CLEVELAND — As teachers and staff brace for layoff notices, News 5 Investigators uncovered the Cleveland Metropolitan School District spent $272,000 on an HR consultant to create a staffing plan as part of its Building Brighter Futures consolidation plan.
The contract, which News Investigators obtained through a public records request, said the district paid coLeague, which is owned by former CMSD Chief Talent Officer Lora Cover, to “identify necessary reductions” and “determine positions to be frozen, reclassified or repurposed.”
Cover will also “Serve as interim leader of the Talent Department” because the district’s “Head of Talent” left the district as consolidation efforts got underway, according to the contract…