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Education News for 02-11-2013

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State Education News

  • Attendance investigation to cite errors (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • Officials with the Cincinnati and Winton Woods school districts say they will be dinged for improper procedures and other errors, including missing documents and clerical issues …Read more...

  • GED test for high school equivalency degree will be more expensive and harder in 2014 (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • Adults without high school diplomas will find it harder and more expensive to earn their equivalency degrees next year, another obstacle for people…Read more...

  • Auditor’s report on ‘scrubbing’ due today (Columbus Dispatch)

    • When state Auditor Dave Yost releases results today of his statewide investigation into whether schools “scrubbed” students from their books, the list of rule-breakers will be short…Read more...

  • New reading requirements could cost schools millions (Hamilton Journal-News)

    • It could potentially cost Miami Valley school districts millions of dollars annually to meet the requirements of the new state Third Grade Reading Guarantee…Read more...

  • Stakes high for new teacher evaluation system (Hamilton Journal-News)

    • School districts across Ohio are preparing to implement the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System next school year, which will rate teachers based on how well their students learn…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Project Excellence accepting nominations of outstanding Warren County teachers (Dayton Daily News)

    • The Area Progress Council’s Project Excellence program is seeking teacher nominations as it enters its 26th year of honoring public educators in Warren County…Read more...

  • Digital learning put on display (Marion Star)

    • Marion Harding High School students and teachers put digital learning on display Wednesday as part of the second national Digital Learning Day…Read more...

  • Local Catholic high schools see enrollment increases (Middletown Journal)

    • Two local Catholic high schools are bucking the trend of falling enrollment at schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati…Read more...

  • Schools, parents team up to fight pill abuse (Springfield News-Sun)

    • Nearly one in every five high school students in Clark County has taken medications not prescribed to them, a local health district survey found…Read more...

  • Area high school teachers tackle technology (Willoughby News Herald)

    • Technology evolves so quickly that it can be hard enough for the average consumer to keep up…Read more...

Editorial

  • Uncertain schools (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • An irony confronting school officials across Ohio is that a Statehouse that requires them to project district budget plans five years into the future itself shuffles the deck once or twice every two years…Read more...

  • Board game (Toledo Blade)

    • The Toledo Board of Education faces a long, tough, urgent agenda that would tax the skills of a highly effective governing body…Read more...

Education News for 02-08-2013

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  • State school board goes Downtown for meeting after leader’s Facebook post (Columbus Dispatch)

    • With Ohio school board President Debe Terhar expected to make her first public appearance since last month’s uproar over her Adolf Hitler Facebook post, the state Board of Education…Read more...

  • Kasich hasn't seen numbers for own school funding plan (Columbus Dispatch)

    • A week after rolling out a sweeping revamp of how Ohio funds schools, Gov. John Kasich said he still has not seen any material detailing how much state money each of Ohio’s 612 school districts would receive under his plan…Read more...

  • Property values present challenge on whether Kasich budget delivers to schools what it promises (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The jury is still out on the Kasich administration’s rationale that school districts with reduced property values would get more money under his budget, while those where property values rose would get no new money…Read more...

  • Kasich's funding plans draw complaints from school leaders (Columbus Dispatch)

    • A week ago, Bob Caldwell was among more than a dozen school superintendents praising Gov. John Kasich’s education plan. The longtime leader of Wolf Creek Local School District in southeastern Ohio…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Akron Public Schools panel negotiates budget cuts (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • The Akron Public Schools Finance Committee convened Thursday with the goal of minimizing the effect of this year’s $16 million budget shortfall and a projected $9.5 million negative cash…Read more...

  • State schools budget showers Shawnee, leaves others cold (Lima News)

    • Shawnee schools could get a decent pot of money from the state, but Superintendent Paul Nardini says Gov. John Kasich’s proposed school funding plan is flawed…Read more...

  • Hundreds of Strongsville teachers protest, threaten strike at Feb. 7 school board (Sun Newspapers)

    • Citing an "appalling level of disrespect" from the Strongsville City Schools Board of Education in ongoing contract negotiations, more than 350 teachers swarmed the board's Feb. 7 work session…Read more...

