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Education News for 09-11-2012

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State Education News

  • Auditor: Probe not affected by report-card release (Associated Press)

    • COLUMBUS -- Releasing delayed state report cards on school progress won't hamper an investigation into potential tampering with school attendance numbers, Ohio's state auditor told education leaders Monday…Read more…

  • Ohio isn't alone when it comes to school funding mistakes: editorial (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • After the Great Recession hit, far too many states took out their carving knives and quickly slashed school funding.…Read more…

  • Ohio Board of Education wants school districts to go tobacco-free campus wide (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • CLEVELAND, Ohio -- There's no smoking inside schools housing grades kindergarten through 12 because a 6-year-old Ohio law prohibits indoor smoking in all public buildings and places of employment.…Read more…

  • Auditor: Release report cards (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Go ahead and publish the on-hold school report cards, state Auditor Dave Yost told state education officials yesterday.…Read more…

  • Auditor: Probe Not Affected By Report Card Release (WBNS)

    • Ohio's state auditor has advised education leaders that releasing delayed state report cards won't hamper his investigation into potential tampering with school attendance numbers.…Read more…

  • School Attendance Scandal Costing Taxpayers Thousands (WBNS)

    • Ohio’s Auditor said on Monday that his staff has spent 7,000 hours and more than $140,000 on an investigating into whether Columbus City Schools officials manipulated attendance records.…Read more…

Local Education News

  • Canton City Schools to follow state law on retaining students (Canton Repository)

    • CANTON — The Board of Education agreed Monday to change the district’s policy regarding retaining…Read more…

  • Wolf Creek Local Schools to seek grant (Marietta Times)

    • Wolf Creek Local Schools hopes to join with 19 other Ohio school districts for a shot at their share of millions of dollars in grant funding to help with dual enrollment and blended learning classes.…Read more…

  • Navy promotes STEM learning at Marion Tech (Marion Star)

    • The Navy is joining educators to encourage more students to seek STEM degrees. Vice Admiral James "Phil" Wisecup visited Marion Technical College recently…Read more…

  • School Districts Hope To Share Services, Save Money (WBNS)

    • Two school districts in Licking County are exploring ways to share services to save money. Licking Heights Local Schools and the Southwest Licking Local Schools’ boards of education…Read more…

Editorial

  • Lesson about secrecy still unlearned (Canton Repository)

    • The issue: Possible violations of open meetings law
    Our view: Private meetings make it look as if Columbus board is circling the wagons…Read more…

  • Catch Cheaters In Ohio Schools (Wheeling Intelligencer)

    • One hundred public school districts in Ohio are the focus of an investigation of falsified reports on student enrollment and attendance, it was reported during the weekend. That is approximately one-sixth of the districts in the state -…Read more…

Education News for 09-07-2012

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  • State might delay planned letter grades for schools (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Plans to create a new rating system for Ohio schools should be delayed until the investigation into whether districts altered attendance data…Read more...

    http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/09/07/state-might-delay-planned-letter-grades- for-schools.html

  • Project targeting school violence (Findlay Courier)

    • Findlay City Schools and seven Hancock County schools have begun a project to prevent one of the biggest threats to students today: school violence…Read more...

  • Nearly 40 Ohio School Districts Plan to Apply for $400-Million (State Impact Ohio)

    • Thirty-nine Ohio school districts, charter schools and other groups have said they plan to apply for some of the $400 million the federal U.S. Department of Education…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Columbus City Schools’ closed meetings questioned (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The Columbus Board of Education and other district officials have gone into super-secret mode since news broke in June that employees…Read more...

  • Teen sentenced to four years for bomb threat to Lima schools (Lima News)

    • Lima Schools Superintendent Jill Ackerman said Thursday the four-year sentence a teenager received in adult prison for calling in a false bomb threat…Read more...

  • Johnstown bus route timing set to begin (Newark Advocate)

    • Johnstown-Monroe Local Schools will begin timing the routes it uses to take students to private schools next week…Read more...

  • Teaching the teachers (People's Defender)

    • Agricultural education and science teachers from Ohio comprehensive high schools and career technical schools recently participated in the first-ever Ohio Ag-Biotechnology Academy…Read more...

Editorial

  • A privilege to help (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Any parent who has ever gone back-to-school shopping knows how picky kids can be: Shoes and outfits have to be just right. It’s all about looking good and fitting in…Read more...

  • District ready for state education reforms (This Week News)

    • Ohio's education system is experiencing an unprecedented number of proposed and soon to be implemented reforms. Our district welcomes tougher academic standards and higher expectations…Read more...

