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Education News for 12-07-2012

Local Education News

  • Buchtel students experience day on job with AT&T (Akron Beacon Journal)
  • Buchtel High School juniors Elijah Graise, Tylor Williams and DeMontrell Hill got a first-hand look Thursday at trouble-shooting a problem on the job…Read more...

  • T.J. Lane's admission about Chardon High shooting should not be used at trial, his lawyers argue (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • T.J. Lane's admissions that he killed students at Chardon High School should not be used at his trial next month because the youth failed to fully understand his rights when officers questioned him…Read more...

  • Olentangy may not need new school (Columbus Dispatch)
  • New enrollment forecasts in the Olentangy school district cast doubt on the need for a new school approved by voters last year…Read more...

  • Berea schools' new hours next year concern some parents (Sun Newspapers)
  • Parents showed up at Monday’s school board meeting to express concerns about the district’s new time shifts, which begin next year…Read more...

  • Toledo Public Schools weighs 3 candidates to audit its performance (Toledo Blade)
  • As Toledo Public Schools ramps up efforts to have an audit of its operations performed, the process of hiring an organization to conduct the audit has widened…Read more...

  • Champion plans cuts if next levy fails (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
  • While the Board of Education will wait until January to officially act on placing a school levy on the ballot in 2013, a plan to slash finances by $602,000 was mapped out this week…Read more...

  • Math Night brings kids, parents together in Springfield (Youngstown Vindicator)
  • Springfield students and parents went on a camping adventure Thursday night. Although the tent was indoors, there were real problems. Math problems, that is…Read more...

Education News for 04-27-2012

Statewide Education News

  • State may alter plan for grading schools (Dispatch)
  • Columbus School Superintendent Gene Harris says the state’s proposal does not give schools enough credit for student improvement and graduation rates. Columbus School Superintendent Gene Harris and others took issue yesterday with a new state plan to hand out letter grades to Ohio schools — significantly below current levels, in most cases — and they might get some of what they want. Read More…

Local Issues

  • TPS Students have 'aha' moment (Toledo Blade)
  • Test packets, heaped onto a cart, scattered across Robinson Elementary's hallway. The mass of paper was a temporary hassle for Principal Anthony Bronaugh, but it was covered in positive signs: Most tests had been finished by Robinson's students, and not in a flippant fashion. Children took the test seriously. "If I went based on effort," Mr. Bronaugh said, "we would be at academic excellence." Read More…

  • Olentangy athletic director says he made mistakes in handling money (Dispatch)
  • An Olentangy schools athletic director has resigned, and another has been reprimanded after they failed to document $11,000 in expenses from a tournament account. The school board accepted the resignation of Tom Gerhardt, the athletic director for Olentangy Liberty High School, at a meeting tonight. It is effective at the end of the school year. Read More…

  • Schools: Senior Pranks Costly, Dangerous To Schools (WBNS – 10TV)
  • Bexley City Schools officials said that they were taking a proactive approach when it comes to senior pranks and vandalism, CrimeTracker 10's Jeff Hogan reported Thursday. CrimeTracker 10 obtained new surveillance video of 10 students entering Northland High School earlier this month with a stolen set of keys. Students threw eggs and smeared baby oil on steps. Police found a grocery receipt for the eggs at the scene and the students admitted to police that it was a prank, Hogan reported. Read More…

  • Students’ video portrays consequences of distracted driving (Vindicator)
  • A lecture about impaired or distracted driving won’t do much good, but a video showing teens the consequences can be a whole different story, Newton Falls High School junior Taylor Blandine said. “They’d lose interest real soon in a lecture,” Blandine said Thursday morning after juniors and seniors at her school watched a video she and dozens of other Trumbull County high-school students produced. Read More…

  • Lima board to consider lowering GPA requirement for sports, extras (Lima News)
  • In an effort to stay competitive and give students opportunities to participate in athletics and other extracurricular activities, Lima schools is considering lowering what is required academically to take the field. Currently students must have a 1.75 GPA to participate in athletics or any extracurricular activity that students don't get a grade for. The district's Athletic Board of Control voted last week to lower it to 1.5. Read More…

