State Education News
- Cuyahoga Heights schools' former employee stole almost $4.2 million, state auditor says (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Cheating shows charters, testing failed, author says (Columbus Dispatch)
- State finally releases school and district grades (Columbus Dispatch)
- Online academy takes learning beyond school day (Hamilton Journal-News)
- Schools have a role in shaping healthy habits (Newark Advocate)
Nearly $4.2 million was stolen from the Cuyahoga Heights school district by its former technology director…Read more...
School cheating scandals aimed at improving high-stakes student-proficiency test results are a symptom of a failed reform plan that is wasting billions of dollars…Read more...
The Ohio Department of Education released school and district grades for the 2011-12 academic year today, a couple of months late…Read more...
An online school is expanding Hamilton students’ technology knowledge and helping teachers provide more specific remediation…Read more...
Jane Krueger’s class at John Clem Elementary School looked more like a school dance than a physical education class as students grooved to the beat…Read more...
Local Education News
- Columbus City Schools: Schools treasurer urges $25M in cuts (Columbus Dispatch)
- Northridge good now, could be in debt in 2015 (Newark Advocate)
- TPS drops to academic watch on report card (Toledo Blade)
Columbus City Schools need to cut $25 million from next school year’s budget or risk running out of money, Treasurer Penny Rucker warned school board members last night…Read more...
The Northridge Local School District is expected to be in the black until 2015, but the district likely will need levy funding to avoid a deficit in three years…Read more...
Toledo Public Schools lost its continuous improvement ranking on Ohio school report cards and slipped into academic watch…Read more...
Editorial
- Ohio schools should have their own EpiPens (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Classroom crime (Columbus Dispatch)
The Ohio Association of School Nurses is busy writing what it hopes will be lifesaving legislation -- a bill that would require schools…Read more...
A scandal that landed a former Texas school superintendent in prison — for arranging for test scores of low-performing students to disappear from his district’s records — shows the gravity of the alleged data rigging…Read more...