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Education News for 08-30-2012

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State Education News

  • Lax sex ed lets fallacies flourish (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Plenty of Americans thought Missouri Rep. Todd Akin was out of line, wrong and maybe even a little nutty when he said that a woman’s body has a way of preventing pregnancy in cases of “legitimate” rape...Read more...

  • Attendance scandal claims a casualty (Columbus Dispatch)

    • State Auditor Dave Yost warned Columbus schools leaders a month ago that contacting the district’s internal auditor as she investigates claims of data rigging could have serious consequences...Read more...

  • Hathorn predicts improvements in Youngstown schools (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • Although the release of the state report cards is weeks away, city schools Superintendent Connie Hathorn expects it to show improvement...Read more...

Local Education News

  • Bay Village school district sees health insurance premium hike (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • Health and prescription insurance premiums for school district employees will increase by more than 9 percent beginning...Read more...

  • Man challenges effort to roll back school tax (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Gene Hollins says he has friends on both sides of the ballot issue that aims to repeal part of a property tax for the Westerville school district...Read more...

  • Crawford County partnership links education, economic development (Mansfield News Journal)

    • Adding the word education isn't just a change in semantics for a local group...Read more...

  • Lakewood teachers to receive base pay raises (Newark Advocate)

    • For the first time since the 2009-10 school year, Lakewood teachers will receive a base pay raise...Read more...

  • Preschool programs return to Southwest Licking (Newark Advocate)

    • At this time last school year, the classrooms inside Southwest Licking's former kindergarten center were empty and quiet, but that no longer is the case...Read more...

  • Parents Threaten To Take School District Back To Court Over Busing Issues (WBNS)

    • Parents were threatening to take a school district back to court over whether their children should be bused to private schools...Read more...

  • Willoughby-Eastlake Schools to bring new technology into the classrooms (Willoughby News Herald)

    • The Willoughby-Eastlake School District is preparing to train 200 teachers as it moves to bring in newer technology in the classroom...Read more...

Education News for 08-29-2012

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  • New K-12 standards bring change to teacher colleges too (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • New “Common Core” curriculum standards coming to Ohio and 44 other states next year won’t just impact kids. Aspiring teachers – and the colleges that train them...Read more...

  • Columbus school board talks ethics in secret (Columbus Dispatch)

    • In the middle of a state investigation into data rigging, the Columbus school board spent more than three hours behind closed doors last night, talking about ethics and meeting with private attorneys...Read more...

  • Riverside School District receiving ODOT grant (Willoughby News Herald)

    • The Riverside Local School District has been awarded $491,000 from the Ohio Department of Transportation for several projects related to safety. The funds will go toward the district's action plan...Read more...

  • Success will continue to drive Youngstown district (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • City schools Superintendent Connie Hathorn says student success will continue to drive the school district. “... Everything we do, every program we offer, every decision we make” is based on student success...Read more...

Local Education News

  • Cleveland kindergartner assigned to nonexistent school gets apology (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • Cleveland public schools CEO Eric Gordon had to make a telephone call Tuesday that no school superintendent wants to make. That's a telephone call in which you tell a parent that you're sorry for instructing her young child...Read more...

  • Elementary-school students in Upper Arlington chat with astronaut aboard the International Space (Columbus Dispatch)

    • As she pondered her greatest fear of space travel, the astronaut bobbed up and down in zero gravity, her mass of curly hair a dark halo behind her head...Read more...

  • Bus tests help Northridge schools’ plan to cut routes (Columbus Dispatch)

    • If the bus had made it to his kids’ Licking County school in 30 minutes or less, Bill Jones would have been validated...Read more...

  • Young professionals to mentor high school students (Marion Star)

    • A group of young community-minded individuals preparing to help carry the community into the future is making plans to encourage the next generation to do the same...Read more...

  • Urbana Schools offers free breakfast to all students (Springfield News-Sun)

    • For the first time, all students at Urbana City Schools this year will be eligible to receive breakfast at no cost at the beginning of each school day...Read more...

Education News for 08-28-2012

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  • Vouchers meet special needs (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • Hundreds of Ohio students who have special needs are getting help paying for private schooling for the first time this school year…Read more...

  • Schools tap local farms for produce (Columbus Dispatch)

    • A growing number of schools in Ohio are buying broccoli and beef from farms down the road, boosting local economies and teaching children about the value of locally grown food…Read more...

  • Education, innovation keys to improving economy (Newark Advocate)

    • One of the country's most influential monetary policymakers said generations past have shown two clear markers for lifting Ohio…Read more...

  • TPS training zeroes in on class behavior (Toledo Blade)

    • Teacher training never stops, even in the summer, and Toledo Public Schools professional development has a twist this year…Read more...

