State Education News

CPS responds on 'data scrubbing' (Cincinnati Enquirer)

Cincinnati Public Schools Superintendent Mary Ronan on Wednesday downplayed the possibility that the district could lose up to $40 million in state funding…Read more...

Kasich education advisers defend school-funding formula (Columbus Dispatch)

Gov. John Kasich’s top education advisers told legislators yesterday that they did not attempt to calculate the adequate cost of educating a child…Read more...

Budget proposal would fund creative education ideas (Columbus Dispatch)

Richard Ross didn’t mince words yesterday about the proposed $300 million “Straight-A” fund for schools, calling it the “single most-important element for change” in Gov. John Kasich’s school-funding formula…Read more...

Local Education News

Reynoldsburg, schools to share services of manager (Columbus Dispatch)

Reynoldsburg and the city school district will share the services of a human-resources manager…Read more...

District to buy 30 new buses for $2.6 million (Hamilton Journal-News)

Fairfield City Schools will spend more than $2 million during the next 10 years to purchase 30 new buses to replenish its aging fleet…Read more...

East Holmes makes changes in staff, drops German (New Philadelphia Times)

The East Holmes Board of Education has voted to realign academic and administrative staff for the 2013-2014 school year to deal with record enrollment at Hiland High and new graduation…Read more...

New internal assessments elicit cautious optimism for Toledo Public Schools (Toledo Blade)

As Toledo Public Schools found itself mired in public turmoil in recent months, with a search for a new superintendent, a state investigation that criticized attendance reporting practices, and the defeat of another levy…Read more...

Elyria City School District to cut 59.5 positions (WEWS)

By a unanimous vote the Elyria City School Board approved $3 million in cuts…Read more...

Superintendent oversees three districts (WKYC)

There is a push in Ohio for schools to share more resources and even people…Read more...

Costly lawsuits over school busing problems (WOIO)

For eight years now 19 Action News have brought you stories of busing woes in the Nordonia Hills schools…Read more...