State Education News
- Local taxpayers may pay heavy price for state legislature’s reading mandates (Akron Beacon Journal)
- Schools brace for teacher retirements after pension reform (Canton Repository)
- Educators on edge as funding plan nears (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- Ohio's state tests slated to get much harder in two years (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Local school officials brace for the worst as they wonder what Gov. John Kasich's budget will have (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Some on state board press for special meeting over Terhar controversy (Columbus Dispatch)
- Ohio schools look at adding police officers (Columbus Dispatch)
- Schools move quickly to boost security (Columbus Dispatch)
- Bill to get police in school (Columbus Dispatch)
- Casino money 'drop in bucket’ for schools (Lima News)
- Incentive would help cops work as substitute teachers (Mansfield News Journal)
- New online tool reports teacher, school employees’ salaries (Springfield News-Sun)
- Kasich set to unveil school funding plan (Toledo Blade)
The state legislature in June invoked a “third-grade reading guarantee,” requiring school districts beginning in 2014 to keep children from advancing to the fourth grade…Read more...
Even before state lawmakers passed reforms to the state’s five pension systems, North Canton City Schools Treasurer Todd Tolson watched a mass…Read more...
Gov. John Kasich is expected to release a new school funding formula this week, becoming the fourth Ohio governor to try to fix a funding system the state Supreme Court has said is inequitable and unconstitutional…Read more...
Ohio is about to raise the bar on its state tests for students in third through eighth grade. And just about everyone is predicting…Read more...
Local school officials are bracing themselves for Gov. John Kasich's plan for funding schools…Read more...
Several members of the Ohio Board of Education want a special meeting to discuss the controversy surrounding Board President Debe Terhar…Read more...
Most Ohio high schools and some middle schools have an armed, uniformed police officer or deputy sheriff…Read more...
Within days of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting last month, officials in Ohio schools began to sign off on safety updates that had long sat on the back burner…Read more...
Many students might not dwell on the possibility of violence erupting at their school, but some Reynoldsburg seniors say a plan aimed at encouraging off-duty law-enforcement officers…Read more...
School districts will take every dollar they can get, but officials don’t want the public to confuse casino tax money expected this week to be anything more than what it really is…Read more...
U.S. Rep. Pat Tiberi wants to encourage off-duty police officers to serve as substitute teachers by giving them a break on their federal taxes…Read more...
A searchable online database of 2012 salary data for every public school employee in Ohio is now available online, thanks to a right-leaning Columbus-based think tank that published the information…Read more...
It’s been a decade since the Ohio Supreme Court issued its fourth and final ruling declaring the state’s funding of schools unconstitutional because it placed students in poorer districts at a competitive…Read more...
Local Education News
- Chillicothe schools' orchestra spared from cuts for good measure (Chillicothe Gazette)
- CPS open enrollment plan meets opposition (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- School launches natural resources program (Springfield News-Sun)
- Chinese students show off talents at Toledo schools (Toledo Blade)
- Shared treasurer decision pending in Liberty, Hubbard (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
It’s been called the “crown jewel” of the Chillicothe City Schools. The orchestra program, which is the only one of its kind in the region…Read more...
The Cincinnati Public Schools board of education expects to vote tonight to open enrollment to out-of-district students…Read more...
The Springfield-Clark Career Technology Center will introduce a natural resources management program next school year, the school’s first new addition…Read more...
It was Pen Tsou’s classroom, but at least for a moment, another teacher took the lead…Read more...
A decision will be made in May as to whether two neighboring school districts will share a treasurer…Read more...
Editorial
- Link performance to review of parents (Columbus Dispatch)
- Teaching the teachers (Akron Beacon Journal)
- New emphasis (Columbus Dispatch)
- Protecting confidences (Columbus Dispatch)
- Bad bet (Findlay Courier)
According to the Jan. 15 Dispatch article “Teachers’ pay might be linked to quality,” merit pay for teachers would be based on several things but “more on performance than experience…Read more...
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Classroom teachers increasingly are feeling the heat to raise student achievement levels. It is quite appropriate that close attention is falling…Read more...
Mental-health care is a critical and underserved need, as was underscored in the wake of recent shootings by mentally disturbed young men…Read more...
The unfolding statewide scandal involving school districts accused of cheating on their state report cards makes abundantly clear why employees willing to blow the whistle…Read more...
Ohio school administrators say they won't rely on state casino revenues to balance their budgets. That is a wise approach, considering their cut of gamblers' wagers at the state's casinos will never make up for state funding…Read more...