Arielle Kass

1 week ago | signalakron.org | Arielle Kass

Why we wrote this article: After the Akron Board of Education decided to give Superintendent Michael Robinson $200,000 to resign, we checked in with board members and outside experts to see if they thought it was a good use of taxpayer money. Ousted Akron Public Schools’ Superintendent Michael Robinson is walking away from the district with $200,000 following his April 28 resignation.

2 weeks ago | signalakron.org | Andrew Keiper |Arielle Kass

Mary Outley isn’t in the business of pointing fingers or assigning blame for Akron Public Schools’ recent troubles. Instead, the district’s new superintendent is focused on collaboration. Outley’s first task? Tuesday’s pre-scheduled internal leadership retreat with top administrators. “We want to move forward,” Outley, a graduate of Buchtel High School, said late Monday night.

2 weeks ago | signalakron.org | Arielle Kass

Mary Outley, then the interim superintendent of Akron Public Schools, spent part of Monday in the Litchfield Community Learning Center classroom of her sorority sister, Morgan Greene. By evening, they switched roles. Outley sat with the Akron Board of Education in her first full meeting as the school district’s two-time, interim leader. And Greene supported her by donning red in honor of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

3 weeks ago | signalakron.org | Arielle Kass

Mark Roberts raised more than three times his Kickstarter to print The Keeyp in 2022, a board game where players build a dungeon and escape from it. The Fairlawn resident has printed several 600-copy batches since that initial run and recently took steps to make sure The Keeyp was permanently available. Roberts’ efforts are now on hold — his printer is based in China, and with U.S. tariffs on that country increasing production costs, he no longer knows what the price of printing might be.

3 weeks ago | signalakron.org | Arielle Kass

Rita Dove was a majorette at Buchtel High School, so the Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. poet laureate knows football. She’s a fan of basketball. Baseball? Well, she’s watched “A League of Their Own.”“I threw out a ball at a softball game once, which didn’t go well,” Dove said with a laugh.