State Education News

HB 555: What the New Ohio School Report Cards Could Look Like (State Impact Ohio)

Under a new, proposed school report-card system, Ohio schools would not get an overall grade on their performance for the next two school years,…Read more...

Nine schools held up for praise (Columbus Dispatch)

Photographs of smiling seniors at Eastmoor Academy fill boards Principal Alesia Gillison keeps on display at the high school on the East Side…Read more...

How High Poverty Schools Can Still Produce Excellent Students (State Impact Ohio)

Schools in high-poverty neighborhoods can produce excellent students, especially with the right leadership. At least that’s the finding of a new study commissioned by…Read more...

Local Education News

Lawyer denies he’s scaring school district witnesses (Columbus Dispatch)

A lawyer hired to help Columbus schools navigate their attendance-data scandal says he’s interviewing district employees in an “independent review of the facts.”…Read more...

2 principals suspended for not making abuse report (Columbus Dispatch)

Two Morrow County elementary-school principals were suspended after detectives found that they had not reported the possible sexual abuse of one of the school’s students…Read more...

Schools pay for parallel audit (Columbus Dispatch)

A lawyer hired to help Columbus schools navigate their attendance-data scandal says he’s interviewing district employees…Read more...

Schools faced with 2 options: Lorain looks at $3M loan or slipping into fiscal emergency (Lorain Morning Journal)

The Lorain City School District is weighing borrowing $3 million to finish out the school year, using its recently passed 4.8-mill levy as collateral, or allowing the district to slip in to fiscal emergency and get a no-interest loan from the state…Read more...

Millions spent annually on professional development to prepare for common core (Middletown Journal)

As Ohio’s educators prepare for the statewide roll-out of common teaching standards in 2014, school districts are spending millions of dollars annually on professional development…Read more...

Local charter school wins six-figure counseling grant (Springfield News-Sun)

When third-grade math scores plummeted and reading scores dropped last school year at the Springfield Academy of Excellence, Principal Edna Chapman realized that many of her 242 students have “exceptional needs that aren’t necessarily academic.” Read more...

Quarter of Youngstown's students attend charter school (Youngstown Vindicator)

A quarter of the students living within the city school district attend public charter shools…Read more...

Editorial

Duck watch (part 2) (Akron Beacon Journal)

The Ohio House Education Committee is conducting hearings this week on legislation to revamp the grading system for public schools and districts…Read more...

Deeper trouble (Columbus Dispatch)

The stakes in the already-alarming investigation of data-rigging in Columbus City Schools have been raised enormously…Read more...