State Education News

Attendance investigation to cite errors (Cincinnati Enquirer)

Officials with the Cincinnati and Winton Woods school districts say they will be dinged for improper procedures and other errors, including missing documents and clerical issues …Read more...

GED test for high school equivalency degree will be more expensive and harder in 2014 (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Adults without high school diplomas will find it harder and more expensive to earn their equivalency degrees next year, another obstacle for people…Read more...

Auditor’s report on ‘scrubbing’ due today (Columbus Dispatch)

When state Auditor Dave Yost releases results today of his statewide investigation into whether schools “scrubbed” students from their books, the list of rule-breakers will be short…Read more...

New reading requirements could cost schools millions (Hamilton Journal-News)

It could potentially cost Miami Valley school districts millions of dollars annually to meet the requirements of the new state Third Grade Reading Guarantee…Read more...

Stakes high for new teacher evaluation system (Hamilton Journal-News)

School districts across Ohio are preparing to implement the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System next school year, which will rate teachers based on how well their students learn…Read more...

Local Education News

Project Excellence accepting nominations of outstanding Warren County teachers (Dayton Daily News)

The Area Progress Council’s Project Excellence program is seeking teacher nominations as it enters its 26th year of honoring public educators in Warren County…Read more...

Digital learning put on display (Marion Star)

Marion Harding High School students and teachers put digital learning on display Wednesday as part of the second national Digital Learning Day…Read more...

Local Catholic high schools see enrollment increases (Middletown Journal)

Two local Catholic high schools are bucking the trend of falling enrollment at schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati…Read more...

Schools, parents team up to fight pill abuse (Springfield News-Sun)

Nearly one in every five high school students in Clark County has taken medications not prescribed to them, a local health district survey found…Read more...

Area high school teachers tackle technology (Willoughby News Herald)

Technology evolves so quickly that it can be hard enough for the average consumer to keep up…Read more...

Editorial

Uncertain schools (Akron Beacon Journal)

An irony confronting school officials across Ohio is that a Statehouse that requires them to project district budget plans five years into the future itself shuffles the deck once or twice every two years…Read more...

Board game (Toledo Blade)

The Toledo Board of Education faces a long, tough, urgent agenda that would tax the skills of a highly effective governing body…Read more...