successful future for all of us.”

Bob Lewis, a WCSD carpenter, repaired several old boxes formerly used by the Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership, which, in collaboration with Karin Kilpatrick, established a Little Library program in the city several years ago. The district has now taken over ownership/maintenance of the Little Libraries that are on school properties and added others. Kilpatrick, along with Kevin Stringer, a WCSD Title I Parent/Family Engagement Coordinator, help maintain the libraries by making sure they are filled with books for the community to access.

Lewis crafted new boxes to accommodate additional books so the program could be expanded to serve more families.

You can find a WCSD Little Neighborhood Library on one of these sites:

• DEVON SCHOOL SITE: 833 Central Parkway SE
• DICKEY AVENUE SCHOOL SITE: Dickey Avenue near Ward Street
• EMERSON SCHOOL SITE: Corner of Drexel Avenue NW and Moncrest Drive NW
• GARFIELD SCHOOL SITE: Woodland Street NW near Perkinswood Blvd. NE
• HORACE MANN SCHOOL SITE: York Ave near Jackson Street
• LAIRD AVENUE SCHOOL SITE: Bonnie Brae near Grandview Street
• ROOSEVELT SCHOOL SITE: Roosevelt Ave near the Community Garden Sign (not as pictured)
• McKINLEY SCHOOL SITE: Hollywood NE between Mazda and Elm Road
• SECREST SCHOOL SITE: Bennett Street near Northwest Blvd. 

How it works:

• Take a walk, or a ride, to your Little Neighborhood Library.
• Browse through the books and other materials.
• Find something you like? Take it home with you.
• Finished? Return the books and materials … please be neat and keep boxes tidy!

We ask that you help us keep the library and the materials in good order.

• You may donate quality, gently used books to your Little Neighborhood Library in order to keep a lively collection and offer a variety of choices to readers.
• Donated books should be clean, in good repair and cover appropriate topics and language for a community library collection.

For more information, please contact Karin Kilpatrick at 330-841-2321 ext. 7211.