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Education News for 02-12-2013

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State Education News

  • Divided state school board won’t oust Terhar over Facebook post (Columbus Dispatch)

    • A divided State Board of Education refused to remove President Debe Terhar yesterday after an uproar over her Adolf Hitler Facebook post. The board voted 10-6 against removing the Cincinnati Republican as board president after she apologized…Read more...

  • 'Jesus' painting on school-board agenda tonight (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Jackson school officials are confident that public support is on their side in endorsing the continued display in a middle school of a painting that depicts Jesus. Now, they must decide if the law is on their side.…Read more...

  • Auditor: Four more school districts rigged student data (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Four more Ohio school districts manipulated their student data, and the findings are being turned over to federal officials, State Auditor Dave Yost announced yesterday as he released the results of his statewide attendance investigation.…Read more...

  • Plan upsets Wolf Creek superintendent (Marietta Times)

    • Wolf Creek Local Superintendent Bob Caldwell said Monday he believes Ohio Gov. John Kasich "didn't follow through" with the school-funding plan he recently outlined for school administrators.…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Chief scolds mom who engaged in fight at Withrow (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • The mother and daughter, according to police, assaulted a 15-year-old girl, striking her with fists, feet and a combination lock. Teacher Kim Kilby suffered a black eye in the scuffle.…Read more...

    


  • New Cleveland school plan topic of forum at Idea Center Monday night (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • About 250 people, who were engaged and interested, heard all about the new Cleveland Plan for Transforming Schools at a forum Monday at The Idea Center at Playhouse Square."I want Cleveland to be known for education," said Mayor Frank Jackson…Read more...

  • Westerville school board selects superintendent (Columbus Dispatch)

    • A top administrator in the South-Western school district has been named the next superintendent of Westerville schools. John R. Kellogg, 50, will take over in Westerville next school year, replacing Dan Good…Read more...

  • Springboro board denies complaint made by teachers union (Dayton Daily News)

    • The Springboro school board wants the State Employee Relations Board to “immediately dismiss” an unfair labor practice complaint brought against them by the state teachers union.…Read more...

  • School board rehires Wittwer for 1 year (Findlay Courier)

    • Findlay school board unanimously voted Monday to rehire the district's superintendent after he retires at the end of the school year.…Read more...

    


  • JVS academic services director sues board, alleges discrimination, harassment (Lorain Morning Journal)

    • Cathy Pugh, the director of academic services for the Lorain County Joint Vocational School District Board of Education, has filed a lawsuit against the JVS for continuous discriminatory and harassing behavior…Read more...

  • 'State of the Schools': Superintendent has plans to reform Lorain's district (Lorain Morning Journal)

    • After six months on the job, Lorain City Schools Superintendent Tom Tucker has put the beginning of his plans to reform the district in to motion.…Read more...

    


  • Making math matter (Marion Star)

    • On a recent winter night at Elgin West Elementary School, more than 100 adults and students turned out to do math.…Read more...

  • Monroe schools, city council broach topic of shared services (Middletown Journal)

    • A partnership for shared technology services is underway between local government and school agencies in Monroe. Monroe school board members met Monday evening in a joint work session with Monroe city council members to discuss ideas for sharing services…Read more...

  • Safe Routes plan ready for approval (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

    • A revised Safe Routes to School Plan aimed at increasing the number of students walking or biking to Howland Middle School is in its final stages before being sent to the state for funding.…Read more...

Education News for 09-04-2012

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State Education News

  • Reading law has holdouts (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Mike Johnson loathes the idea of holding students back. But next year, Johnson, the superintendent of Bexley schools…Read more...

  • Truancy rates in doubt (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The Cleveland school district wiped more than 1,700 students from its rolls in a single year for being chronic truants…Read more...

  • Early college credit not enough (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Bryan Zake could have coasted in his senior year in high school. But he chose to get a head start on college by earning almost a year’s worth of classes at the University of Akron…Read more...

  • Kids late, lost as busing blunders abound (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Some school buses have been late taking kids home, sometimes by a couple of hours. Children have been left at the wrong stop, far from home. Other buses never showed up…Read more...

  • Students able to make up calamity days at home (Dayton Daily News)

    • Fifteen area school districts in the Miami Valley, as well as a couple of private schools…Read more...

  • Law more stringent on elementary readers (Hamilton Journal-News)

    • The percentage of third graders held held from fourth grade could quadruple in some local school districts…Read more...

  • Extra-curriculars keep students engaged (Marion Star)

    • A national report claims to shed some light on why students are skipping school. Local school officials say they hear a variety of reasons as they try different ways to encourage students to attend…Read more...

  • Local schools in attendance probe (Marion Star)

    • Government inspectors have been poring over student attendance records in school buildings across the state…Read more...

  • Area districts waiting out state report card delay (Middletown Journal)

    • The Ohio Board of Education’s delay in posting the state report cards has drawn mixed reactions from Middletown-area school districts. Some don’t mind the wait, while others would have preferred to be celebrating by now…Read more...

