State Education News
- Scandal may delay report cards (Columbus Dispatch)
- Schools asked to self-report data scrubbing (Columbus Dispatch)
- School year starts with career/college push (Marion Star)
- Grading scales not level at area schools (Middletown Journal)
- Cities, schools try new investment program (New Philadelphia Times)
- Schools combat hunger through free and reduced lunch programs (New Philadelphia Times)
- Former Ohio superintendent dined with testing VIP (New Philadelphia Times)
- Schools work to meet reading guarantee (Springfield News-Sun)
Ohio should delay the release of this year’s school-district report cards, the president of the State Board of Education says...Read more...
State Auditor Dave Yost urged Ohio schools this week to voluntarily disclose whether they’re falsifying their student-attendance data...Read more...
Educators are identifying communication and attendance as skills in need as students head back into the classrooms...Read more...
When it comes to grading scales, the “playing field” isn’t the same for students at area school districts...Read more...
More than 60 Ohio school districts, cities and local governments are taking part in a new state program that can triple the yield on their taxpayer investments...Read more...
There are 4,325 children living in poverty in Tuscarawas County, enough to fill the Performing Arts Center at Kent State TuscarawasRead more...
Stan Heffner celebrated his new $180,000 private sector job over $10 cocktails, escargot, and oysters at San Antonio’s swanky Tost Bistro Bar in the spring of 2011...Read more...
A new law that requires some students to repeat the third grade if they are not reading on target will force local schools to communicate more with parents...Read more...
Local Education News
- New leaders discuss plans for five area school districts (Canton Repository )
- Harris aims criticism at wrong target (Columbus Dispatch)
- Columbus City Schools: Deleted absences 7% of all records (Columbus Dispatch)
- Columbus schools to pay $6 million to suburban districts over tax-sharing errors (Columbus Dispatch)
- Training in soft skills starts early (Marion Star)
- School lunches will be healthier this year (New Philadelphia Times)
- Clevelanders say NO to school levy (WEWS)
Four local school districts have brand new superintendents this school year, along with Canton City’s Chris Smith, who is beginning...Read more...
Gene Harris met with her principals about 10 days ago to get them ready for the start of school. “It’s been a tough summer,” the superintendent began...Read more...
Columbus Superintendent Gene Harris has said her school district’s attendance-cheating scandal needs context...Read more...
The Columbus school district plans to pay a group of suburban schools almost $6 million over three years to make up for billing errors the district made in the Win-Win agreement...Read more...
As industries and educators push soft skills, elementary educators are starting the discussion as early as kindergarten with a program called The Leader in Me...Read more...
School cafeterias and menus in Tuscarawas County are getting a makeover in a strong step to combat childhood obesity. When school opens this week in most local districts...Read more...
Just say no. Just say no," was what Kimberly Brown and several others chanted together...Read more...
Editorial
- Valedictorian, you're retired (Chicago Tribune)
- Image makeover (Columbus Dispatch)
Quick: Do you remember your high school valedictorian? Chances are, you actually do. You also may recall the long, rambling speech at graduation...Read more...
The Columbus Board of Education is right to be worried about how the public views the school district, but its first step to make the district look better should be investigating and fixing its serious problems...Read more...