Statewide Education News
- Is Senior Year of High School a Waste of Time? (State Impact Ohio)
The Ohio Board of Regents and the Ohio Department of Education have teamed up to wipe out senioritis. Graduation season is upon us, but many high school seniors have been coasting for months. Ohio education officials hope to change that by revamping the senior year of high school and having students take college classes, do apprenticeships or get technical training. “We have to find a way to maximize the 12th– grade year,” said Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro on WCPN 90.3’s The Sound of Ideas this morning. Read More…
Local Issues
- Residents give input on future of Youngstown schools (Vindicator)
- Intermediate students 'on the move' this week with exams, exercise (Newark Advocate)
- Reynoldsburg schools pay $1.4 million to escape exotic investment (Dispatch)
- Schools will have a choice on ‘pink slime’ (Springfield News Sun)
- State may take over Monroe schools’ finances (Hamilton Journal News)
Conversations with small groups continue to gather opinions about the community’s aspirations for city schools. A town-hall meeting will be scheduled for late next month. Part of the academic-recovery plan for Youngstown schools adopted by the academic distress commission and approved by Stan Heffner, state superintendent of public instruction, calls for a community-engagement process “focused on increasing community expectations and aspirations by all students.” Read More…
Granville Intermediate School students are having an unusual week this week. It started with exercise, followed by several days of testing and finishes with more exercise.
And two worthy causes are attached to the latter event. This past Monday, every student in the building did some Zumba, a combination of dance and aerobic elements with some Latin choreography, martial arts and hip-hop. It was led by Zumba fitness instructor Pamela Conn, of Columbus. Read More…
The Reynoldsburg school district paid $1.4 million to terminate an interest-rate swap with a financially troubled European bank this year, the same step the New Albany district has taken to shed the exotic investment. The same investment adviser who placed the New Albany schools in a swap that they paid $6.2 million to terminate last month advised Reynoldsburg on its deal. Both deals were signed in 2007 and appear to have worked identically: Read More…
Starting next school year, districts won’t automatically get beef with the substance critics have called “pink slime.” And if districts get it, they’ll know it, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, because they’ll have to ask for it. Grocery chains like Kroger and fast food giants like McDonald’s have stopped serving beef with the product after a public outcry in March. The substance isn’t harmful, according to food scholars and government regulators. Read More…
The state could soon take over financial control of the Monroe School District. Officials with the Ohio Department of Education confirmed Tuesday that Monroe’s fiscal recovery plan was not accepted and they recommended to the state auditor’s office the district be placed into fiscal emergency, which would be a first for any Butler County school system. Read More…