  • Ohio sports fees are growing trend, cutting in to athletics programs (Newark Advocate)

    • For an increasing number of Ohio families, students playing sports also means parents paying for sports. Participation fees, which can run into hundreds of dollars…Read more...

  • Schools prepare for third-grade reading guarantee (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • A law that takes full effect in the 2013-14 school year requires third-graders who aren’t reading at grade level to be held back another year…Read more...

  • Local Education News
    • Teach For America teachers start school year in local charter schools (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

      • The Village Prep charter school had openings for nine teachers this school year…Read more...

    • Football-concussion risk for middle-schoolers prompts protective moves (Columbus Dispatch)

      • Connor Laufenberg was a linebacker for his middle-school football team last fall when he took a hit that left him dizzy…Read more...

    • District let girl stay home for six weeks (Columbus Dispatch)

      • When Stacy Cox read her daughter’s report card from Columbus City Schools’ Marion- Franklin High School, it showed almost perfect attendance…Read more...

    • $2M deficit expect for Monroe schools at end of school year (Middletown Journal)

      • Monroe Local Schools will finish with a $2 million operating deficit at the end of the school year if no new revenue is brought into the district, according to treasurer Holly Cahall…Read more...

    • Engineering course offered at Franklin High School (Middletown Journal)

      • For the first time, the Franklin school district is offering a nationally recognized pre- engineering program at the high school…Read more...

    • Officer out of Monroe schools, again (Middletown Journal)

      • Monroe School District is once again without a school resource officer. City Council decided to reinstate a school resource officer for the first two weeks…Read more...

    • Report card scores discussed at PCSD (Portsmouth Daily Times)

      • Parents, community members, teachers, and school administrators gathered Wednesday morning for the Portsmouth City School District…Read more...

    • Ursuline leads Valley schools with 9 AP courses (Youngstown Vindicator)

      • Twelve seniors sit in a third-floor classroom at Ursuline High School discussing literature…Read more...

    • Youngstown School District | Defining partnerships (Youngstown Vindicator)

      • The city school district is trimming its large list of partnerships, bringing such support more in line with the needs of students…Read more...

  • Editorial
    • Drawing up a route to better Cleveland schools (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

      • The Cleveland School District seems to know what it wants to be in the near future -- an effective system where more students attend…Read more...

    • Delaying state school district report cards is a necessity (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

      • The Ohio Board of Education wisely and unanimously decided recently to delay the release of critically important school district report cards…Read more...

    • Wrong watchdog )Columbus Dispatch)

      • The Ohio Department of Education’s request for more authority to monitor and investigate school districts data collection is premature…Read more...

    • Former school head should repay (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

      • ''I just didn't know how else to do it,'' former Ohio state school Superintendent Stan Heffner told investigators looking into the scandal that forced him to resign earlier this summer…Read more...

    • Education News for 02-03-2012

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    Statewide Education News

    • Cuts in Ohio's state budget could make Northeast Ohio communities consider combining services (Plain Dealer)

      • CLEVELAND - Gov. John Kasich's $112 billion state budget, which cut $455 million in funding for local governments, has caused communities statewide to consider collaborating and sharing services. That was the focus of a special forum held before about 55 people Thursday evening at the City Club in downtown Cleveland. Orange Mayor Kathy Mulcahy, one of three panelists, said that regionalism could be good for local governments but that she realizes a lack of trust among city leaders and the potential loss of supportive officials -- if they are not re-elected -- hinders the process. Read More…

    • Bill's school scheduling limits draw fire from educators (Times Reporter)

      • Area superintendents are cool to the idea of restricting the school year from Labor Day to Memorial Day — a measure that proponents say would help Ohio’s tourism industry. “This sends the wrong message to the people of Ohio with new school standards coming out,” said Newcomerstown Schools Superintendent Jeff Staggs. He wondered why the state would condense the time that school districts have to prepare their students to get ready for new tests and curriculum that will take effect in 2014 and 2015. Read More…

    • Monroe schools fall into 'fiscal watch' (Enquirer)

      • MONROE — Despite recent deep budget cuts with more planned in 2012, the Monroe school district was placed in “fiscal watch” Thursday by the Ohio Auditor’s office. “These are undoubtedly tough times for the Monroe Schools that will require difficult decisions,” Ohio Auditor David Yost said. “I encourage the district to utilize every tool available to chart a path back to fiscal health.” The Butler County district had already been placed in “fiscal caution” last fall by the Ohio Department of Education and school district officials said they were not surprised by this latest development. Read More…

    • County boards share services, budgets (Dispatch)

      • Because federal funds won’t be increasing and state money is diminishing, county boards of developmental disabilities across Ohio are cutting their budgets. “The money we all once had isn’t coming back, and programs are adjusting accordingly. And, yes, change is difficult, particularly when our sons and daughters are vulnerable,” John L. Martin, the director of the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities, told board members in charge of such programs in Union County last week. Read More…

    Local Issues

    • School Background Checks Under Scrutiny (WBNS 10 CBS)