  • Liberty school items located (Vindicator)
  • Educational equipment that Liberty’s former conversion schools purchased with federal grants has been stored at the Portage County Educational Services Center, the schools’ current sponsors, since February, officials from the conversion schools said. Cheryl Emrich, executive director at Portage County ESC, said in an email that the center had turned over to the Ohio Department of Education Community Schools Division an inventory of what was being held at the center. Read More…

Editorial & Opinion

  • Guarantee the guarantee (Akron Beacon Journal)
  • The Ohio Senate Education Committee is considering the proposal for a third-grade reading guarantee included in Gov. John Kasich’s midterm budget review. The measure would hold back in the third grade students who are not proficient readers at grade level after two or more years in a reading intervention program. It requires also that schools provide intensive remediation until the students meet the proficiency standard. Read More…

  • School sale a wise move for district, community (Marietta Times)
  • The Marietta City Schools Board of Education approved the sale of the former North Hills Elementary School and property Monday, nearly a decade after the school closed. We think that was a wise move that will benefit the district and the community. Read More…

Education News for 04-06-2012

Local Issues

  • Cleveland Teachers Union and Mayor Frank Jackson to continue negotiations next week over schools plan (Plain Dealer)
  • They'll be back at it again next week. Mayor Frank Jackson and the Cleveland Teachers Union concluded more than six hours of negotiations Wednesday night over the disputed parts of Jackson's school plan without reaching a final agreement, deciding to take a break from the talks over Easter weekend. Read More…

  • Cleveland education reform plan discussed at community meeting (News Channel 5)
  • CLEVELAND - Mayor Frank Jackson and Cleveland Schools CEO Eric Gordon outlined the plan for transforming schools at a community meeting Thursday night. "We're focused on quality education," Jackson told about 60 residents who gathered at the Gunning Recreation Center. Read More…

  • Chardon High School student, employee called heroes for efforts during shooting in February (Plain Dealer)
  • In the frantic moments after shots rang out Feb. 27 at Chardon High School, cafeteria worker Cherie Reed held open a kitchen door, offering students a haven from chaos and evil. Travis Carver, a 16-year-old junior, heard the noises and thought they were someone popping paper bags. Then he noticed T.J. Lane. Read More…

  • Olentangy bomb ‘threat’ no joke, teen told (Dispatch)
  • Hours before he boarded a plane that took him and his family to Kuwait yesterday, a teenage boy admitted to a Delaware County Juvenile Court judge that he had joked about blowing up his school the day before. Mohamed Mahmoud, 15, pleaded guilty today to inducing panic at Olentangy High School, which was evacuated and searched by authorities in response to what officials thought was a bomb threat. Read More…

  • Parents asked to weigh in on Beavercreek redistricting plan (Dayton Daily News)
  • Beavercreek City Schools officials want to hear from local parents about plans that affect where their children will attend school in 2013-14.< District officials held a public forum Wednesday at Beavercreek High School to present three sets of initial redistricting maps, and put those maps online Thursday. Read More…

Olentangy Schools Budget

Olentangy Schools Superintendent, Wade Lucas, provides a good overview of of the impact of the state budget on his district.

The Treasurer, Rebecca Jenkins, testimony on HB153 can be read here, and provides a good backdrop to the financial havoc this reckless budget is causing. This section caught our eye

Note that charter school per pupil funding (as well as state-wide per pupil funding) has grown each year over that same time period. This would seem logical since the state pupil funding amount has grown steadily over that period. It is interesting to note that if charter schools were kept at their 2006 funding level (like many other growing schools have experienced) their funding would have been over $55 million less in FY11.

Olentangy have a May 3rd ballot issue whereby voters will asked to pass a 7.9-mill operating and no-additional-millage bond issue. If you live in the district, take a moment to check out their FAQ.