Three years ago, Tanisha Salary went out of her way to choose Cleveland schools for her son CJ.
The Salary family lives in Euclid, which is not part of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD). CJ attended a combination of Euclid City Schools and Catholic schools for elementary school. When it came time to pick a high school, the different options offered at CMSD, like MC2STEM High School, the specialized science and technology high school CJ currently attends, were really attractive to the family.
“We chose CMSD specifically for the STEM school,” Christopher Salary, CJ’s father, told Signal Cleveland. “Because he showed an interest [and] it fit directly for the type of learning he was going to do.”…