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Education News for 01-10-2013

State Education News

  • Teacher education programs at public, private state colleges can now be compared (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • Prospective teachers, school superintendents and parents can now judge the quality of teacher education programs in Ohio's public and private colleges…Read more...

  • Secrecy to shroud school seclusion, restraint use under new state rules (Columbus Dispatch)
  • New state rules would require schools to keep records of how often and why educators place children in seclusion rooms or physically restrain them…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Casino money headed this way (Marion Star)
  • School districts are getting their first taste of casino-tax revenues, though this new revenue stream won’t be a windfall…Read more...

  • Newcomerstown schools' recycling drive helps beat budget crunch (New Philadelphia Times-)
  • Staff and teachers of Newcomerstown Exempted Village Schools have been earning free technology equipment by participating in the FundingFactory Recycling Program…Read more...

  • Scioto schools get $277,500 from Casino Tax (Portsmouth Daily Times)
  • The state of Ohio announced Wednesday nearly $38 million will go to Ohio schools…Read more...

Education News for 11-26-2012

State Education News

  • Many Ohio 3rd-graders at risk of failing (Chillicothe Gazette)
  • Thousands of Ohio third-graders face being held back in school if they can’t improve their reading proficiency by year’s end — and the problem could be even worse next year…Read more...

  • Schools critics open new front in seclusion-room fight (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Furthering its quest to end Columbus schools' use of seclusion rooms for disabled students, a state disability-rights group has filed a formal complaint against the district with the Ohio Department of Education…Read more...

  • Education conference reflects tough economy (Middletown Journal)
  • Local school administrators were among the nearly 10,000 education professionals who attended the 57th annual Ohio School Board Association Capital Conference and Trade Show last week in Columbus…Read more...

  • District’s financial recovery may take 5 years (Middletown Journal)
  • Members of the state-appointed Financial Planning and Supervision Commission said it will take three to five years before the effects of Monroe Schools’ passed levy will be seen…Read more...

  • State Educators Agree to Replace the OGT (WSYX)
  • State education leaders have agreed on a plan for replacing the Ohio Graduation Test with a nationally standardized college readiness test, such as the ACT, and 10 subject-area exams…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Schools in Singapore may provide lessons for educators here (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • Helen Williams knew little about Singapore before traveling there this spring to learn about its education system. What she had heard were the tales of people caned for minor offenses and stereotypes about Asian schools…Read more...

  • Pay freezes, cuts saving millions at local schools (Hamilton Journal-News)
  • Staff pay freezes have become the rule, rather than the exception, at Miami Valley public school districts…Read more...

Editorial

  • Cleveland-area school districts must work harder to keep children who move frequently from falling (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • Students who often change schools -- making them hard to track and harder to teach -- have long been a problem in many Ohio school systems…Read more...

  • Fair assessment (Columbus Dispatch)
  • As Ohio lawmakers work through this lame-duck session, one item on the hurry-up agenda demands attention: revamping the report cards…Read more...

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...

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  • 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...

Education News for 09-20-2012

State Education News

  • Little Miami to appeal state ruling on transfers (Cincinnati Enquirer)
  • The financially troubled Little Miami Schools will appeal a state board ruling that may clear the way for a portion of its Warren County district to transfer…Read more...

  • 37 state schools to brainstorm on saving (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Officials from all 37 Ohio public colleges and universities are to meet today to discuss how they can reduce costs to students and taxpayers and improve efficiencies…Read more...

  • District warned of fiscal emergency (Youngstown Vindicator)
  • Nearly 100 residents, teachers and other school employees packed Mathews High School cafeteria Wednesday evening to hear an Ohio Department of Education official warn about the consequences…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Revere reaches contract with workers (Akron Beacon Journal)
  • The Revere school board has reached a new contract with one of its unions…Read more...

  • CPS approves teacher evaluation system (Cincinnati Enquirer)
  • The Cincinnati school board Wednesday unanimously approved a new teacher evaluation policy that grades teachers on their students' academic growth…Read more...

  • Cleveland parents get lessons in truancy and curfew dangers (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • Missing curfew and being truant might seem like small violations, but if students aren't where they are supposed to be, they're more likely to be in a place where they'll get into trouble…Read more...

  • School building study discussed (Findlay Courier)
  • The Arcadia school board was given a homework assignment Wednesday to study an analysis of its school facilities…Read more...

  • Drug test program is for volunteers (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
  • The new voluntary random drug testing program at the high school provides students with one more avenue for saying no to drugs, Principal Mary Walker said…Read more...

Editorial

  • A flawed attempt at an in-school seclusion policy for Ohio (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • Thank goodness the Ohio Board of Education's first crack at outlining the appropriate use of restraints and seclusion to isolate troubled youngsters is just an ill-conceived draft…Read more...

