State Education News
- Rich, growing school districts do well under governor’s funding proposal (Akron Beacon Journal)
- Plan means no funding growth for most schools (Chillicothe Gazette)
- Kasich details educational funding (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- Susan Zelman hired by the Ohio Department of Education to work on school funding (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Most schools to get no additional funds in Kasich plan (Columbus Dispatch)
- Kasich funding formula favors suburban schools; TPS, other urban districts, mostly flat under (Toledo Blade)
Gov. John Kasich’s office rolled out spreadsheets Wednesday showing how much money school districts will receive under his new funding formula…Read more...
Gov. John Kasich’s school funding plan dramatically changes the state funding formula for districts, but most Ohio schools would see no new money under the proposal…Read more...
Most Southwest Ohio school districts were breathing sighs of relief Wednesday after Gov. John Kasich’s office released detailed funding amounts for each district…Read more...
Susan Zelman, who was state superintendent for 10 years, has returned to the Ohio Department of Education to work with schools on funding issues…Read more...
Sixty percent of Ohio school districts — including all those in Perry County, where the state’s long-running school-funding lawsuit originated — would get no additional state money in the next two years under Gov. John Kasich’s education plan…Read more...
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Preliminary breakdowns of how Gov. John Kasich’s new school-funding formula will affect school districts show that growing, relatively wealthier suburban districts in metro Toledo will receive significant increases…Read more...
Local Education News
- CPS evaluation policy remains unresolved (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- Northeast Ohio schools get first look at what new state funding formula may mean to them (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Second lawsuit filed in data-rigging case (Columbus Dispatch)
- Lakota maintains high return on investment (Hamilton Journal-News)
- Online Teacher Fired For Paying Former Student To Teach Class, Grade (WBNS)
- Liberty hires county's treasurer services (Youngstown Vindicator)
- Boardman, Lordstown get largest increases in Kasich’s budget plan (Youngstown Vindicator)
After months of discussion and several heated meetings with representatives from the teachers’ union, Cincinnati’s school board Monday voted 4-3 to delay a vote on a new controversial policy to evaluate its roughly 2,000 teachers.…Read more...
School officials across Ohio have gotten their first peek at how much state money they might get over the next two years from Gov. John Kasich's proposed funding formula…Read more...
Another parent has sued several current and former Columbus school district leaders, saying the district’s “pattern of corrupt activity” has hurt his daughter…Read more...
An independent compensation study reveals the Lakota school district is spending less and getting more…Read more...
The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, or ECOT, isn’t a traditional public school, but like all public schools, classes are supposed to be taught by licensed teachers.Read more...
The school board has approved using staff at the Trumbull County Educational Service Center as the district’s interim treasurer for the remainder of the school year…Read more...
While no Mahoning Valley school districts would get less state money in Gov. John Kasich’s proposed biennium budget, most wouldn’t get any more either…Read more...
Editorial
- School budget (Findlay Courier)
- Gov. Kasich’s budget (Toledo Blade)
- Kasich plan for schools sounds good (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
It will take some serious number-crunching and time before we know if Gov. John Kasich's school funding formula is any better than the current one, which was ruled unconstitutional in 1997…Read more...
The state budget that Gov. John Kasich proposed on Monday reflects a healthier Ohio economy than the one his first, austere spending plan responded to two years ago…Read more...
Reports last week that Gov. John Kasich wants to provide additional state help to school districts with meager property tax bases no doubt was received happily by some area education…Read more...