State Education News
- No charges for former leader of Ohio schools (Columbus Dispatch)
- SAT reading score hits 40-year low (Columbus Dispatch)
- Booster clubs funds face state scrutiny (Dayton Daily News)
- Attendance records being examined at 6 schools (Dayton Daily News)
- Five-year-olds put to the test as kindergarten exams (Reuters)
Prosecutors won’t press criminal charges against former state schools Superintendent Stan Heffner…Read more...
Reading scores on the SAT for the high-school class of 2012 reached a four-decade low, putting a punctuation mark on a gradual decline…Read more...
School booster and parent teacher organizations are about to come under increased scrutiny from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office…Read more...
State auditors are examining student attendance records in six Miami Valley school districts as part of a statewide probe into possible data tampering…Read more...
With school in full swing across the United States, the littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner…Read more...
Op/Ed
- What It Means to 'Believe in Teachers' (Education Week)
Last month, in his much-lauded speech to the Republican National Convention, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made "we believe in teachers"…Read more...
Local Education News
- School board takes next step toward busing pact with city (Chillicothe Gazette)
- Dublin teachers forgo some pay hikes (Columbus Dispatch)
- State report card ranking may drop (Findlay Courier)
- In Cincinnati, orchestrated academic support boosts students from cradle to career (NBC News.com)
- Mathews seeks levy to avoid projected deficit (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
The board approved an agreement with the Ohio Department of Development for a Local Government Innovation Fund grant that will pay for environmental site studies…Read more...
Dublin teachers and school administrators are giving up base-salary raises for next school year but will continue to receive step increases…Read more...
Findlay City Schools will most likely lose its "excellent" rating and instead earn a lesser "effective" rating on the state-issued report card…Read more...
Eight-month-old Calvin Boggs Jr., grinned when social worker Heidi Sullivan pulled a cardboard book emblazoned with the face of the character Thomas the Tank Engine out of her bag…Read more...
Mathews Board of Education is asking voters for a new five-year, 4.65-mill levy district officials said is needed to help avoid a projected deficit…Read more...