Heights Superintendent Holding Community Meetings This Week

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH — New Heights Schools Superintendent Elizabeth Kirby will hold two more informal community meetings this week. Both events will be held at elementary schools.

This week's meetings will be held at Noble Elementary School on Tuesday (from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.) and at Boulevard Elementary School on Wednesday (from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.). The meetings are open to all community members and attendees can come and go as they please.

"I am really looking forward to getting out in the community and meeting residents," Kirby told Patch last week. "It's incredibly important to me that I learn what our families wish to see for their children's education and future."

Kirby held two community meetings last week, at the Whole Foods in University Heights and at On the Rise Artisan Breads on Fairmount Boulevard.

Originally from the Shaker-Buckeye neighborhood, Kirby was previously the Chief of School Strategy and Planning for Chicago Public Schools. Her tenure with the Chicago Public Schools lasted more than two decades.

Kirby was a finalist for both the Shaker Heights Superintendent position and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Superintendent position. She was hired in CH-UH and began work in the district on August 1.

The first day of school in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Schools is August 19.