State Education News

Probe: Kids wrongly put in seclusion (Columbus Dispatch)

The Columbus school district has used its seclusion rooms — some as small as a closet, some reeking of urine or covered in spit…Read more...

Area high schoolers learn financial responsibility (Lima News)

Most area high schoolers don’t think about retirement, buying a house or managing a mortgage on a daily basis, if at all…Read more...

Mansfield case may have triggered state's new booster club law (Mansfield News Journal)

Mansfield City Schools Superintendent Dan Freund applauds a new law authorizing the Ohio Attorney General's…Read more...

State report cards provide school districts with targets (Youngstown Vindicator)

Report card day has traditionally been a happy day for some kids and a day of trepidation…Read more...

Local Education News

CPS is part of ongoing audit (Cincinnati Enquirer)

A statewide attendance-rigging investigation includes schools in the Cincinnati Public Schools district…Read more...

Chief Eric Gordon: 'It's do or die time' for district (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

The Cleveland schools are in a position to greatly improve the education of the city's children…Read more...

City schools to hire 2 bus companies (Columbus Dispatch)

The Columbus school district plans to spend $400,000 to hire two more school-bus companies for 60 days…Read more...

Sizing up the schools (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

Niles City Schools Superintendent Mark Robinson said that although he's not pleased with his district's…Read more...

Parents in Cleveland and across Ohio have choices (WEWS)

For parents of children in under-performing schools in Ohio…Read more...

Editorial

Nasty surprise (Akron Beacon Journal)

The Akron school district has to refund all at once $3.2 million, most of it payments it should not have received from tax increment deals…Read more...

Worth a look (Columbus Dispatch)

Foster care never is an ideal solution, especially for the long term. Frightened children whose homes are in crisis are sent to stay with strangers…Read more...