State Education News
- Department of Education to release report card ratings, performance indexes and attendance rates (Dayton Daily News)
- Former Monroe treasurer could lose license (Middletown Journal)
- Here’s Your Chance to Shape Ohio’s Seclusion and Restraint Policy (State Impact Ohio)
- Week Ahead: Report Card Data, State Board of Education Voters’ Guide and More (State Impact Ohio)
- TPS holds state’s 1st forum to boost parents’ interest (Toledo Blade)
The Ohio Department of Education is expected to release the 2011-12 report card ratings, performance indexes and attendance rates for local schools and districts on Wednesday, according to Ohio Acting Superintendent Michael Sawyers....Read more...
Former Monroe schools treasurer Kelley Thorpe could have her treasurer’s license revoked or suspended, pending a hearing before the State Board of Education, according to documents obtained by the Middletown Journal....Read more...
Seclusion rooms are enclosed spaces that are supposed to be used to calm or restrain children who become violent. Seclusion — and restraint, or physical force used to control a child — are often used for children with disabilities....Read more...
Wednesday: Ohio Department of Education to release the rest of the “preliminary” school report-card data, including school and district letter grades....Read more...
Believing that an active parent group can do more to improve conditions at a school than any reform, Toledo officials said they hope a forum Saturday at Bowsher High School will help boost parents’ involvement in the district....Read more...
Local Education News
- Ross County schools posting bullying incidents on their websites (Chillicothe Gazette)
- Cleveland school tax would have widely different costs in different neighborhoods (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Bluffton staff goes viral (Lima News)
- Transportation duties to be shared (Lisbon Morning Journal)
- Elgin milestone (Marion Star)
- Superintendent evaluation process varies (Middletown Journal)
- Avon Local Schools preliminary report card looks similar to last year (Sun Newpapers)
- School board likely to mull results, plan of action (This Week News)
- Licking Heights anticipates highest grade on official state report card (This Week News)
- Superintendents Are Retiring With Large Pension Plans (WCMH)
- Two Westlake elementary schools earn Blue Ribbon distinction (West Life)
- Youngstown students give up day off to learn lessons in teamwork (Youngstown Vindicator)
About a year after the Gazette first reported that five of Ross County's seven school districts had failed to comply with a 2007 state law requiring a summary of bullying incidents be posted on their websites, every district now is in full compliance....Read more...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland's proposed school tax would have very different costs in the district's diverse neighborhoods....Read more...
In a bit of a twist, it is time for the adults to be hip -- sort of. A group of Bluffton teachers and administrators have gone viral with their own music video...Read more...
LISBON - The school district intends to contract with the Columbiana County Educational Service Center to share transportation administration duties following the loss of Lisbon's bus supervisor....Read more...
MARION - Elgin Local Schools students, staff and supporters celebrated a milestone in the construction of a new K-12th grade building at a topping off ceremony Friday....Read more...
While Race to the Top and other education reform movements are putting an emphasis on teacher and principal evaluations, there is no uniform method for evaluating superintendents....Read more...
The Ohio Department of Education released preliminary School Report Card Data for the 2011-2012 school year late last month. The reports are not complete and the release of the official reports is running behind schedule, but the preliminary data shows...Read more...
Parents in the Johnstown-Monroe school district whose children attend nonpublic schools should have time to make other transportation arrangements if their child's route takes more than 30 minutes to complete....Read more...
Although official results haven't been released, Licking Heights Superintendent Philip Wagner said the district learned it likely will be graded "Excellent with Distinction" on the Ohio Department of Education's state report card....Read more...
In the last few months, five superintendents from some of the largest school districts in Central Ohio have decided to retire. They're taking hefty retirement packages and taxpayers are helping pay for them....Read more...
Kim Conley, principal of Hilliard Elementary School, said teachers and staff at her school are never satisfied with the status quo....Read more...
Youngstown Eighth grader Jarell Thompson wants to help other students who don’t fit in....Read more...
Editorial
- Toledo tax crapshoot: Natural seven or snake eyes? (Toledo Blade)
- Get Ohio school data cleared up (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
Lucky seven? We’ll find out soon. If you’ve looked at the fall ballot, you know that voters in the city and school district of...Read more...
A testy exchange between an Ohio Board of Education member and state Auditor Dave Yost last week helped make it clear serious problems exist in some of the state's largest school systems....Read more...