State Education News

State auditor: School data system broken (Cincinnati Enquirer)

Ohio Auditor Dave Yost is expected to recommend multiple changes to the way school districts and the state report attendance data…Read more...

‘Hitler’ reference offensive (Columbus Dispatch)

The Anti-Defamation League is calling on Ohio School Board President Debe Terhar and other critics of gun-control legislation to stop referencing Adolf Hitler…Read more...

Galion ponders armed teachers (Mansfield News Journal)

Come February, Galion schools could be among the first in Ohio to discuss arming teachers after the tragic shooting in Connecticut…Read more...

Local Education News

Sycamore students follow passions, earn high school credits (Cincinnati Enquirer)

If you think high school is boring and irrelevant, you need to talk to Sycamore High School students Mitchell Bie and Matt Rickert…Read more...

Schools need to get online (Columbus Dispatch)

More online learning could be coming to a school near you, based on a meeting yesterday of Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman’s Education Commission, which is examining how to improve education in the city…Read more...

Washington-Nile School switches to natural gas (Portsmouth Daily Times)

The Washington-Nile Local School Board voted during their meeting…Read more...

Berea, Olmsted Falls schools exploring alternative approaches to keep kids safe (Sun Newspapers)

As a parent, Sarah Fox was amazed to learn her son’s school practices a lockdown drill that includes remaining in rooms, essentially hiding from an active shooter…Read more...

Still no response from CMSD on outrageous violence videos (WOIO)

Still no response from Cleveland Schools on outrageous videos of violence at John Adams High School. Two weeks and counting…Read more...

Editorial

This H-bomb is a dud (Columbus Dispatch)

State school-board President Debe Terhar, if she hasn’t given up social media entirely, likely is getting an education this week in what the Internet-savvy know as Godwin’s Law of Nazi Analogies…Read more...

Ms. Terhar must go (Toledo Blade)

State Board of Education President Debe Terhar apparently doesn’t have the decency or good sense to resign. So it falls to Gov. John Kasich to make that happen…Read more...