State Education News
- Reading law has holdouts (Columbus Dispatch)
- Truancy rates in doubt (Columbus Dispatch)
- Early college credit not enough (Columbus Dispatch)
- Kids late, lost as busing blunders abound (Columbus Dispatch)
- Students able to make up calamity days at home (Dayton Daily News)
- Law more stringent on elementary readers (Hamilton Journal-News)
- Extra-curriculars keep students engaged (Marion Star)
- Local schools in attendance probe (Marion Star)
- Area districts waiting out state report card delay (Middletown Journal)
- Ohio sports fees are growing trend, cutting in to athletics programs (Newark Advocate)
- Schools prepare for third-grade reading guarantee (Youngstown Vindicator)
Mike Johnson loathes the idea of holding students back. But next year, Johnson, the superintendent of Bexley schools…Read more...
The Cleveland school district wiped more than 1,700 students from its rolls in a single year for being chronic truants…Read more...
Bryan Zake could have coasted in his senior year in high school. But he chose to get a head start on college by earning almost a year’s worth of classes at the University of Akron…Read more...
Some school buses have been late taking kids home, sometimes by a couple of hours. Children have been left at the wrong stop, far from home. Other buses never showed up…Read more...
Fifteen area school districts in the Miami Valley, as well as a couple of private schools…Read more...
The percentage of third graders held held from fourth grade could quadruple in some local school districts…Read more...
A national report claims to shed some light on why students are skipping school. Local school officials say they hear a variety of reasons as they try different ways to encourage students to attend…Read more...
Government inspectors have been poring over student attendance records in school buildings across the state…Read more...
The Ohio Board of Education’s delay in posting the state report cards has drawn mixed reactions from Middletown-area school districts. Some don’t mind the wait, while others would have preferred to be celebrating by now…Read more...
For an increasing number of Ohio families, students playing sports also means parents paying for sports. Participation fees, which can run into hundreds of dollars…Read more...
A law that takes full effect in the 2013-14 school year requires third-graders who aren’t reading at grade level to be held back another year…Read more...
- Teach For America teachers start school year in local charter schools (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Football-concussion risk for middle-schoolers prompts protective moves (Columbus Dispatch)
- District let girl stay home for six weeks (Columbus Dispatch)
- $2M deficit expect for Monroe schools at end of school year (Middletown Journal)
- Engineering course offered at Franklin High School (Middletown Journal)
- Officer out of Monroe schools, again (Middletown Journal)
- Report card scores discussed at PCSD (Portsmouth Daily Times)
- Ursuline leads Valley schools with 9 AP courses (Youngstown Vindicator)
- Youngstown School District | Defining partnerships (Youngstown Vindicator)
The Village Prep charter school had openings for nine teachers this school year…Read more...
Connor Laufenberg was a linebacker for his middle-school football team last fall when he took a hit that left him dizzy…Read more...
When Stacy Cox read her daughter’s report card from Columbus City Schools’ Marion- Franklin High School, it showed almost perfect attendance…Read more...
Monroe Local Schools will finish with a $2 million operating deficit at the end of the school year if no new revenue is brought into the district, according to treasurer Holly Cahall…Read more...
For the first time, the Franklin school district is offering a nationally recognized pre- engineering program at the high school…Read more...
Monroe School District is once again without a school resource officer. City Council decided to reinstate a school resource officer for the first two weeks…Read more...
Parents, community members, teachers, and school administrators gathered Wednesday morning for the Portsmouth City School District…Read more...
Twelve seniors sit in a third-floor classroom at Ursuline High School discussing literature…Read more...
The city school district is trimming its large list of partnerships, bringing such support more in line with the needs of students…Read more...
- Drawing up a route to better Cleveland schools (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Delaying state school district report cards is a necessity (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Wrong watchdog )Columbus Dispatch)
- Former school head should repay (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
The Cleveland School District seems to know what it wants to be in the near future -- an effective system where more students attend…Read more...
The Ohio Board of Education wisely and unanimously decided recently to delay the release of critically important school district report cards…Read more...
The Ohio Department of Education’s request for more authority to monitor and investigate school districts data collection is premature…Read more...
''I just didn't know how else to do it,'' former Ohio state school Superintendent Stan Heffner told investigators looking into the scandal that forced him to resign earlier this summer…Read more...