Cincinnati Enquirer / March 24, 2013
The spotlight has been shining on Oyler School recently.
Last fall, the school moved back into its 82-year-old building at 2121 Hatmaker St. in Lower Price Hill after $21 million of much-needed renovations.
Education leaders across the country have come to check out the school’s Community Learning Center, which offers school programs and social services for students and has become a hub for the neighborhood’s mostly low-income urban Appalachian community.
Oyler is one of 34 Community Learning Centers in Cincinnati Public Schools, though it has garnered the most attention.
American Public Media’s radio show “Marketplace” is running a yearlong series, “One School, One Year,” following the school’s approach to tackling poverty as well as test scores. Officials in New York have announced replicating the CPS model in schools statewide, based largely on their visits to Oyler.
The attention has been focused on how the school has transformed to address issues of the community beyond the three Rs.