State Education News

Teachers to pay more for pensions (Canton Repository)

By 2016, local teachers will have to contribute an additional four percent of their pay toward their pensions with the State Teachers…Read more...

BMI record-keeping no longer weighs on schools (Columbus Dispatch)

Ohio schools no longer have to gather students’ body-mass-index measurements — just two years after a state law required them to do…Read more...

State School Board candidate holds discussion in Lima (Lima News)

State School Board candidate and former Ohio State quarterback Stanley Jackson spoke and listened…Read more...

Hundreds of northeast Ohio school buses (WEWS)

Hundreds of school buses in the top ten largest school districts…Read more...

Local Education News

Erlanger after-school program may become model (Cincinnati Enquirer)

Principal Bryant Gillis pointed across the Tichenor Middle School cafeteria on Monday to a table of teens enjoying an after-school snack…Read more...

Administrators, others to pay toward health care benefits (Newark Advocate)

Starting at the end of the month, the Lakewood Local School District no longer will pay 100 percent of the health…Read more...

Area schools not playing with safety (Willoughby News Herald)

Playground safety is something that local schools take seriously…Read more...

School districts add handling of cyberbullying to their policies (Willoughby News Herald)

While Mentor Schools has been addressing the issue of cyber-bullying for some time, the district is just now in the process of updating its policy on paper…Read more...

Editorial

Saving by design (Akron Beacon Journal)

Ohio has seen a building boom in school facilities the past 15 years. Together, the state, school districts and local governments…Read more...

Cleveland avoided Chicago's school impasse (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Four days into a politically charged strike that has sent thousands of teachers to the picket lines and 350,000 students…Read more...

Student cheating (Columbus Dispatch)

The definition of cheating on a test was pretty clear-cut to most people who grew up in the old days…Read more...