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IUE supports publicly funded, voluntary early learning experiences for virtually all pre-kindergarden children.
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IUE will help design and encourage enactment of an improved system of state funding of education and other vital needs.
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IUE supports charter schools because they can provide superior education at modest cost, often to children from families that lack
an educated adult, and can by example help improve traditional, district-managed schools.
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Hugh Calkins info@iuefoundation.org
Chairman
Hugh Calkins, a graduate of Harvard College, received his LLB degree from Harvard Law School in 1949, spent a year as a law clerk to Judge Learned Hand and also to Justice Felix Frankfurter, and then joined the Cleveland office of the national and international law firm known today as Jones Day.
In 1969 he was Deputy Staff Director of President Eisenhower’s Commission on National Goals.
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Upon returning
to Cleveland, he founded a non-profit whose mission was to improve education in Cleveland schools.
He then ran for, and was subsequently elected to, the Cleveland Board of Education. After serving one four-year tern, in which he devoted particular attention to the financing of Cleveland public schools, he was defeated in reelection. Soon thereafter, he turned his attention to Harvard University, where he served for two years as a member of the alumni-elected Board of Overseers, and for 15 years as a member of the smaller body which, along with the president and
treasurer, was responsible for managing the University. He played an active role in assisting the University to recover its stability after the student riots in 1969. Upon completion of his activities with Harvard, he turned his attention to his field of law, taxation. He became chair of the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association and an active member of the American Law Institute.
As the time fixed by his firm for lawyer retirement neared, he decided that for his next career he would return to the unfinished business of improving the education of children and youth in Cleveland. To learn at first hand what was occurring in Cleveland classrooms, he obtained a teaching certificate and taught for the four year duration of the certificate, first as a substitute in elementary schools, and then as a full time teacher of sixth grade in a middle school. During these years his children created and he managed Initiatives in Urban Education Foundation.
Its initial strategy was to support pilot classroom projects, such as cooperative education, a word-attack-based reading program, and a writing course called classroom publishing. When it became clear that the Cleveland district lacked the resources to train teachers to use such methods, the attention of IUE turned to early childhood. The organization initiated a program of home visits and center activities for mothers of children 0 to three. This program was replicated by the Early Childhood Initiative, which the state of Ohio, Cuyahoga County and a dozen Cleveland foundations, including IUE, collaborated on.
When he was a Cleveland School Board member, Calkins acquired an understanding or state and federal funding of public schools. He maintained his familiarity with that subject during the intervening decades.
Currently, improving public finance in Ohio, promoting school readiness for children 0 to 5, and promoting charter schools are the three topics on which Calkins and IUE are focusing.
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