Education News for 12-17-2012

State Education News

  • Attorney General Mike DeWine urges schools to submit safety plans after Connecticut school (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • The shooting Friday morning in an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. that left 20 children and seven adults dead, including the shooter, prompted Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine to remind the remaining 145…Read more...

  • Most schools soon will let some kids skip gym (Columbus Dispatch)
  • By next school year, most districts in Franklin County will let students bypass gym class if they play a sport or participate in marching band or cheerleading. State law has allowed the option since 2006…Read more...

  • West Geauga School District offers programs for children with disabilities (Willoughby News Herald)
  • In accordance with operating standards for Ohio's Schools Serving Children with Disabilities, the West Geauga School District is seeking to identify, locate and evaluate all children with disabilities in the district…Read more...

  • Chardon reacts to Connecticut school shooting (Willoughby News Herald)
  • Memories of the Feb. 27 shooting at Chardon High School came flooding back with a vengeance for many area folks Friday, following news of the Connecticut elementary school slayings…Read more...

  • State committee and liberty school board set to meet (Youngstown Vindicator)
  • Local and state officials are hoping to create a new road to financial recovery for the Liberty school district…Read more...

National Education News

  • Oklahoma student arrested in alleged school-massacre plot (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Oklahoma police arrested a high-school student on charges that he was plotting to carry out a shooting and bombing massacre at his school…Read more...

  • Teachers, parents brace for day (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Jessica Kornfeld drove her children to their elementary school this past weekend. She wanted them to feel reassured that it was still safe, despite a horrific shooting in New England that killed 20 students close to their own age…Read more...

  • State Chiefs to Examine Teacher Prep, Licensing (Education Week)
  • Twenty-five state schools chiefs are vowing to take action to update their systems of teacher preparation and licensing, with an eye to ensuring teachers are ready the minute they take charge of their own classrooms…Read more...

  • Neighboring region's schools address security concerns (USA Today)
  • Schools in the Lower Hudson Valley in New York are working to find a balance between frightening children with worries about their safety and being ready to offer comfort for the nervous…Read more...

  • Autistic excel at detail, repetition (USA Today)
  • An estimated 1.5 million people in the United States have autism spectrum disorder, so chances are you may be affected by autism in some way…Read more...

  • Sandy Hook victims shared love for life, learning (USA Today)
  • NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The horror wrought by a lone gunman on this close-knit community crystallized Saturday afternoon as the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre were publicly identified…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Luxottica buys 540 laptops for high school (Cincinnati Enquirer)
  • Another Cincinnati Public School is going high-tech. Withrow University High School, an 880- student, 9-12 school in Hyde Park has partnered with Luxottica, a global eyewear company whose retail office is based in Mason, to buy 540 new laptops…Read more...

  • For former Cleveland schools leader Barbara Byrd-Bennett, Chicago is the final challenge (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • Chicago -- When Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked Barbara Byrd-Bennett to run the nation's third-largest school system, she didn't exactly jump at the chance…Read more...

  • Unorthodox approach working for Reynoldsburg schools (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Ask Reynoldsburg Superintendent Steve Dackin what’s behind the innovation in his district, and he’ll point to a set of beliefs shared by the school board, teachers and administrators…Read more...

  • Columbus students’ credits now in question (Columbus Dispatch)
  • The state is investigating whether Columbus schools awarded grades and credits to students who did not earn them…Read more...

  • Area educators shocked, but say they're prepared (Findlay Courier)
  • Northwestern Ohio school officials said Friday they were as shocked as anyone by the Connecticut school tragedy, but they are as ready as possible for something similar…Read more...

  • School officials, experts provide tips on discussing school shooting (Marion Star)
  • It’s likely children may have questions following today’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. School officials and counselors offered some tips on how to address their concerns…Read more...

  • Facebook post prompts school district “all-call” (Springfield News-Sun)
  • A post on a student’s Facebook page created safety concerns for Shawnee High School today…Read more...

  • Weathersfield teachers upset with contract talks (Youngstown Vindicator)
  • Weathersfield Local Schools teachers took up informational pickets of the schools to let the community know they believe they are being treated unfairly in contract negotiations…Read more...

Editorial

  • Cleveland schools CEO turns to parents (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • Now that Cleveland has passed a 15-mill levy slated to bring in millions for the district, this is no time for Clevelanders to sit on their hands…Read more...

  • Goosing up gigabits (Columbus Dispatch)
  • “Ohio is really cool.” That’s the upshot of what a new, lightning-quick broadband Internet network means for this state, Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee…Read more...

  • Too little, too late (Columbus Dispatch)
  • The sudden interest of the Columbus Board of Education in its internal auditor is appropriate, but overdue…Read more...