State Education News

Group calls for charter crackdown (Cincinnati Enquirer)

A national group of charter school sponsors is challenging states to crack down on failing charter schools…Read more...

E-schools: Innovative niche or educational bust? (Cincinnati Enquirer)

The Hingsbergen family of Fairfield Township is an e-school family. Four of the five Hingsbergen children went to high school at Ohio Connections Academy, a statewide online charter school…Read more...

Could state-law fixes help city’s schools? (Columbus Dispatch)

A 20- to 30-person commission on improving Columbus City Schools will be appointed by Mayor Michael B. Coleman…Read more...

Five states to try more time in school (Columbus Dispatch)

Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public-school students is about to get quite a bit longer…Read more...

Local scores lower than state, higher than U.S. (Dayton Daily News)

Students at Miami Valley school districts scored slightly below the state average but solidly above the national mark on both the ACT and SAT, according to data for 2012…Read more...

Local superintendents weigh in on the replacing of Ohio Graduation Test (Willoughby News Herald)

High school students will be given more rigorous tests that are better aligned with their coursework beginning in 2014-15. The change is positive overall, but will require a bit of work to make the transition, according to local school officials…Read more...

Longer Days at School? (WJW)

Some 10 school districts in five states will add up to 300 hours to their calendars starting next fall. The effort, according to the New York Times, is to help underperforming students catch up on standardized tests…Read more...

Local Education News

20 mph speed limit may apply even after school day (Columbus Dispatch)

The flashing signals that now warn drivers to slow down in school zones at the beginning and end of the school day would also blink during sports games…Read more...

Loss of farm subsidy may have doomed levies (Dayton Daily News)

Increased taxes on farms and a call for money to build and maintain a new school were issues that apparently hampered this township’s 2.7-mills general funds levy that failed by 164 votes in the last election…Read more...

Online learning gains students (Mansfield News Journal)

Once the Internet reached critical mass in our society in the late 1990s, it wasn’t long before one industry after another began to feel its powerful effects…Read more...

State budget cuts run deep (Newark Advocate)

Street lights were turned off in Mansfield. Teachers were cut in Oak Harbor. The number of families assisted in Licking County was cut by 90 percent…Read more...

Chinese students flock to area schools (Toledo Blade)

Ruihan Hu didn’t buy the Marina District or the Docks, but she’s as much the face of a growing tie between Toledo and China as are the businessmen who made those high- profile deals…Read more...

Columbus Parent Files Lawsuit Against Schools Over 'Data Scrubbing' Investigation (WBNS)

A Columbus City Schools parent has filed lawsuit against the school district in connection with alleged data scrubbing. The parent, Marvin Perkins, is now hoping to make the lawsuit a class-action suit so other parents can join him in his fight…Read more...

9th Grade English Assignment Prompts Some Parents To Ask For Book Ban (WBNS)

An English assignment turned into controversy in one central Ohio school district. The book “The Perks Of Being A Wallflower” is billed as a coming-of-age novel…Read more...

School mobility linked to test scores (Youngstown Vindicator)

Student mobility — students who move into and out of school districts for reasons other than promotion — is higher in urban districts such as Youngstown, linking to lower test scores, according to a recent study…Read more...

Editorial

Grade acceleration (Akron Beacon Journal)

How much teaching and learning goes on in public schools is everybody’s business, and school rating…Read more...