Education News for 08-06-2012

State Education News

  • Official Seeks Meeting About Ohio Schools Chief (Associated Press)
  • A member of the Ohio Board of Education called Friday for an emergency meeting to be set for the panel to address findings of wrongdoing against Superintendent Stan Heffner by the state watchdog. Read more...

  • Leader of Ohio schools resigns (Associated Press)
  • Ohio's top education official resigned Saturday amid ethics questions about his work for an educational testing contractor. Read more...

  • Ohio school chief quits (Cincinnati Enquirer)
  • Ohio’s top education leader announced his resignation Saturday, just two days after facing accusations of misconduct and ethics violations in office. Read more...

  • Ohio schools chief Stan Heffner resigns under fire for conflict (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • Ohio Schools Superintendent Stan Heffner resigned on Saturday, under fire after the state inspector general found he lobbied improperly for a private education company he planned to work for. Read more...

  • State schools superintendent resigns amid ethics fallout (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction Stan Heffner announced his resignation this afternoon amid the fallout accompanying an ethics scandal. Read more...

  • Schools’ rigging was on the wall (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Although the state auditor’s office and the Department of Education launched investigations this summer into potential data-rigging at school districts across Ohio, the warning lights have been flashing red for years. Read more...

  • School attendance manipulation called ‘unfathomable’ (Lima News)
  • LIMA — When Jill Ackerman found out about public schools throughout the state likely manipulating attendance records to boost standardized test score averages, she was shocked. Read more...

  • Locked Away: How Ohio Schools Misuse Seclusion Rooms (State Impact Ohio and Columbus Dispatch)
  • Some Ohio children with disabilities are regularly isolated in cell-like rooms, closets or old offices when they behave badly. Read more...

  • Locked Away: New Policy Would Limit Use of School Seclusion Rooms to Real Emergencies (State Impact Ohio and Columbus Dispatch)
  • A 17-year-old Ohio girl died in 2008 in a home for troubled children after her caretakers pinned her face-down on the floor. Read more...

Local Education News

  • CPS superintendent can stay in suburbs (Cincinnati Enquirer)
  • Cincinnati Public Schools superintendent Mary Ronan’s new three-year contract no longer requires that she live in the district… Read more...

  • Districts hope to cut cost by sharing subs (Cincinnati Enquirer)
  • A newly formed partnership between Butler and Warren counties’ Educational Service Centers, will allow 13 school districts to draw from a central pool of substitute teachers. Read more...

  • Investing in Ohio Schools (Columbus Dispatch)
  • There will be no more classes in the parking lot, no more mysterious walled of hallways. When 1,500 Licking County students return to Newark High School this month, most construction on their once disjointed campus will be complete. Read more...

  • School facilities commission continues past halfway point (Dayton Daily News)
  • The Ohio School Facilities Commission has reached the halfway point of its mission to upgrade school buildings throughout the state at a cost of more than $10 billion, but faces a future in which its source of funding is no longer clear. Read more...

  • Skill training is 'win-win' (Marion Star)
  • ...To make sure they can find people who possess the talents needed to fulfill the responsibilities assigned to them, employers do what they can to foster such skills in the prospective workforce. Read more...

Editorial

  • Marrison: We'll keep on digging into school records case (Columbus Dispatch)
  • The developing scandal over school-attendance records is growing more odd. And disappointing… Read more...

  • Don’t allow schools to cover it up (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
  • It has been said that the coverup is worse than the crime. Well, what about a coverup of a coverup? That may well be happening in one of Ohio's largest school districts. Read more...