Education News for 10-29-2012

State Education News

  • Privilege issue stalls hearing in suit over schools’ private discussions (Columbus Dispatch)
  • After its in-house attorney told members of the Columbus Board of Education in July that they couldn’t hold private meetings to discuss an unfolding data-rigging investigation…Read more...

  • Ohio Attorney General honors Chardon High School shooting first responders (WEWS)
  • Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine honored a packed house…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Some of the best will help kids learn to read (Cincinnati Enquirer)
  • A who’s who list of local business leaders is about to kick off an early childhood literacy campaign that seeks support from every workplace in the region…Read more...

  • District changes evaluation process for top officials (Hamilton Journal-News)
  • Fairfield City Schools will change how it evaluates its treasurer and superintendent, giving those officials the first evaluations they’ve had in some time…Read more...

  • Charter school’s scores outperform Springfield’s (Springfield News-Sun)
  • Two of Springfield’s three charter schools fared worse than the city’s traditional public schools, and a third school outperformed Springfield City Schools…Read more...

  • $23M Pettisville school goes green in big way with building project (Toledo Blade)
  • Low emission and fuel-efficient cars get premium parking spots outside Pettisville’s new K- 12 school building…Read more...

  • T.J. Lane using rarely successful plea in Chardon shooting (Willoughby News Herald)
  • After Keith Ledeger killed custodian Peter Christopher and wounded three other adults at Wickliffe Middle School on Nov. 7, 1994…Read more...

  • Choffin school faces discipline issues after influx of Career Academy students (Youngstown Vindicator)
  • A teacher believes the addition of Career Academy students to Choffin Career and Technical Center is causing disruption for other students…Read more...

Editorial

  • Poor excuse (Columbus Dispatch)
  • The second round of state Auditor Dave Yost’s probe of attendance-record-keeping practices in Ohio schools reveals two important things…Read more...

  • Facing facts (Columbus Dispatch)
  • The bad news is that graduation rates have fallen for most Ohio high schools on the latest state report cards…Read more...

  • Local school districts dealing with huge financial challenges (Youngstown Vindicator)
  • Here’s a sobering reality about public education in Ohio that should open the eyes of voters in the Nov. 6 election…Read more...