  • Mentor Schools’ issue improperly filed for May 7 ballot (Willoughby News Herald)

    • A request by Mentor Schools to place a 10-year, estimated 8.84-mill renewal levy on the May 7 ballot could be rejected next week when the four-member Lake County Elections Board meets to certify issues for the special election…Read more...

  • Teacher says training was beneficial (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • One teacher who attended training that focused on preparing educators for an active- shooter scenario says the information was worth-while and he recommends it for others…Read more...

Editorial

  • Formula for confusion (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • With the release of the funding estimates for school districts this week, it looks less and less like John Kasich finally has solved Ohio’s school-funding enigma…Read more...

  • Kasich's school funding plan needs a lot of work (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • When Ohio Gov. John Kasich sketched out his new two-year school funding formula last week, he was characteristically blunt…Read more...

Education News for 02-07-2013

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  • Rich, growing school districts do well under governor’s funding proposal (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • Gov. John Kasich’s office rolled out spreadsheets Wednesday showing how much money school districts will receive under his new funding formula…Read more...

  • Plan means no funding growth for most schools (Chillicothe Gazette)

    • Gov. John Kasich’s school funding plan dramatically changes the state funding formula for districts, but most Ohio schools would see no new money under the proposal…Read more...

  • Kasich details educational funding (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • Most Southwest Ohio school districts were breathing sighs of relief Wednesday after Gov. John Kasich’s office released detailed funding amounts for each district…Read more...

  • Susan Zelman hired by the Ohio Department of Education to work on school funding (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • Susan Zelman, who was state superintendent for 10 years, has returned to the Ohio Department of Education to work with schools on funding issues…Read more...

  • Most schools to get no additional funds in Kasich plan (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Sixty percent of Ohio school districts — including all those in Perry County, where the state’s long-running school-funding lawsuit originated — would get no additional state money in the next two years under Gov. John Kasich’s education plan…Read more...

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  • Kasich funding formula favors suburban schools; TPS, other urban districts, mostly flat under (Toledo Blade)

    • Preliminary breakdowns of how Gov. John Kasich’s new school-funding formula will affect school districts show that growing, relatively wealthier suburban districts in metro Toledo will receive significant increases…Read more...

Local Education News

  • CPS evaluation policy remains unresolved (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • After months of discussion and several heated meetings with representatives from the teachers’ union, Cincinnati’s school board Monday voted 4-3 to delay a vote on a new controversial policy to evaluate its roughly 2,000 teachers.…Read more...

  • Northeast Ohio schools get first look at what new state funding formula may mean to them (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • School officials across Ohio have gotten their first peek at how much state money they might get over the next two years from Gov. John Kasich's proposed funding formula…Read more...

  • Second lawsuit filed in data-rigging case (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Another parent has sued several current and former Columbus school district leaders, saying the district’s “pattern of corrupt activity” has hurt his daughter…Read more...

  • Lakota maintains high return on investment (Hamilton Journal-News)

    • An independent compensation study reveals the Lakota school district is spending less and getting more…Read more...

  • Online Teacher Fired For Paying Former Student To Teach Class, Grade (WBNS)

    • The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, or ECOT, isn’t a traditional public school, but like all public schools, classes are supposed to be taught by licensed teachers.Read more...

  • Liberty hires county's treasurer services (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • The school board has approved using staff at the Trumbull County Educational Service Center as the district’s interim treasurer for the remainder of the school year…Read more...

  • Boardman, Lordstown get largest increases in Kasich’s budget plan (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • While no Mahoning Valley school districts would get less state money in Gov. John Kasich’s proposed biennium budget, most wouldn’t get any more either…Read more...

Editorial

  • School budget (Findlay Courier)

    • It will take some serious number-crunching and time before we know if Gov. John Kasich's school funding formula is any better than the current one, which was ruled unconstitutional in 1997…Read more...

  • Gov. Kasich’s budget (Toledo Blade)

    • The state budget that Gov. John Kasich proposed on Monday reflects a healthier Ohio economy than the one his first, austere spending plan responded to two years ago…Read more...

  • Kasich plan for schools sounds good (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

    • Reports last week that Gov. John Kasich wants to provide additional state help to school districts with meager property tax bases no doubt was received happily by some area education…Read more...