Education News for 09-06-2012

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  • First day of school busing accomplished quietly (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Busing, the remedy for decades of intentional segregation in the Columbus school district, began peacefully on Sept. 6, 1979…Read more...

  • Pickerington school district increases background checks (Columbus Dispatch)

    • A new policy that went into effect this school year requires volunteers who have unsupervised contact with Pickerington…Read more...

  • Schools money dispute still unresolved (Newark Advocate)

    • Licking Heights Local Schools still contends neighboring Reynoldsburg City Schools is withholding more than a million dollars in tax revenues from the district…Read more...

  • New policy allows Granville students to bring own technology to class (Newark Advocate)

    • Given the widespread use of iPhones, iPads and laptops among young people, it was only a matter of time…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Hartville, Lake schools settle annexation issue (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • The Lake High School complex would be annexed to Hartville as part of the settlement of a lawsuit the village filed against the school board…Read more...

  • Westerville levy repeal scrubbed from ballot (Columbus Dispatch)

    • A request to roll back a Westerville schools tax was tossed from the fall ballot yesterday by the Franklin County Board of Elections. All three board members at the meeting agreed to remove the issue after hearing legal arguments from both sides…Read more...

  • Utica High School students embrace iPads (Newark Advocate)

    • Students in Charles Smith's physical science classes won't just turn in paper lab reports anymore…Read more...

  • School districts seek grants to study shared services (Newark Advocate)

    • Both of the city's school districts on Tuesday approved separate resolutions agreeing to collaborate in an effort to reduce expenses…Read more...

  • Hands-on civics lesson (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

    • Nothing else is as important - next to being born or dying - as voting, explained Trumbull County Board of Elections…Read more...

Editorial

  • Thin blurred line (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • John Kasich is preparing to unveil a long-delayed new school funding model to address what he considers a key flaw: an imbalance in school spending…Read more...

  • School cheaters committed fraud (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

    • Ohio's public school cheating scandal - by administrators, not students or teachers - may be worse than previously thought…Read more...

Education News for 09-05-2012

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  • Temple creates enrichment program for home-school families (Lima News)

    • A new program at Temple Christian School will offer opportunities for home-schooled children that aren’t as easy to come by at home…Read more...

  • Hunger in the classroom a growing trend (WKYC)

    • A new study that included Ohio found that teachers are reporting many of their students are hungry…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Carroll works on energy savings (Dayton Daily News)

    • A recent energy conservation project is putting Carroll High School in the spotlight. The Catholic school is the first in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati…Read more...

  • Mansfield City Schools celebrate 'turnaround' (Mansfield News Journal)

    • The Mansfield City Schools Board of Education offered reflection and exhilaration…Read more...

  • Perrysburg Public Service Director Jon Eckel retires, rehired under new policy (Toledo Blade)

    • The public hearing on Perrysburg Public Service Director Jon Eckel's retirement was quick Tuesday, lasting only a few seconds, without any public outcry -- as quiet as the ensuing hearing about his rehiring…Read more...

  • Teen Behind Cryptic Video To Be Released, Bomb Squad Checks School (WBNS)

    • A teenager accused of making a video that other parents and students deemed threatening was in juvenile court…Read more...

Editorial

  • Ohio welcomes Teach for America (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • Just as Gov. John Kasich promised in his State of the State address in 2011, Teach for America graduates finally can teach in Ohio. So far, about 50 are assigned…Read more...

  • Ditching private schools (Los Angeles Times)

    • A study released last week by the libertarian Cato Institute showed that students are transferring in unexpectedly large numbers from private schools to charter schools…Read more...

Education News for 09-04-2012

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  • Reading law has holdouts (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Mike Johnson loathes the idea of holding students back. But next year, Johnson, the superintendent of Bexley schools…Read more...

  • Truancy rates in doubt (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The Cleveland school district wiped more than 1,700 students from its rolls in a single year for being chronic truants…Read more...

  • Early college credit not enough (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Bryan Zake could have coasted in his senior year in high school. But he chose to get a head start on college by earning almost a year’s worth of classes at the University of Akron…Read more...

  • Kids late, lost as busing blunders abound (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Some school buses have been late taking kids home, sometimes by a couple of hours. Children have been left at the wrong stop, far from home. Other buses never showed up…Read more...

  • Students able to make up calamity days at home (Dayton Daily News)

    • Fifteen area school districts in the Miami Valley, as well as a couple of private schools…Read more...

  • Law more stringent on elementary readers (Hamilton Journal-News)

    • The percentage of third graders held held from fourth grade could quadruple in some local school districts…Read more...

