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Education News for 01-30-2013

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State Education News

  • Educators speculate on Kasich’s budget plans (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Every school district in Ohio is waiting to hear Gov. John Kasich’s plan for school funding, to be unveiled on Thursday..Read more…

Local Education News

  • Columbus schools seek public input on new superintendent (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The Columbus City Schools are inviting members of the public to weigh in on what they want in a new superintendent at a series of regional “focus groups” starting next week...Read more…

  • School worker now at home (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

    • WARREN - A city school district employee charged earlier this month with carrying a concealed weapon was placed on home assignment pending the outcome of an investigation...Read more…

  • Shared services with Hubbard may end in Liberty (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • A shared-services agreement between adjoining school districts soon may end...Read more…

Editorial

  • Take a close look at attendance (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

    • Officials in some of Ohio's biggest school districts, including Columbus, were caught lying about student attendance numbers last year. They were inflated to make the school systems appear to be doing a better job than actually was the case...Read more…

Education News for 11-20-2012

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State Education News

  • School levy failure won’t stop drug testing (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Despite a failed tax levy that could lead to more cuts, the North Fork school district is reinstating its drug-testing program…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Audit cited in board members' defeat (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • The fallout from the state audit of the Mason County School District continues with the defeat of two Board of Education members in the Nov. 7 election and the near-loss of a third member to a write-in candidate…Read more...

  • Cleveland City Council seeks tougher penalties for failing to stop for school bus (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • Ten days after a Cleveland municipal judge ordered a woman to stand in public with a sign labeling herself an “idiot” for driving on a sidewalk to avoid a stopped school bus…Read more...

  • Highland Schools: No charges for not reporting sexual misconduct (Columbus Dispatch)

    • No charges will be filed against two Morrow County elementary-school principals and one teacher who had been under investigation…Read more...

  • Elida board soon to decide on levy, cuts (Lima News)

    • The next couple of months will be full of tough decisions for the Elida school board. After the levy defeat earlier this month, the board now faces decisions on going back to voters and what to cut from its budget…Read more...

  • Warren board discusses unanticipated tax bill (Marietta Times)

    • The granted appeal of a tax bill from several years ago has cost the Warren Local school district more than $160,000…Read more...

  • Conotton Valley cuts music program (New Philadelphia Times)

    • The Conotton Valley Union School Board made the first of what may be several budget cuts…Read more...

  • Auburn Career Center focuses on community outreach, opens welding lab (Willoughby News Herald)

    • At Monday's ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new welding lab, educators with Auburn Career Center also unveiled the new strategic plan for the center…Read more...

Editorial

  • On the money (Columbus Dispatch)

    • As other major American cities struggle to provide the basic services, Columbus is fortunate to have leadership that has locked down expenses and is able to propose a 2013 budget that invests in improving neighborhoods, strengthening safety forces…Read more...

  • Example exists for grad rates (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

    • Among nine schools the Ohio Department of Education is holding up as models of success under trying circumstances is East Garfield Elementary in Steubenville…Read more...

Education News for 09-27-2012

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State Education News

  • More high schools teaching personal finance (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • Dozens of Ohio high schools are moving closer to complying with the state mandate to teach personal finance…Read more...

  • Schools that wiped out data the most take academic dive (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The Columbus schools that deleted the most student attendance records last year posted dramatic academic declines…Read more...

  • Report on TPS generally poor (Toledo Blade)

    • The Ohio Department of Education released a pared-down version of school report cards on Wednesday, withholding some of the most illuminating information while a statewide investigation…Read more...

  • Report cards incomplete (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

    • Based on preliminary report card data that the state released Wednesday, Warren City Schools are among those celebrating…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Akron, other Ohio urban school districts target attendance data system (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • Ohio’s eight largest big-city school districts say they have experienced numerous problems understanding…Read more...

  • Graduation rates fall on state's new Report (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • Graduation rates have plunged almost across the board at school districts in Southwest Ohio…Read more...

  • Some school districts may slip in ratings (Dayton Daily News)

    • A Dayton Daily News analysis of the incomplete 2011-12 state report cards released…Read more...

  • Bristol BOE OKs 3-year contract (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

    • The Bristol Board of Education on Wednesday approved a three-year contract with the district's employees…Read more...

  • CEO of Cleveland Schools expected to address "F" grade at State of Schools Address (WEWS)

    • CEO of Cleveland Schools Eric Gordon will host the State of Schools…Read more...

  • Cardinal School District facing fiscal emergency (Willoughby News Herald)

    • The outcome of a five-year 9.7-mill renewal levy in the Nov. 6 election will determine whether the Cardinal Local School District will be placed in a state of fiscal watch or emergency…Read more...

  • Incomplete Ohio report cards show few Valley changes (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • Youngstown City Schools remain in academic watch, narrowly missing a continuous improvement designation…Read more...

Editorial

  • Booster rules, Court merger (Findlay Courier)

    • Sports and band booster clubs, and parent teacher organizations, serve an important function by aiding students…Read more...

Some Choice

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ODE has just released their partial school report card. It doesn't contain any final grades, but it does tell us whether schools made adequate yearly progress, and the news isn't pretty for Ohio's charter school movement.

Of the 352 charter schools listed, 58.2% of them failed to meet their adequate yearly progress (AYP) metrics.

