State Education News
- Ohio's school spending could shoot up (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- School aid would be boosted under Ohio Senate proposal (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Ohio Senate ups education funding in budget (Columbus Dispatch)
- Schools challenge families to scale back on tech use (Columbus Dispatch)
- ODOT grants will help kids get to school more safely (Columbus Dispatch)
- Senate funding plan aims to assist Ohio education system (Lorain Morning Journal)
- Bill with similarities to "Cleveland Plan" could soon pass for Columbus schools (Ohio Public Radio)
- Senators say their school funding plan is constitutional (Ohio Public Radio)
- State Senate plan for 2-year budget not as good for TPS (Toledo Blade)
- School funding plan in the works could increase dollars for some districts (Youngstown Vindicator)
Ohio public school funding would grow by 11 percent over the next two years versus 2012- 2013 spending levels, the largest percent increase in education spending in at least a decade, under the proposal Senate Republicans…Read more...
Ohio Senate leaders this afternoon proposed boosting basic state aid to districts from $6.3 billion this school year to more than $7 billion…Read more...
Most Franklin County school districts would see state funding increases averaging nearly 9 percent per year under Senate-proposed changes to the new two-year budget…Read more...
Her daughter yearned for the television, her son for his iPod. Both parents felt disconnected without phones and computers. But for one week they left electronics untouched.Well, at least the kids did…Read more...
The Ohio Department of Transportation has approved $7.2 million in projects to improve safety for students getting to and from school…Read more...
A substitute version of Ohio’s school funding plan proposed by the Senate would increase aid for state education $717.4 million over the next 10 years…Read more...
It’s been a rough school year for Columbus City Schools. The district is under investigation by the State Auditor’s office and the FBI for tampering with student attendance data and grades. And the struggling district has a history of less-than-stellar…Read more...
Ohio Senators are calling their new budget plan “a work in progress” but they are touting it as a major improvement in funding for Ohio’s public schools…Read more...
Senate Republicans on Thursday said they will pump $717 million more into basic aid for K- 12 schools during the next two years in the budget they plan to approve next week…Read more...
Senate Republicans unveiled a new school-funding formula Thursday that likely will change as it moves through committee deliberations and passage in the Senate…Read more...
Local Education News
- Clear Fork to improve school routes (Mansfield News Journal)
- Brecksville-Broadview Heights educators hoping to expand EdCamp (Sun Newspapers)
The Ohio Department of Transportation said Thursday it will dole out $7.2 million for 58 different Safe Routes to School projects in Ohio communities…Read more...
A pair of Brecksville-Broadview Heights educators once again are teaming to host a free conference about education…Read more...