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Education News for 02-27-2013

State Education News

  • School-funding tweaks possible, Kasich adviser says (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Legislators got another tutorial on Gov. John Kasich’s school-funding plan yesterday, but the additional details failed to alleviate many concerns about how state aid will be distributed…Read more...

  • State education department probes data ‘scrubbing’ by schools (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Columbus City Schools and eight other Ohio districts are now under investigation by the Ohio Department of Education for misrepresenting student enrollment data, meaning they could lose funding and educators…Read more...

  • Schools getting ready for state testing in March (Newark Advocate)
  • From March 11-15, the high school will start on a two-hour delay schedule because of the Ohio Graduation Tests. Buses will run on their normal schedule. All sophomores, and any upperclassmen who need to retest, need to arrive at 7:30 a.m…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Columbus school board well-trained in policy governance (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Keeping your nose out of the CEO’s business doesn’t come cheap. The Columbus Board of Education has spent almost $100,000 for training in “policy governance” since it adopted the management model…Read more...

  • Ignoring mayor, school board plows ahead with superintendent search (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman and members of his Education Commission demanded this month that the city school district drop plans to hire a full-time superintendent by April…Read more...

  • TPS board delays vote to extend pacts for 4 in cabinet (Toledo Blade)
  • The Toledo Board of Education delayed a vote Tuesday on contract extensions for most members of the superintendent’s cabinet, but board members claimed their actions were not an indication of a lack of board support…Read more...

  • Newark School Committee Discusses Arming Teachers To Improve Security (WBNS)
  • After the tragedy at Sandy Hook, Newark City Schools formed a safety committee which held its first meeting on Monday. Among the safety suggestions that were discussed was the idea of arming teachers…Read more...

  • Chardon reacts to T.J. Lane's guilty plea as it remembers school shooting (Willoughby News Herald)
  • People heading to a Chardon High School concert on Tuesday night had a variety of opinions on Thomas Lane III's guilty plea earlier the same day…Read more...

Editorial

  • A word of caution to CCS (Canton Repository)
  • Canton City Schools Superintendent Adrian Allison rightly feels a sense of urgency about restructuring the district’s schools…Read more...

  • For Chardon, an anniversary and a guilty plea (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • A shaken 200-pound Chardon High School football player walking down the hall wrapped in a Linus blanket…Read more...