Education News for 02-22-2013

State Education News

  • Educators, state agency in deadlock over funds (Akron Beacon Journal)
  • The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and more than 350 school districts are in a fight over millions of dollars in Medicaid money that is used to provide services…Read more...

  • Ohio Federation of Teachers members take concerns about evaluations to state legislators (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • Members of the Ohio Federation of Teachers fanned out across the offices of state legislators today to air their concerns…Read more...

  • More changes coming to Youngstown schools (Youngstown Vindicator)
  • Next year will see restructured schools and programs for the city school district for the second time in three years…Read more...

Local Education News

  • School chief will face no charges (Cincinnati Enquirer)
  • A local school superintendent investigated by prosecutors said an agreement Thursday ending his case doesn’t end the need for more state funding for poor families…Read more...

  • No charges for schools chief who ripped Kasich (Columbus Dispatch)
  • The Warren County prosecutor will not charge a Dayton-area superintendent who blasted Gov. John Kasich’s school-funding plan…Read more...

  • McDonald police to patrol village schools (Youngstown Vindicator)
  • The McDonald Board of Education has agreed to hire village police officers at $25 an hour to patrol the school campus daily…Read more...

  • Youngstown superintendent is finalist for another job (Youngstown Vindicator)
  • The city schools superintendent is one of four finalists for the top job in the Little Rock, Ark., school district…Read more...

Editorial

  • School funding? Still clear as mud (Canton Repository)
  • Tuesday night, in his third State of the State address, Gov. Kasich was generous in his praise of the Legislature for backing the “big ideas” he championed in his first two years as governor…Read more...

  • Ohio heroes make life better for all (Columbus Dispatch)
  • When Gov. John Kasich initiated the Governor’s Courage Award during last year’s State of the State speech, he called attention to the brave and selfless acts of ordinary Ohioans — and some famous ones…Read more...