Education News for 02-06-2013

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  • Fewer Ohio students getting free lunches (Columbus Dispatch)

    • For the first time in six years, the number of Ohio students qualifying for free or reduced- price lunches has dropped. Still, a celebration seems premature…Read more...

  • Funding data for Kasich school plan not ready yet (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Ohioans still can’t see how their tax dollars will be divided among local school districts under Gov. John Kasich’s school-funding plan…Read more...

  • State education official fired after child porn found on computer (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The Ohio Department of Education said it fired its chief operating officer after learning he was under investigation for possessing child pornography and then finding such images on his work computer…Read more...

  • Be on your best behavior, schools chiefs told (Columbus Dispatch)

    • More than 500 school leaders heard Gov. John Kasich reveal his new school budget and reform plan at a meeting in the Polaris Hilton Hotel last week…Read more...

Local Education News

  • School model catches on in New York (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • About two years ago, a steady stream of out-of-town educators – school leaders, nonprofit agencies, education groups – started visiting Cincinnati…Read more...

  • Berea High School students demonstrate the dangers of distractions when driving (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • Berea High classmates Caleb Samol and Justin Harris discovered their reflexes suffered while trying to hit a flashing target…Read more...

  • Figure in Columbus schools data-rigging to resign (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The man whose name was uttered again and again in connection with Columbus schools’ student-data scandal — Steve Tankovich — resigned yesterday…Read more...

  • TRECA part of shared service, resource center (Marion Star)

    • The boards of directors of the Tri-Rivers Education Computer Association and Northwest Ohio Computer Association recently authorized creation of a collaborative shared service and resource center…Read more...

  • College rules the day at Oyler School (Marketplace)

    • There’s a parade of cute coming down the hallway -- a gaggle of first graders, walking single file, each one wearing a construction paper crown with a Penn State…Read more...

  • ABLE testing procedure changes upcoming (Portsmouth Daily Times)

    • Scioto County ABLE (Adult Basic Learning Exam), announced this week that the current version of the GED test will expire at the end of 2013…Read more...

Education News for 02-05-2013

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  • Ohio offers school funding details (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • COLUMBUS: Gov. John Kasich on Monday released the first details of his proposed budget for schools, and the picture remains as murky as it did last week when he unveiled some of his general ideas to school officials…Read more…

  • IN OUR SCHOOLS: Budget overhauls educational funding (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • K-12 education is one of the biggest priorities in Gov. John Kasich’s $63 billion biennial budget. It’s the second-largest chunk, accounting for almost a quarter of spending. It’s one of only a few categories that saw an increase...Read more…

  • Local educators wait for funding details (Springfield News-Sun)

    • Local superintendents say they remain optimistic as new details of Gov. John Kasich’s education plan emerge but need their individual district’s funding projections — expected later this week — before making final determinations about the changes...Read more…

Local Education News

  • Pickaway County sheriff, schools mapping common response plan (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The Pickaway County sheriff’s office and the county’s school superintendents are developing a common playbook for responding to classroom emergencies...Read more…

  • Logan County school bus rolls; no one seriously hurt (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Some Logan County students had a scary moment when their school bus veered off an icy road and tipped onto its side yesterday afternoon, authorities say...Read more…

  • Galion City Schools tout safety for students on social media (Mansfield News Journal)

    • Police say there is no merit to a second accusation of inappropriate teacher-student relations at Galion schools — days after police arrested a high school teacher on sex charges...Read more…

  • City’s online school expects to grow (Springfield News-Sun)

    • In its first year, Springfield’s online school has about 50 full- and part-time students with hopes to double or triple that number...Read more…

  • Medina City Schools' Claggett Middle School lifts lockdown after bullet was found (Sun Newpapers)

    • A lockdown at Claggett Middle School in Medina was lifted early this afternoon, hours after first issued by district Superintendent Randy Stepp when a .22 caliber bullet was found in the hallway of the school...Read more…

  • Officials discuss school safety (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

    • BOARDMAN - How to prevent tragedies in schools was the topic of discussion Monday among state officials, law enforcement, teachers and school officials...Read more…

