Charter founder will expand presence in Cleveland

From The Cleveland Plain Dealer: The co-founder of a successful Cleveland charter school will try to duplicate its no-nonsense formula throughout Northeast Ohio. Marshall Emerson III helped launch Entrepreneurship Preparatory School, or E Prep, in 2006. He recently resigned as its head of school to start I Can Schools with Jason Stragand, E Prep's former curriculum chief. The nonprofit charter management company will open two elementary schools this fall in Cleveland. It has leased the closed St. John Cantius School and the soon-to-be-closed St. John Nepomucene School.