Education News for 10-17-2012

State Education News

  • Cuyahoga Heights schools' former employee stole almost $4.2 million, state auditor says (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • Nearly $4.2 million was stolen from the Cuyahoga Heights school district by its former technology director…Read more...

  • Cheating shows charters, testing failed, author says (Columbus Dispatch)
  • School cheating scandals aimed at improving high-stakes student-proficiency test results are a symptom of a failed reform plan that is wasting billions of dollars…Read more...

  • State finally releases school and district grades (Columbus Dispatch)
  • The Ohio Department of Education released school and district grades for the 2011-12 academic year today, a couple of months late…Read more...

  • Online academy takes learning beyond school day (Hamilton Journal-News)
  • An online school is expanding Hamilton students’ technology knowledge and helping teachers provide more specific remediation…Read more...

  • Schools have a role in shaping healthy habits (Newark Advocate)
  • Jane Krueger’s class at John Clem Elementary School looked more like a school dance than a physical education class as students grooved to the beat…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Columbus City Schools: Schools treasurer urges $25M in cuts (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Columbus City Schools need to cut $25 million from next school year’s budget or risk running out of money, Treasurer Penny Rucker warned school board members last night…Read more...

  • Northridge good now, could be in debt in 2015 (Newark Advocate)
  • The Northridge Local School District is expected to be in the black until 2015, but the district likely will need levy funding to avoid a deficit in three years…Read more...

  • TPS drops to academic watch on report card (Toledo Blade)
  • Toledo Public Schools lost its continuous improvement ranking on Ohio school report cards and slipped into academic watch…Read more...

Editorial

  • Ohio schools should have their own EpiPens (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • The Ohio Association of School Nurses is busy writing what it hopes will be lifesaving legislation -- a bill that would require schools…Read more...

  • Classroom crime (Columbus Dispatch)
  • A scandal that landed a former Texas school superintendent in prison — for arranging for test scores of low-performing students to disappear from his district’s records — shows the gravity of the alleged data rigging…Read more...