State Education News
- State budget’s unknowns frighten advocates (Columbus Dispatch)
- Democrats want state school-board head out over Facebook post (Columbus Dispatch)
- Columbus school board decides to assist review by mayor’s panel (Columbus Dispatch)
Faced with a “poker-faced” Kasich administration that won’t divulge new budget details until Feb. 4, a coalition of critics yesterday took a stab at things…Read more...
The head of the Ohio Democratic Party yesterday called for the resignation of Ohio Board of Education President Debe Terhar for a Facebook posting that appeared to compare…Read more...
The Columbus Board of Education relented last night and decided to allow Mayor Michael B. Coleman’s Education Commission to conduct a management review of district non- academic operations — and without a written agreement…Read more...
Local Education News
- Referee will intervene in duct-taped students case (Canton Repository)
- After-school program takes holistic approach Chillicothe Gazette)
- Schools sweat out decision to delay start due to cold (Columbus Dispatch)
- Bexley mayor rejects speed traps, student tax ideas (Columbus Dispatch)
- Finalists make pitch to RV public (Marion Star)
- TPS won’t place levy renewal on spring ballot; Board cites too little time to mount solid campaign (Toledo Blade)
- Youngstown school board discusses money woes (Youngstown Vindicator)
A referee is going to hear the case of a northeast Ohio teacher who may be fired over an allegation that she posted a Facebook photo of her students with their mouths covered with duct tape…Read more...
When the last school bell rings, things are just getting started at the Salvation Army’s after- school program…Read more...
The decision to delay classes at Canal Winchester schools in yesterday’s frigid weather wasn’t an easy one, Superintendent Jim Sotlar said…Read more...
Bexley’s mayor opposes the use of speed cameras and taxing students to help the city offset projected losses in state funding, both ideas proposed by a citizens group to raise new revenue…Read more...
River Valley Local Schools gave the public a chance Tuesday evening to meet the finalists as it prepares to choose the district’s next superintendent…Read more...
A Toledo Public Schools levy renewal won’t be on the May ballot after all. The Toledo Board of Education was set to vote Tuesday on a board finance committee recommendation…Read more...
Schools Superintendent Connie Hathorn is meeting with his staff to devise recommendations to address a projected $48 million deficit by fiscal year 2017…Read more...
Editorial
- Uneasy money (Akron Beacon Journal)
Ohio schools will receive $38 million from the first distribution of the state’s tax on casino gambling. Have they hit the jackpot? Hardly. The amount boils down to about $21 per pupil…Read more...