State Education News
- State might delay planned letter grades for schools (Columbus Dispatch)
- Project targeting school violence (Findlay Courier)
- Nearly 40 Ohio School Districts Plan to Apply for $400-Million (State Impact Ohio)
Plans to create a new rating system for Ohio schools should be delayed until the investigation into whether districts altered attendance data…Read more...
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/09/07/state-might-delay-planned-letter-grades- for-schools.html
Findlay City Schools and seven Hancock County schools have begun a project to prevent one of the biggest threats to students today: school violence…Read more...
Thirty-nine Ohio school districts, charter schools and other groups have said they plan to apply for some of the $400 million the federal U.S. Department of Education…Read more...
Local Education News
- Columbus City Schools’ closed meetings questioned (Columbus Dispatch)
- Teen sentenced to four years for bomb threat to Lima schools (Lima News)
- Johnstown bus route timing set to begin (Newark Advocate)
- Teaching the teachers (People's Defender)
The Columbus Board of Education and other district officials have gone into super-secret mode since news broke in June that employees…Read more...
Lima Schools Superintendent Jill Ackerman said Thursday the four-year sentence a teenager received in adult prison for calling in a false bomb threat…Read more...
Johnstown-Monroe Local Schools will begin timing the routes it uses to take students to private schools next week…Read more...
Agricultural education and science teachers from Ohio comprehensive high schools and career technical schools recently participated in the first-ever Ohio Ag-Biotechnology Academy…Read more...
Editorial
- A privilege to help (Columbus Dispatch)
- District ready for state education reforms (This Week News)
Any parent who has ever gone back-to-school shopping knows how picky kids can be: Shoes and outfits have to be just right. It’s all about looking good and fitting in…Read more...
Ohio's education system is experiencing an unprecedented number of proposed and soon to be implemented reforms. Our district welcomes tougher academic standards and higher expectations…Read more...