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Education News for 10-22-2012

State Education News

  • School chiefs making exodus from districts (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Almost half the school districts in Franklin County will lose their leaders this school year, an educational brain drain for central Ohio…Read more...

  • 2004 schools audit died quiet death (Columbus Dispatch)
  • In the fall of 2004, Andrew J. Ginther, who was then on the Columbus Board of Education and is now Columbus City Council president, received two anonymous messages…Read more...

  • School levies ruling ballot (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Two-thirds of the school levies on the Nov. 6 ballot are seeking additional local revenue to support public education, the highest percentage of new tax issues…Read more...

  • In some school districts, about 40 percent of their third-graders could be held back by a new state law (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Ohio school districts have started to tell some parents that their child is behind in reading, offering a glimpse of how many students could be held back under the state’s new third- grade reading-guarantee law…Read more...

  • Schools districts find ways to incorporate digital textbooks (Middletown Journal)
  • When U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said this month that all schools should convert to digital textbooks, some less affluent school districts cried foul…Read more...

  • Ohio e-book purchasers in line (Portsmouth Daily Times)
  • If you purchsed certain electronic books (e-books), you should be looking for an email…Read more...

  • State remaking the grade on report cards (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
  • Like other local administrators, Lakeview Schools Superintendent Robert Wilson said that his district will work to hit the state's academic target regardless of where it stands…Read more...

  • Patrol prepares for Bus Safety Week (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
  • Area Ohio State Highway Patrol posts are participating in National School Bus Safety Week, which starts Monday…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Trial in Chardon High shootings postponed until January (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • The trial of T.J. Lane, the teenager accused of killing three students and shooting three others at Chardon High School, has been rescheduled to Jan. 14…Read more...

  • Group wants Columbus schools’ seclusion-room doors removed (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Take the doors off seclusion rooms before more children are harmed, a disability-rights group told the Columbus school district…Read more...

    http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/10/20/group-wants-columbus-schools-seclusion- room-doors-removed.html

  • Former Perrysburg woman indicted, accused of stealing from school, community groups (Toledo Blade)
  • A former Perrysburg woman accused of stealing thousands of dollars from school and community groups was indicted this week on charges she stole from three other organizations…Read more...

  • TPS’ challenge will get tougher without new tax (Toledo Blade)
  • This wasn’t the October surprise that Toledo Public Schools wanted. Even as TPS is pleading with voters to approve a big tax increase this fall, school leaders are scrambling to explain why a new state-issued report card has downgraded…Read more...

  • iPads no longer going home with Cleveland Heights students after thefts (WEWS)
  • A dozen thefts in the past two weeks have robbed middle school students…Read more...

  • Perry Schools' 5-year forecast points to deficit spending (Willoughby News Herald)
  • The Perry School District has approved a five-year forecast that projects deficit spending in 2016. Treasurer Lew Galante explained that each year, the time frame for when deficit spending could be expected has been delayed…Read more...

Editorial

  • Awash in excellence (Akron Beacon Journal)
  • What’s all the grousing about an underperforming public school system in Ohio? Take a look at the latest state report cards, and the impression is that the public is needlessly critical of the quality of public education…Read more...