  • Worthington Survey Shows 50 Percent Of Students Do Not Feel Respected (WBNS)

    • Worthington City Schools recently asked students, teachers, parents and administrators a few things about their schools' culture and climate. Two of the top issues included in the survey were drug use and bullying…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Brecksville-Broadview Heights school board, unions agree to new contracts (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • By a 4-1 vote, with Mark Dosen being the lone dissenter, the Brecksville-Broadview Heights school board voted to accept the new agreements with the Brecksville-Broadview Heights Education Association…Read more...

  • Hamilton school staff prepares for school year (Hamilton Journal-News)

    • The faculty and staff of Hamilton City Schools kicked off the school year Monday with an welcome back presentation from Superintendent Janet Baker…Read more...

  • Ready, get set, learn: Students back in school (Mansfield News Journal)

    • Mansfield City Schools, St. Peter's and Lexington schools return to the classroom today. St. Peter's fourth-grade teacher Julie Braumberger is excited to begin the year. On Monday she was readying her classroom, where she will have 23 students…Read more...

  • STEP brings teachers and businesses together (Newark Advocate)

    • When Melissa Felumlee's science students ask her, 'When will we ever have to use this?' she now has plenty of real life examples to share…Read more...

  • School officials juggle for Perrysburg growth (Toledo Blade)

    • Perrysburg schools' rising enrollment is "a drop in the bucket and pretty soon the bucket is full," Superintendent Thomas Hosler said a few days before the school returns to session…Read more...

  • Westerville, Olentangy Students May Spend Some Snow Days Online (WBNS)

    • Students in the Westerville and Olentangy school districts may spend a few snow days online this school year. Both districts said they have filed paperwork to hold classes online for up to three days a year…Read more...

Editorial

  • Prestige to match a noble profession (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • Teaching is a noble profession. What teachers do matters because they help shape the future. Political figures make speeches to that effect all the time…Read more...

Education News for 08-27-2012

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  • Scandal mars view of school officers (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Instructors at the Ohio School Resource Officers Association expect a few bruised egos when they start talking about the ethics involved with working around children...Read more...

  • State agency may request tighter reins on schools (Columbus Dispatch)

    • A statewide investigation into student-data tampering has prompted the Ohio Department of Education to consider becoming more of a watchdog. The department is likely to ask the legislature to give it the authority...Read more...

  • Web class on a snow day? Only for some (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Snow days will be free days for most Ohio students this school year, despite a state law that could turn some of them into days of online class. Only a few central Ohio school districts submitted the paperwork...Read more...

  • Toledo Public Schools teachers face new evaluation (Toledo Blade

    • Teacher measurement based in part on student performance will make a slow crawl into Toledo Public Schools this year. Through a mix of state law and the federal Race to the Top grant program...Read more...

Local Education News

  • Cleveland schools getting help from consultants with timetable for major improvement plan (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • A Seattle consulting company is helping the Cleveland school district map out a four-year schedule for rolling out the district's updated improvement plan...Read more...

  • District tried to buy silence of its auditor (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The Columbus City Schools lost two pages of the personnel file on its former internal auditor, who said this month she was fired in 2005 for trying to investigate data rigging...Read more...

  • Exchange students view area through a different lens (New Philadelphia Times)

    • Four foreign exchange students from France and Spain recently spent a month exploring area attractions. The students, Caroline Bellande of Paris, Caroline Dupaigne of Marseille...Read more...

  • Local school districts adapt plans to keep students safe (Newark Advocate)

    • Tom Suriano will never forget the day of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting. Although the incident happened more than 1,000 miles from Licking County, it changed everything for educators, he said...Read more...

  • What is failure, success? Schools don’t agree (Springfield News-Sun)

    • When it comes to grading scales, not all A’s and B’s are equal for students in Ohio. An examination by the Springfield News-Sun of area high schools found disparities in the percentage...Read more...

  • Several Perry Schools administrators given raises (Willoughby News Herald)

    • Three Perry School District administrators will earn higher pay after the school board approved raises at a recent board meeting. Superintendent Jack Thompson...Read more...

Education News for 08-24-2012

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  • Lockland fires superintendent (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • Lockland's school board voted Thursday night to fire its superintendent and her son – who also worked in the district – becoming the first Ohio district to push out its top administrator over the recent accusations of student records manipulation…Read more...

  • Superintendent, son fired in data-scrubbing scandal (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Lockland’s school board voted last night to fire its superintendent and her son, who also worked in the district, becoming the first Ohio district to push out its top administrator…Read more...

  • Report card delay won’t affect Canton City Schools (Canton Repository )

    • Ohio has delayed the scheduled Aug. 29 release of school report cards amid the state auditor’s investigation…Read more...

  • Schools offer additional data (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • Ohio’s annual report cards give only a “snapshot” on how high-achieving school districts are performing, complain officials from 10 Greater Cincinnati school systems who are banding together to produce their own reports…Read more...

  • Warrensville Heights school audit finds student fees money is missing (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • More than $13,000 in student fees disappeared from the Warrensville Heights school district in the 2009-10 school year, according to a state audit…Read more...

  • Toledo schools defend policy on data (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The Toledo school district continued to erroneously label as dropouts those who missed at least four weeks of school a year, even after someone at the state Department of Education told the district…Read more...

