Education News for 11-20-2012

State Education News

  • School levy failure won’t stop drug testing (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Despite a failed tax levy that could lead to more cuts, the North Fork school district is reinstating its drug-testing program…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Audit cited in board members' defeat (Cincinnati Enquirer)
  • The fallout from the state audit of the Mason County School District continues with the defeat of two Board of Education members in the Nov. 7 election and the near-loss of a third member to a write-in candidate…Read more...

  • Cleveland City Council seeks tougher penalties for failing to stop for school bus (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • Ten days after a Cleveland municipal judge ordered a woman to stand in public with a sign labeling herself an “idiot” for driving on a sidewalk to avoid a stopped school bus…Read more...

  • Highland Schools: No charges for not reporting sexual misconduct (Columbus Dispatch)
  • No charges will be filed against two Morrow County elementary-school principals and one teacher who had been under investigation…Read more...

  • Elida board soon to decide on levy, cuts (Lima News)
  • The next couple of months will be full of tough decisions for the Elida school board. After the levy defeat earlier this month, the board now faces decisions on going back to voters and what to cut from its budget…Read more...

  • Warren board discusses unanticipated tax bill (Marietta Times)
  • The granted appeal of a tax bill from several years ago has cost the Warren Local school district more than $160,000…Read more...

  • Conotton Valley cuts music program (New Philadelphia Times)
  • The Conotton Valley Union School Board made the first of what may be several budget cuts…Read more...

  • Auburn Career Center focuses on community outreach, opens welding lab (Willoughby News Herald)
  • At Monday's ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new welding lab, educators with Auburn Career Center also unveiled the new strategic plan for the center…Read more...

Editorial

  • On the money (Columbus Dispatch)
  • As other major American cities struggle to provide the basic services, Columbus is fortunate to have leadership that has locked down expenses and is able to propose a 2013 budget that invests in improving neighborhoods, strengthening safety forces…Read more...

  • Example exists for grad rates (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
  • Among nine schools the Ohio Department of Education is holding up as models of success under trying circumstances is East Garfield Elementary in Steubenville…Read more...