State Education News
- GED test to triple in price (Columbus Dispatch)
- Groups get ready to fight for schools (Columbus Dispatch)
- State Board to Vote Against Additional Funding for Pre-K, Reading Instruction (State Impact Ohio)
- Colleges need to do more to ensure students stay in school and graduate, task force says (The Plain Dealer)
- Rossford schools treasurer reappointed to Ohio school retirement position (Toledo Blade)
- Ohio Lawmaker Wants To See Metal Detectors At Every School (WBNS-TV)
Angela Surles can barely afford to buy diapers and clothes for her 1-year-old daughter. The 22-year-old single mom from the Short North quit her job at Sears to enter a six-week course to help her get her high-school equivalency certificate…Read more...
More than 15 years after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the way the state funds public education is unconstitutional, state leaders continue to tinker with the school funding.…Read more...
Sunday-Wednesday: School board members, administrators and friends gather in Columbus for the annual Ohio School Boards Association conference. Expect the launch of the Strong Schools Strong Communities public education advocacy coalition.…Read more...
Unless Ohio's two- and four-year public colleges ensure that every student who enrolls is able to graduate and find a job, the state will be unable to compete in a global economy…Read more...
James Rossler, treasurer of the Rossford schools, has been reappointed to the board of the School Employees Retirement System of Ohio.…Read more...
Knives, box cutters and screwdrivers would never clear an airport security scanner. But those items, along with guns and other weapons, could pass through the doors of most Ohio schools without detection.…Read more...
Op/Ed
- Now let's talk about real education innovations (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
The Plain Dealer's coverage of blended learning provides a glimmer of hope that, now that elections are over, we will soon come to the realization that having the money follow the child is the only way to provide quality education for all children.…Read more...
Local Education News
- Nelsonville-York teacher receives national recognition (Athens Messenger)
- School board looks at cost cutting options (The Review)
- South-Western may join Central Ohio Compact (This Week News)
- Rossford officially begins superintendent search (Toledo Blade)
- Ohio school awards WWII veteran posthumous diploma (WFJM)
A Nelsonville-York elementary school teacher who was the first from Southeastern Ohio to receive the state’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year award also received national recognition for her efforts.…Read more...
EAST LIVERPOOL - With a five-year forecast predicting budget deficits beginning in the 2015- 2016 school year, the city's board of education this week discussed belt-tightening measures that could be implemented to cut costs.…Read more...
The South-Western City School District Board of Education will be considering whether the district should join the Central Ohio Compact.…Read more...
The search for a new Rossford schools superintendent has begun in earnest.…Read more...
AKRON, Ohio (AP) - As it marks Veterans Day, a northeast Ohio school district is awarding a posthumous diploma for a man who was drafted into the military for World War II and died in Germany in 1944.…Read more...