Howard is changing, and it's changing pretty rapidly."
The Howard School was poised just two years ago to be Hamilton County’s great education turnaround story.
A documentary film came out charting the school’s path from the threat of state takeover to a 20 percent jump in its graduate rate. There was a rallying cry from the community to get behind the almost all-black, all-poor inner-city school.
But some students, community members and alumni say that momentum is dead.
Paul Smith, who headed Howard for six years, left the school system to work for city government, and some say the new principal hasn’t rallied the community as Smith did.