      • GRANDVIEW HEIGHTS - A California teacher was in jail on $23 million bond on Thursday after being accused of tying up his students and other children up and taking pictures. The teacher, Mark Berndt, had passed his background check, CrimeTracker 10’s Jeff Hogan reported. A central Ohio superintendent said on Thursday that there were checks in place to prevent a school employee from getting away with criminal behavior. Read More…

    • CPS rolls out career-counseling tool (Enquirer)

      • Cincinnati Public Schools’ high school students will soon have their own personal guidance counselors -- ones that start working with the student as early as ninth grade, will be available anytime they’re needed and who memorize their career goals and do college research in a split second. Oh, the counselors aren’t people. They’re embodied in a software program called Naviance Succeed. CPS has partnered with the software giant Naviance, based in Arlington, Va., for a computer program that allows students to create individual success plans for college and career. Read More…

    • Hebrew is elementary at Youngstown's Akiva Academy (Vindicator)

      • Youngstown - By using the Rosetta Stone program, Akiva Academy sixth- grader Alexander Smith, 12, may work on Hebrew at his own pace. “It’s supposed to be one of the easiest [languages], but I struggle,” he said. Using the program, though, lets him focus on areas that give him difficulty. Sixth- and seventh- graders at the school began using Rosetta online about a month ago with plans for fourth- and fifth-graders to begin using it soon. Read More…

    • City schools OK tutoring for 2,901 students (Dispatch)

      • After a long delay, the Columbus City Schools now have approved tutoring for 2,901 students in a federally funded program, and the district is awaiting information from companies that have signed up an additional 600 children. Because of a time lag in invoicing, the district doesn’t know how many students have begun being tutored. As of Wednesday, the district had received bills for 241 students. Read More…

    Editorial

    • Passing the Blue Ribbon Schools test (L.A. Times)

      • When the 2011 winners of the coveted National Blue Ribbon Schools award were announced, only one of the 305 recipients was in Los Angeles, and that was a charter school. By contrast, two were located about 30 miles away, in Santa Ana — in a school district less than one-tenth the size of L.A. Unified. Yet Santa Ana Unified is far from affluent. A higher percentage of its students are poor and not fluent in English than in L.A. Unified. Close to 95% are Latino — making Santa Ana the most demographically homogenous school district in Orange County. Read More…

    Education News for 01-20-2012

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    Statewide Education News

    • Parents, Schools Work Around Growing Food Allergies (ONN)

      • MARENGO - Doug Eckelbarger is a Social Studies teacher who has a daughter with a potential fatal peanut allergy. "It was pretty scary, hives from head down to the torso," said Eckelbarger. Eckelbarger's daughter has had close calls before which is why it is so important to monitor what she eats at home and school, ONN's Stephanie Mennecke reported. At Highland Local Schools, they do the best they can to watch 2,000 students. Food allergies and medical conditions for each student are kept electronically. Read More…

    Local Issues

    • Westerville Schools Discuss Services That Could Return If Levy Is Passed (WBNS 10 CBS)

      • WESTERVILLE - The Westerville City School Board met Wednesday to discuss the possibility of reviving programs if its proposed levy passes. Superintendent Dr. J. Daniel Good, warned students and parents that while programs could come back they may not be the same as before, 10TV's Jason Frazer reported. The district is proposing a levy in March. Administrators said approval of that levy could bring back non-athletic after-school programs, gift intervention services and reading intervention teachers. Read More…

    • Monroe schools to cut 19 employees (Middletown Journal)

      • MONROE — Monroe Local Schools Superintendent Elizabeth Lolli said Thursday 19 positions will be eliminated next school year as a part of the district’s plan to cut $2.2 million from its budget. Among the cuts will be three art and three music teaching positions as a result of general music classes in grades K-6 being eliminated along with art classes in grades K-8. Those subjects will be taught by regular classroom teachers, Lolli said. Thirteen teachers, three classified staff and three administrators are expected to be eliminated. Read More…

    • School, Student Responded Right Way To Alleged Luring (WBNS 10 CBS)

      • CIRCLEVILLE - Sheriff's officials said on Thursday that both the Logan Elm Local School District and a boy who allegedly was approached by a stranger responded the right way in a difficult situation. Police said that John Guisinger, 62, approached a 12-year-old boy at a bus stop on Wednesday and attempted to lure the boy to his car. According to investigators, the boy ran and told his family. "He was very smart. Very smart kid. Took off running, got a hold of his mom and his grandma right away, and they called the proper authorizes," said Pickaway County sheriff's Detective John Strawser. Read More…

    Editorial

    • Drawing the line: What happens at home is not school business (Post-Gazette)

      • It's one thing for Pink Floyd to sing: "Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!" It's another that the U.S. Supreme Court should implicitly endorse that sentiment by not agreeing to take two cases from Pennsylvania and one from West Virginia concerning free speech and school discipline. Juvenile parodies and criticism were at issue in the cases. One was about a then-Hickory High School senior in Mercer County suspended for creating a mocking Web profile of his principal. Another involved an eighth-grader suspended in the Blue Mountain School for producing a profanity-laced profile of her principal that suggested he was a pedophile. The West Virginia case was about a teen who disparaged a fellow student online. Read More…