  • Third-grade goal (Columbus Dispatch)
  • With a recent vote to set a cut-off score for Ohio’s new “third-grade reading guarantee,” the state Board of Education has drawn a reasonable line for determining which children are struggling…Read more...

Education News for 06-29-2012

State Education News

  • Schools air funding beefs during Ohio House hearings (Dispatch)
  • The spending-per-pupil statistic is often used to measure efficiency of school districts across Ohio, so when Chris Pfister saw that his small, low-income, rural district’s number was higher than those of other nearby schools, he scratched his head. Read more...

Local Issues

  • Attendance-record manager reassigned amid mess (Dispatch)
  • The man who was in charge of gathering and reporting Columbus City Schools’ state report-card data is being reassigned from the district’s data center to another job as the state moves in to investigate allegations of rigging student attendance numbers. There was no documentation to show that attendance changes were legitimate in 80 of 81 cases the district’s internal auditor reviewed. Steve Tankovich, the executive director of the Office of Accountability Systems, will be out of the district’s Kingswood Data Center by Thursday, Superintendent Gene Harris said yesterday. Read more...

  • Lorain Schools likely to face fiscal emergency even if levy passes (Elyria Chronicle)
  • The school district is expected to become insolvent and declare fiscal emergency this spring, triggering a state financial takeover even if a levy passes in November. “I won’t have the cash to finish out the year,” School Treasurer Dale Weber said after Thursday’s Board of Education meeting where board members closed out the 2011-12 school year. The district closed out the year with a nearly $91.8 million general fund budget. The 2012-13 budget is about $89.6 million. Read more...

  • Licking Heights, Southwest Licking districts plan to share food-service director (Newark Advocate)
  • Two local school districts plan on sharing a supervisor to drive down costs, starting this school year. Officials at one of the districts said the move could be the first of several partnerships aimed at saving money. Licking Heights Board of Education on June 26 approved a shared-services agreement with neighboring Southwest Licking Local Schools. The agreement, if approved tonight by the SWL board, will allow both districts to share Heights’ food service director, Ginger Parsons. Read more...

  • Ohio Legal Rights Service Drops Lawsuit Against Columbus City Schools (State Impact Ohio)
  • A state agency that advocates for the rights of disabled people has dropped its lawsuit against the Columbus school district in connection with the use of seclusion rooms. Seclusion rooms are small, often padded rooms where violent or aggressive students can be taken to calm down. Read more...

  • Ohio Schools Battling A Crisis (Wheeling News Register)
  • The blue-and-gold mascot of the Monroe Fighting Hornets was depicted on the school room wall, hovering over lists instructing children how to behave in the hallways, bathrooms and on the school bus. The hornet looked mad. Read more...

  • Harris supports delaying Columbus school levy vote (Dispatch)
  • With the Columbus school board set to vote on Monday on whether to seek a levy in November, Superintendent Gene Harris now says she supports waiting until 2013, she told board members by memo this afternoon. The decision threw Harris’ weight firmly behind a 14-member citizen millage committee, which has been meeting for months to decide whether the district should put a property-tax issue on the fall ballot. That panel voted 8-2 on Tuesday to delay a levy until next year. Read more...

  • Franklin County changes plan for disabled students (Dispatch)
  • The two schools operated by the Franklin County Board of Developmental Disabilities will start the 2014-15 school year with a new curriculum designed to help students ages 14 to 22 transition to adult services and jobs. Board members approved the restructuring plan last night. It effectively phases out school services for children 6 to 13 at both Northeast and West Central schools. Read more...

  • City schools avoid suit, hand over ‘seclusion room’ files (Dispatch)
  • A federal lawsuit to force Columbus schools to hand over records about its use of seclusion rooms has been dismissed because the district provided them. The Ohio Legal Rights Service, a state agency that works to protect people with disabilities, sued Columbus City Schools in March. The agency said the district was blocking its attempt to investigate whether children had been abused in the closetlike rooms. The agency sought the names and contact information of students who had been placed in seclusion rooms and records related to incidents that occurred in the rooms dating back to Jan. 1, 2011. Read more...

  • Closed Tallmadge school to find new life as private school (Beacon Journal)
  • TALLMADGE: Overdale Primary School, which closed in the spring of 2011 as part of budget cuts made by the Tallmadge school district, will hear little footsteps echoing in its halls again this fall. Stow-based Cornerstone Community School placed a top bid of $320,000 on the property last week, and the school board approved the sale. Read more...

  • Sponsor pulls plug on Academy of Excellence (Beacon Journal)
  • Former Akron Councilman Ernie Tarle’s Academy of Excellence charter school has lost its sponsor and won’t open this fall in Akron. Charters are publicly funded, privately operated schools that must have a state-approved sponsor to operate. Read more...