If a student attends a school in any of Allen, Warren, Erie, Hancock, Lake, Madison, or Tuscarawas counties, not a single charter school made adequate yearly progress. Indeed, out of the 36 counties that have charter schools, 24 counties had schools that combined for more than half their charters failing to meet their adequate yearly progress.

County Not Met AYP Met AYP
Allen 100.0% 0.0%
Warren 100.0% 0.0%
Erie 100.0% 0.0%
Hancock 100.0% 0.0%
Lake 100.0% 0.0%
Madison 100.0% 0.0%
Tuscarawas 100.0% 0.0%
Stark 83.3% 16.7%
Trumbull 75.0% 25.0%
Summit 73.3% 26.7%
Montgomery 72.4% 27.6%
Mahoning 71.4% 28.6%
Hamilton 67.9% 32.1%
Richland 66.7% 33.3%
Clark 66.7% 33.3%
Fairfield 66.7% 33.3%
Morrow 66.7% 33.3%
Franklin 65.3% 34.7%
Butler 60.0% 40.0%
Lucas 58.8% 41.2%
Lorain 54.5% 45.5%
Marion 50.0% 50.0%
Columbiana 50.0% 50.0%
Greene 50.0% 50.0%
Cuyahoga 42.0% 58.0%
Portage 40.0% 60.0%
Licking 25.0% 75.0%
Muskingum 25.0% 75.0%
Seneca 25.0% 75.0%
Champaign 0.0% 100.0%
Wayne 0.0% 100.0%
Scioto 0.0% 100.0%
Coshocton 0.0% 100.0%
Hardin 0.0% 100.0%
Jackson 0.0% 100.0%
Van Wert 0.0% 100.0%
Grand Total 58.2% 41.8%

There's a lot of students in a lot of schools, in a lot of counties not being served by the "choices" they are being presented with.

Education News for 09-18-2012

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State Education News

  • State to review deal in audit (Columbus Dispatch)

    • School officials changed their minds about hiring state auditors to examine an exotic financial deal in the New Albany-Plain district…Read more

  • Area high school students in college classes has doubled in past five years (Hamilton Journal-News)

    • Students who take college courses while in high school are expected to increase dramatically in the next decade, education experts say…Read more

  • State to talk about money at Mathews (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

    • Ohio Department of Education representatives are scheduled to visit Mathews Schools officials on Wednesday to discuss the district's finances…Read more

Local Education News

  • North Fork fills vacant position after tight vote (Newark Advocate)

    • The North Fork Board of Education approved a Columbus administrator as its new activities director and assistant principal…Read more

  • Driving the point home (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

    • It's one thing for an adult, including a law enforcement officer, to talk to teens about the importance of safe driving…Read more

  • Former Northland High School Athletic Director Admits To Stealing Thousands (WBNS)

    • The former athletic director at Northland High School pleaded guilty to theft in office. Ramani Hunter was sentenced to a six-month suspended sentence if she follows all the rules during a year of court…Read more

  • Columbus Schools Face Lawsuit Over Planned Renovation Project (WBNS)

    • Columbus City Schools is facing a $41 million lawsuit over its renovation project at Indianola Middle School…Read more

  • Board member calls for sup’t to resign (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • An emotionally charged email from school-board member Harold Porter calls for the resignation of Superintendent Vince Colaluca. Porter, who was elected to the board in November 2011, sent the email to Colaluca and other school-board members…Read more

Education News for 09-06-2012

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State Education News

  • First day of school busing accomplished quietly (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Busing, the remedy for decades of intentional segregation in the Columbus school district, began peacefully on Sept. 6, 1979…Read more...

  • Pickerington school district increases background checks (Columbus Dispatch)

    • A new policy that went into effect this school year requires volunteers who have unsupervised contact with Pickerington…Read more...

  • Schools money dispute still unresolved (Newark Advocate)

    • Licking Heights Local Schools still contends neighboring Reynoldsburg City Schools is withholding more than a million dollars in tax revenues from the district…Read more...

  • New policy allows Granville students to bring own technology to class (Newark Advocate)

    • Given the widespread use of iPhones, iPads and laptops among young people, it was only a matter of time…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Hartville, Lake schools settle annexation issue (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • The Lake High School complex would be annexed to Hartville as part of the settlement of a lawsuit the village filed against the school board…Read more...

  • Westerville levy repeal scrubbed from ballot (Columbus Dispatch)

    • A request to roll back a Westerville schools tax was tossed from the fall ballot yesterday by the Franklin County Board of Elections. All three board members at the meeting agreed to remove the issue after hearing legal arguments from both sides…Read more...

  • Utica High School students embrace iPads (Newark Advocate)

    • Students in Charles Smith's physical science classes won't just turn in paper lab reports anymore…Read more...

  • School districts seek grants to study shared services (Newark Advocate)

    • Both of the city's school districts on Tuesday approved separate resolutions agreeing to collaborate in an effort to reduce expenses…Read more...

  • Hands-on civics lesson (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

    • Nothing else is as important - next to being born or dying - as voting, explained Trumbull County Board of Elections…Read more...

Editorial

  • Thin blurred line (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • John Kasich is preparing to unveil a long-delayed new school funding model to address what he considers a key flaw: an imbalance in school spending…Read more...

  • School cheaters committed fraud (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

    • Ohio's public school cheating scandal - by administrators, not students or teachers - may be worse than previously thought…Read more...