The Coalition is a strategic alliance composed of the superintendents and teachers’ union presidents from Ohio’s eight largest urban school districts – Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo and Youngstown.

The Coalition is founded on the principle that a high-performance public education system is essential to the civic and economic health of Ohio’s cities. The Ohio 8 Coalition’s mission is to work with policy makers to improve academic performance and close the achievement gap for urban children throughout Ohio.

October 11, 2007 -- Ohio 8 Coalition releases new data showing academic achievement among Ohio's big-city districts outpaces the state as a whole at the Second Summit on Urban Education in Columbus

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