SCHOOL BUDGET CRISIS INVISIBLE ON SCHOOL, CITY WEBSITES: Last evening at a School Board meeting at Garrett Morgan, the Cleveland Municipal School District administration announced its second big round of budget cuts for the coming school year, including hundreds of additional teacher layoffs. Everyone from CEO Byrd-Bennett to the teachers union to the press to -- well, everyone -- agrees that this budget-cutting process is an historic crisis for the schools. Everyone knows it's the prelude to a big tax levy this November. Locally, this is the most important public issue of 2004.

Here's the School District's "News and Information" webpage, with current news releases. And here's the news release archive.

Please note that there is still not one document with information about the budget crisis, cuts, or levy posted.

Mayor Campbell is the only elected official with responsibility for the operations of the CMSD. Here is Mayor Campbell's archive of press releases, current through today. Please note that here, too, there's not one document posted with information about the budget crisis, cuts, or levy.

I guess Cleveland citizens are supposed to get our information about our public school system from Channel 19.