  • Officials lead school safety roundtable for area educators (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • Area educators try to identify potential problem students and rely on school resources and technology to make schools safe but acknowledge that nothing will prevent a school shooting tragedy from ever happening...Read more…

  • Chardon high shooting: Judge still not willing yet to move T.J. Lane's trial (Willoughby News Herald)

    • The decision on whether or not to change the location of the trial for accused Chardon High School shooter Thomas Lane III will still be made after an attempt to seat a jury, a judge has ruled...Read more…

Education News for 02-04-2013

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  • Governor’s office says school funding plan is a redistribution of wealth, not attempt at adequacy (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • On Thursday, Gov. John Kasich’s education experts stood in front of images on a screen and said they had arrived at a school funding formula that ends the inequity among Ohio’s richest and poorest districts…Read more...

  • Gov. John Kasich's school funding plan might hold little new money for many Northeast Ohio districts (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • Northeast Ohio may not benefit as much as other parts of the state from Gov. John Kasich’s proposal to overhaul school funding, a Plain Dealer analysis shows…Read more...

  • Officials seek details of Kasich plan for gifted (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Compared to other states, Ohio’s support for gifted students has been among the best: Only one other state with comparable data gave more money for gifted programs in 2011…Read more...

  • Rules vague on suspending teachers for misconduct (Columbus Dispatch)

    • After being arrested and charged with assault, domestic violence and disorderly conduct, a Westerville teacher paid bond and left jail. Eight days later, when students returned to school from winter break…Read more...

  • Only limit on new voucher is the budget (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Nearly half of Ohio’s 1.8 million elementary and secondary students could qualify in the coming years for tax-funded tuition to private schools under Gov. John Kasich’s plan to expand the state’s voucher program…Read more...

  • Incentives plan raises questions (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The same component of Gov. John Kasich’s school-funding plan that would empower districts to add performance pay incentives for teachers also could push districts to trim teachers from the payrolls…Read more...

  • Public schools would incur some cost of voucher expansion (Dayton Daily News)

    • An adviser for Gov. John Kasich on Friday provided more funding details about his controversial plan to expand the school voucher program in Ohio…Read more...

  • Area school chiefs greet Kasich plan with optimism (Findlay Courier)

    • Gov. John Kasich's school-funding plan was met with optimism and apprehension Friday as area superintendents said they are eager to find out the specifics of the overhaul, which will see the state spend $15.1 billion on schools over the next two years…Read more...

  • Should schools consider arming staff? (Marion Star)

    • Imagine this scenario. A man with a gun enters a school, intent on killing. A locked door doesn’t stop him. He gets through security efforts and starts shooting…Read more...

  • Bullying study: It does get better for gay, bisexual teens (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • It really does get better for gay and bisexual teens when it comes to being bullied, although young gay men have it worse than their lesbian peers, according to the first long-term scientific evidence…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Ex-cop ready to serve if schools sign on to his idea (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • There has been plenty of talk but little else since Butler County’s sheriff publicly floated the idea of retired cops working as armed substitute teachers…Read more...

  • Groveport schools could try new option for levy (Columbus Dispatch)

    • To solve long-term budget problems, Groveport Madison school leaders have proposed a tax-levy approach that few districts in the state have pursued…Read more...

  • Schools ‘cautiously optimistic’ about Kasich’s funding plan (Middletown Journal)

    • While Butler County school officials are still awaiting more detailed figures next week, overall reaction has been positive to Gov. John Kasich’s new model for school funding…Read more...

  • Tecumseh teachers earn grant support (Springfield News-Sun)

    • Eleven Tecumseh teachers will receive grants to assist with innovative projects for their classrooms that don’t fit in the district’s budge…Read more...

Editorial

  • Finally, a real response to DeRolph (Canton Repository)

    • Mountains of number crunching will necessarily follow the unveiling of Gov. John Kasich’s school funding plan…Read more...

  • Call for early learning funding is good news - and good business (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • About 90 percent of a child’s brain development happens by the age of 5. About 90 percent of public spending on education goes to the years after age 5…Read more...

  • A Playbook For Ohio Education Initiatives (I Teach Bay)

    • This is Super Bowl Weekend. Analysts have spent two weeks dissecting every possible factor that could impact the performance of either team in the big game…Read more...