State Education News
- Ohio schools prepare for another budget hit (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- State may add schools for gifted (Columbus Dispatch)
- School rating plan minds achievement gaps (Columbus Dispatch)
- Schools' summer slide’ worse for poor kids (Dayton Daily News)
- Needy kids can get summer lunches (Dayton Daily News)
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Therese Konrad, who has taught in the Rocky River School District for 24 years, says her students always rise to the challenges she presents them. Read more...
Should Ohio have special schools for smart kids? Advocates for gifted students say a new proposal for regional schools would ensure the students have access to more rigorous courses and learning opportunities that keep Read more...
For years, Ohio educators have struggled to close the gaps. White students perform much better than their black and Latino peers in most of the state’s school districts. Poor students generally do worse than their wealthier Read more...
American students in grades one through nine reportedly lose one month of learning, on average, during a typical three-month summer break — which is often referred to as the “summer slide” — Read more...
Forty-five percent of Ohio children were eligible for free or reduced-priced lunches this past school year through the National School Lunch Program. Read more...
Local Education News
- Summer reading program combines major Summit County entities (Akron Beacon Journal)
- Private company disrupts status quo at South High, renews student (Columbus Dispatch)
- Tech-savvy South Range grads get age-old advice (Youngstown Vindicator)
- School board OKs placing 5.9-mill levy on Nov. ballot (Youngstown Vindicator)
Reading and exercise will be key parts of a summer reading program for adults and children at the Akron-Summit County Public Library. Read more...
There were classes, and there were sports. But there was little else at South High two years ago. The couple of lunchtime clubs barely attracted students’ attention. Read more...
The new high school is surrounded by wide-open spaces, split-rail fences, horses and cows. Read more...
POLAND The Poland board of education has agreed to place a five-year, 5.9-mill emergency operating levy on the Nov. 6 general-election ballot. Read more...
Editorial
- City teachers mistakenly dig in against proposed concessions: editorial (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Let Local Schools Make the Decisions (Wheeling Intelligencer)
- Legislating in Ohio for the kids -- yeah, sure: Brent Larkin (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Charter schools get short end of the funding stick (Columbus Dispatch)
- Don't punish the kids because they can't read (Columbus Dispatch)
It will take more than two to tango if the Cleveland schools hope to banish a looming $19 million deficit. Read more...
A federal program intended to help students doing poorly in school turned into a fiasco in Ohio. Now the state is doing what should have been done all along - Read more...
When it comes to charter schools, Republicans who control the Ohio House don't lie all the time. Only when their lips move. Read more...
The Sunday Dispatch article “Residents carry more school costs” highlighted the need for school districts to keep going back to the levy well to cover costs Read more...
To improve the teaching of reading, we’re now going to flunk third-graders that districts haven’t taught to read. Somehow, this latest magic bullet seems aimed more at the victims than the culprits. Read more...