  • Engaging technology prepares schools for new state standards (Hamilton Journal-News)

    • Laptops, iPads and interactive white boards are replacing overhead projectors, textbooks and chalkboards in local classrooms…Read more...

  • Let’s Play the Ohio School Attendance Data Rigging Blame Game (State Impact Ohio )

    • The fingers of blame are pointing every which way as the investigation into whether Ohio schools are improperly manipulating student attendance data to make their state report cards look better unfolds…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Lorain recalls 17 teachers because of high enrollment, retirements in the district (Lorain Morning Journal)

    • A projected enrollment increase and retirements will return 17 teachers to classrooms in Lorain City Schools in an effort to keep classroom sizes low. Ninety-three teachers were notified they’d be out of a job in April…Read more...

  • New program provides netbooks for every Licking Valley High School student (Newark Advocate)

    • Amanda Yates isn't using any textbooks or worksheets in her classroom this year. In fact, the science teacher probably won't be using any paper at all…Read more...

  • Schools Hope Dress Code Changes Will Reduce Classroom Distractions (WBNS)

    • Several schools announced that they have changed the dress codes to prevent distractions in the classrooms…Read more...

  • Six months since the shooting, Chardon High students, staff look forward (Willoughby News Herald)

    • The Chardon High School campus was bustling with activity prior to the first day of school on Thursday. Sports teams gathered on lawns and fields as they concentrated on strategies and skills…Read more...

Education News for 08-23-2012

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  • Teach for America recruits get feet wet at local schools (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • As students across Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky return to school this month, some will be taught by a new breed of teacher: graduates of the first-ever class of Teach for America-Southwest Ohio...Read more...

  • College freshmen perceive world differently (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Incoming U.S. college students have never seen a paper airline ticket, like to watch television on almost anything but a television...Read more...

  • Inmates facing long wait for a GED (Columbus Dispatch)

    • About 12 percent of Ohio prisoners are enrolled in education programs, with more than 2,100 receiving a high-school equivalence certificate...Read more...

  • School districts eye shared services to save money (Newark Advocate)

    • Licking Heights and Southwest Licking local schools are in the process of narrowing down a list of possible shared services, with an eye on saving money. Treasurers from the two neighboring school districts have been meeting...Read more...

  • Report says state knew of TPS practice on attendance (Toledo Blade)

    • State education officials were told directly by Toledo Public Schools staff at least four years ago about the district's policy to withdraw and then re-enroll habitually truant students...Read more...

  • Ohio students test better on ACT than national average (Willoughby News Herald)

    • Ohio students have once again tested above the national average on the ACT, according to results released Wednesday. Ohio’s class of 2012 had a composite score of 21.8 in English...Read more...

Local Education News

    Copley administrator takes on two roles (Akron Beacon Journal)

    Copley High School’s new acting principal is a familiar face in the district. Aaron Sable will greet students in a return role when students begin classes today. On Tuesday, the Copley- Fairlawn Board of Education announced his hiring...Read more...

  • Private-school parents sue Northridge schools over busing (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The bus wasn’t going to pick up his kids for their first day of school on Monday, not until Bill Jones fought back. It took a meeting with a Licking County judge yesterday to keep the wheels rolling...Read more...

  • Carey board buys computer system (Findlay Courier)

    • Carey school board recently approved the purchase of a new wireless computer system for the district, according to The Progressor-Times newspaper...Read more...

  • Tentative pact with teachers reached (Findlay Courier)

    • North Baltimore school officials and its teachers' union have reached a tentative contract agreement, the two sides announced Wednesday. Details of the offer were not released...Read more...

  • Amherst schools blame glitch for mass callings (Lorain Morning Journal)

    • Amherst schools got off to a rocky second day of the school year yesterday when parents and guardians for the roughly 4,000 youths students...Read more...

  • Early readers get a boost from donors (Marion Star)

    • Bedtime stories can do more than get a child off to sleep. Reading them to your children may give them the power later in life to learn and earn...Read more...

  • Local officials urge governor to restore funds (Toledo Blade)

    • Elected officials, police and fire union leaders, and public agency representatives called on Gov. John Kasich on Wednesday to restore funds that were cut from local government, schools, and libraries as part of Ohio's two-year budget...Read more...

  • Cleveland: A critical school year ahead (WKYC)

    • The Cleveland Metropolitan School District is facing a critical start to the school year. The district is grappling with layoffs, shorter school days and a mega-levy on the ballot in November...Read more...

Editorial

  • Crescendo schools scandal shows why teachers need due process (Los Angeles Times)

    • The shameful cheating at the now-closed Crescendo charter schools shows why legislative attempts to strip teachers of due process before they can be fired...Read more...

  • Don’t Y’town residents realize clock’s ticking on city schools? (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • There’s a lot to chew on in the report by the Harwood Institute For Public Innovation on the community’s attitude toward the Youngstown City School District...Read more...