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Education News for 05-013-2013

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State Education News

  • School boards to review 5-year forecasts (Chillicothe Gazette)

    • Taking a look ahead at the next five years is a common theme of area school board activity this week…Read more...

  • Cleveland school district, Cleveland Teachers Union revamp salary system (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • A tentative contract negotiated by the Cleveland school district and Cleveland Teachers Union throws out "step" raises based on years of experience…Read more...

  • City schools requiring password changes (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The Columbus school district soon will require employees to regularly change their passwords to access computerized student data…Read more...

  • Taxpayers will soon be able to go online to see how the state is spending money (Ohio Public Radio)

    • Taxpayers will soon be able to go online to see how the state is spending money. Ohio Public Radio’s Jo Ingles reports on a new database being developed by state leaders…Read more...

  • Charter schools in Youngstown need improvement (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • The chairwoman of the Youngstown Schools Academic Distress Commission is waging what she calls a one-woman crusade to ensure all students…Read more...

Local Education News

  • School officers take a hit in city budget (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • Cincinnati Public Schools officials were surprised by a proposal to remove police resource officers from schools and to put those officers on city streets to replace laid-off police officers…Read more...

  • Noxious ‘crush’ sites plague area high schools (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Like a digital sleepover game, the Twitter account encouraged Pickerington students to share a secret crush under the cover of online anonymity. And the first nine posts played along…Read more...

  • Charter school for troubled students calling it quits (Columbus Dispatch)

    • A Columbus charter school that serves troubled students in grades 6-9 will close at the end of this school year…Read more...

  • Wind Power Cuts Ohio Schools' Electric Bills (WBNS)

    • Two northwest Ohio school districts say wind power is reducing their electricity bills and adding new learning tools for math and science…Read more...

Education News for 07-16-2012

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Statewide Stories of the Day

  • New state law: Third graders must read to pass (Marion Star)

    • MARION - An educator will tell you that, until the third grade, a student learns to read. When that student reaches third grade, that's when the student reads to learn. A new law in Ohio adds another layer to that adage. A third-grader will have to read to pass. A compromise in Columbus postponed the full implementation of what's called the third-grade reading guarantee. Students entering third grade in 2013 will have to pass a threshold to be determined by the Ohio Board of Education. Read more...

  • Troubled tutoring service gets dismantled (Dayton Daily News)

    • A troubled tutoring program that drew allegations of fraud and mismanagement locally and across the state has been dismantled in favor of giving local school districts more control over providing help to struggling students in low-performing schools. The Ohio Department of Education revamped the federally-funded Supplemental Educational Services (SES) program as part of its waiver under No Child Left Behind. Individual school districts will now receive money through the program and be in charge of providing the necessary oversight. Read more...

Local Issues

  • Property owners pay to ‘settle’ schools’ tax-value appeals (Dispatch)

    • Property owners owe taxes to schools, parks, libraries, county agencies that protect children and help the developmentally disabled, and others. But what if they could cut a deal to pay just the schools and make part of the potential bill that they owe the others disappear? It’s happening more and more as businesses settle property-value disputes with a “direct payment” to a school district in return for the district dropping a case in which it claimed that a parcel’s appraised value was too low. Read more...

  • Talk about East Holmes schools over breakfast (Times Reporter)

    • BERLIN — Residents of the East Holmes Local School District are invited to join board members and administrators for breakfast and conversation about the schools during a series of meetings in the coming weeks. Residents will have the opportunity to share thoughts and concerns directly with the board and to have any questions answered. Meals will be paid for by the Citizens For East Holmes for any East Holmes resident willing to attend. “We want to talk about whatever they want to talk about,” said Superintendent Joe Edinger. Read more...

Editorial

  • Talk to kids about sexting (Houston Chronicle)

    • There was a time, not that long ago, when a young person's occasional minor lapses in judgment were treated mostly as private matters involving his or her parents, maybe school officials and perhaps a member of the clergy or other trusted counselor. No more. Technology has made many a young person's "What was I thinking!" moment a matter of public and unfortunate permanent record - before discretion and privacy concerns intervene. This is not brand-new. Read more...

This week in education cuts

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This weeks local news reports of education cuts from around the state.

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