  • Extra-curriculars keep students engaged (Marion Star)

    • A national report claims to shed some light on why students are skipping school. Local school officials say they hear a variety of reasons as they try different ways to encourage students to attend…Read more...

  • Local schools in attendance probe (Marion Star)

    • Government inspectors have been poring over student attendance records in school buildings across the state…Read more...

  • Area districts waiting out state report card delay (Middletown Journal)

    • The Ohio Board of Education’s delay in posting the state report cards has drawn mixed reactions from Middletown-area school districts. Some don’t mind the wait, while others would have preferred to be celebrating by now…Read more...

  • Ohio sports fees are growing trend, cutting in to athletics programs (Newark Advocate)

    • For an increasing number of Ohio families, students playing sports also means parents paying for sports. Participation fees, which can run into hundreds of dollars…Read more...

  • Schools prepare for third-grade reading guarantee (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • A law that takes full effect in the 2013-14 school year requires third-graders who aren’t reading at grade level to be held back another year…Read more...

  • Local Education News
    • Teach For America teachers start school year in local charter schools (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

      • The Village Prep charter school had openings for nine teachers this school year…Read more...

    • Football-concussion risk for middle-schoolers prompts protective moves (Columbus Dispatch)

      • Connor Laufenberg was a linebacker for his middle-school football team last fall when he took a hit that left him dizzy…Read more...

    • District let girl stay home for six weeks (Columbus Dispatch)

      • When Stacy Cox read her daughter’s report card from Columbus City Schools’ Marion- Franklin High School, it showed almost perfect attendance…Read more...

    • $2M deficit expect for Monroe schools at end of school year (Middletown Journal)

      • Monroe Local Schools will finish with a $2 million operating deficit at the end of the school year if no new revenue is brought into the district, according to treasurer Holly Cahall…Read more...

    • Engineering course offered at Franklin High School (Middletown Journal)

      • For the first time, the Franklin school district is offering a nationally recognized pre- engineering program at the high school…Read more...

    • Officer out of Monroe schools, again (Middletown Journal)

      • Monroe School District is once again without a school resource officer. City Council decided to reinstate a school resource officer for the first two weeks…Read more...

    • Report card scores discussed at PCSD (Portsmouth Daily Times)

      • Parents, community members, teachers, and school administrators gathered Wednesday morning for the Portsmouth City School District…Read more...

    • Ursuline leads Valley schools with 9 AP courses (Youngstown Vindicator)

      • Twelve seniors sit in a third-floor classroom at Ursuline High School discussing literature…Read more...

    • Youngstown School District | Defining partnerships (Youngstown Vindicator)

      • The city school district is trimming its large list of partnerships, bringing such support more in line with the needs of students…Read more...

  • Editorial
    • Drawing up a route to better Cleveland schools (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

      • The Cleveland School District seems to know what it wants to be in the near future -- an effective system where more students attend…Read more...

    • Delaying state school district report cards is a necessity (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

      • The Ohio Board of Education wisely and unanimously decided recently to delay the release of critically important school district report cards…Read more...

    • Wrong watchdog )Columbus Dispatch)

      • The Ohio Department of Education’s request for more authority to monitor and investigate school districts data collection is premature…Read more...

    • Former school head should repay (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

      • ''I just didn't know how else to do it,'' former Ohio state school Superintendent Stan Heffner told investigators looking into the scandal that forced him to resign earlier this summer…Read more...

    • Education News for 08-31-2012

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    • Program eyes link between students, Chillicothe community (Chillicothe Gazette

      • Chillicothe City Schools is enlisting the help of community members this fall to bolster student performance at Mount Logan and Tiffin elementary schools…Read more...

    • High-calorie drinks limited in schools (Dayton Daily News)

      • Beverage companies decreased drink calories offered in schools by 90 percent between 2004 and 2010, according to a recent study, a strategy industry and school officials…Read more...

    Local Education News

    • Stow school board member sues peers, district treasurer (Akron Beacon Journal)

      • A Stow-Munroe Falls Board of Education member has sued the rest of the board and the district’s treasurer…Read more...

    • Perry classroom addresses needs of children with autism (Canton Repository)

      • Elementary school is all about exploration. It’s about discovering the world and its shapes, colors, sounds and numbers…Read more...

    • Being bullied is no joke, students told (Findlay Courier)

      • The message was clear: Something you may find funny may forever damage another person's view of themselves…Read more...

    Editorial

    • Planned budget cuts harm at-risk youth (Cincinnati Enquirer)

      • There is a lot of talk in our nation’s capital about the pending sequestration of nondefense discretionary programs…Read more...