Education News for 08-07-2012

State Education News

  • Heffner lost job over bill's provision (Cincinnati Enquirer)
  • Tucked in the 3,262 pages of last year’s state budget bill is a provision that cost state schools Superintendent Stan W. Heffner his job...Read more...

  • Ohio Superintendent Resigns Following Ethics Report (Education Week)
  • Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction Stan Heffner has announced his resignation following a report that identified his apparent conflict of interest...Read more...

  • Voters To Decide On School Issues (ONN)
  • On Tuesday, more than 30 school districts will be asking voters to pass levies. Special elections are being held in 31 counties across the state...Read more...

  • Ohio Dems decry lack of charges in scandal (Toledo Blade)
  • Democrats said Monday that Ohio's top education official should not be allowed to simply walk away from his job...Read more...

  • Back to School: New rules for lunch (WKYC)
  • For the first time in 15 years, school lunches are going to look and taste differently. New federal guidelines are now in effect for schools across the country...Read more...

  • Attendance data not likely to be rigged (Youngstown Vindicator)
  • While a statewide investigation examines data rigging in school attendance reporting, Mahoning Valley school officials believe safeguards are in place...Read more...

Local Education News

  • Dragonfly director resigns following release of ODE review (Canton Repository)
  • Brianne Bixby-Nightingale resigned Monday as executive director of Dragonfly Academy. The school’s board of directors accepted her resignation effective immediately, according to Ben Weisbuch, Dragonfly’s attorney...read more...

  • Getting the school year off to a healthy start (Springfield News-Sun)
  • Summer is winding down, and the school year is quickly approaching...Read more...

  • 11 Rossford school officials make concessions (Toledo Blade)
  • Administrators in the Rossford school district have volunteered to freeze their wages, pay more of the cost of their medical insurance, and forfeit a personal day for savings...Read more...

Editorial

  • Departure time (Akron Beacon Journal)
  • Stan Heffner quickly apologized “for my lack of judgment.” His words came in response to a report delivered Thursday by the state inspector general...Read more...

  • Youngstown schools district not off hook with resignation (Youngstown Vindicator)
  • Youngstown city schools of- ficials should not take comfort from the resignation of the state’s education chief, Stan Heffner, because the future of district ultimately rests with Republican Gov. John Kasich...Read more...