Education News for 09-04-2012

State Education News

  • Reading law has holdouts (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Mike Johnson loathes the idea of holding students back. But next year, Johnson, the superintendent of Bexley schools…Read more...

  • Truancy rates in doubt (Columbus Dispatch)
  • The Cleveland school district wiped more than 1,700 students from its rolls in a single year for being chronic truants…Read more...

  • Early college credit not enough (Columbus Dispatch)
  • 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...

  • Kids late, lost as busing blunders abound (Columbus Dispatch)
  • 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...

  • Students able to make up calamity days at home (Dayton Daily News)
  • Fifteen area school districts in the Miami Valley, as well as a couple of private schools…Read more...

  • Law more stringent on elementary readers (Hamilton Journal-News)
  • The percentage of third graders held held from fourth grade could quadruple in some local school districts…Read more...

  • Extra-curriculars keep students engaged (Marion Star)
  • 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...

  • Local schools in attendance probe (Marion Star)
  • Government inspectors have been poring over student attendance records in school buildings across the state…Read more...

  • Area districts waiting out state report card delay (Middletown Journal)
  • 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...

  • Ohio sports fees are growing trend, cutting in to athletics programs (Newark Advocate)
  • 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...

  • Schools prepare for third-grade reading guarantee (Youngstown Vindicator)
  • 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...

  • Local Education News
    • Teach For America teachers start school year in local charter schools (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
    • The Village Prep charter school had openings for nine teachers this school year…Read more...

    • Football-concussion risk for middle-schoolers prompts protective moves (Columbus Dispatch)
    • Connor Laufenberg was a linebacker for his middle-school football team last fall when he took a hit that left him dizzy…Read more...

    • District let girl stay home for six weeks (Columbus Dispatch)
    • When Stacy Cox read her daughter’s report card from Columbus City Schools’ Marion- Franklin High School, it showed almost perfect attendance…Read more...

    • $2M deficit expect for Monroe schools at end of school year (Middletown Journal)
    • 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...

    • Engineering course offered at Franklin High School (Middletown Journal)
    • For the first time, the Franklin school district is offering a nationally recognized pre- engineering program at the high school…Read more...

    • Officer out of Monroe schools, again (Middletown Journal)
    • 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...

    • Report card scores discussed at PCSD (Portsmouth Daily Times)
    • Parents, community members, teachers, and school administrators gathered Wednesday morning for the Portsmouth City School District…Read more...

    • Ursuline leads Valley schools with 9 AP courses (Youngstown Vindicator)
    • Twelve seniors sit in a third-floor classroom at Ursuline High School discussing literature…Read more...

    • Youngstown School District | Defining partnerships (Youngstown Vindicator)
    • The city school district is trimming its large list of partnerships, bringing such support more in line with the needs of students…Read more...

  • Editorial
    • Drawing up a route to better Cleveland schools (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
    • 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...

    • Delaying state school district report cards is a necessity (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
    • The Ohio Board of Education wisely and unanimously decided recently to delay the release of critically important school district report cards…Read more...

    • Wrong watchdog )Columbus Dispatch)
    • The Ohio Department of Education’s request for more authority to monitor and investigate school districts data collection is premature…Read more...

    • Former school head should repay (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
    • ''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...