State Education News
- Transportation costs squeezing school districts (Akron Beacon Journal)
- Auditor’s focus in records seizure was mostly grade changes (Columbus Dispatch)
- Ohio's education standards debated (Columbus Dispatch)
- School funding plan improving (Findlay Courier)
- Early start, better finish? (Newark Advocate)
- Health department, school monitor MRSA (Springfield News-Sun)
Mogadore, Cuyahoga Falls, Akron and Barberton schools have more in common than interconnecting county highways…Read more...
State Auditor Dave Yost seized records of grade and attendance changes for more than 870 students for his data-tampering…Read more...
New math and English standards known as the Common Core are already in Ohio classrooms, even as opposition mounts from groups that include those affiliated…Read more...
Legislators don't often change their minds on important policy issues, but state Rep. Robert Sprague said he did when he learned the details of Gov. John Kasich's school funding plan…Read more...
As a single mother working full-time, Jessica Dyer doesn’t have much time to work with her 2-year-old daughter, Annabelle…Read more...
The Ohio Department of Health and the Clark County Combined Health District are working with Springfield school officials to address recent cases of the staph infection…Read more...
Local Education News
- Transportation disparities put many students walking to school on dangerous path (Akron Beacon Journal)
- School levies asking for new money on rise (Akron Beacon Journal)
- Gay Catholic-school teacher’s firing raises questions (Columbus Dispatch)
- BYOD lets NHS students to bring their own technology to school (Newark Advocate)
- State calls East Portsmouth Elementary a “School of Honor” (Portsmouth Daily Times)
- Campbell schools receives grant from state (Youngstown Vindicator)
Anise Moore had mixed feelings about safety in the rough neighborhood where her kids walk to school…Read more...
All but two of the 15 school districts in the five-county Akron-Canton area with an issue on the May 7 ballot are proposing tax hikes for homeowners — a request that’s increasingly frequent…Read more...
The firing of a gay Catholic-school teacher by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus raises competing constitutional questions about religious freedoms and civil liberties…Read more...
For the past few years, Brian Stepanic had a sign in his classroom instructing students not to use wireless devices such as cellphones and tablets during school…Read more...
The Portsmouth City School Board rewarded faculty and staff of East Portsmouth Elementary School with a special luncheon…Read more...
The Ohio Department of Education has awarded the Campbell school district almost $120,000 for a 2013-14 elementary school reading program…Read more...
Editorial
- Cleveland schools leaders lay out broad transformation ideas (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Is minimum OK with Elida voters? (Lima News)
It's taken a while to get here, but there's a lot to like in the first draft of the Cleveland Plan for Transforming Schools, which aims to turn around 13 failing schools…Read more...
Administrators at Elida Local Schools are running out of tricks when it comes to offering a quality educational experience on minimal funding…Read more...