Education News for 02-25-2013

State Education News

  • 'Bad apples' mean end of tutor program (Cincinnati Enquirer)
  • Last year, Telina Crooms’ young daughters spent their Saturdays at the Price Hill Recreation Center doing crafts, learning yoga, listening to classical music and, most importantly, learning math at a popular Price Hill tutoring program…Read more...

  • Kasich education proposals aim to cut regulations (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Gov. John Kasich’s proposed school-funding plan and voucher expansion have received plenty of attention, but he also wants a variety of other education-policy changes…Read more...

  • Here’s what the federal budget cuts mean (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Title I money, which goes to the neediest school districts, would decrease by $725 million during the next year, potentially eliminating support to some 2,700 schools serving 1.2 million students…Read more...

  • Cuts might be bad, but no one is panicking yet (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Congress has less than a week to undo scheduled spending cuts of $1.2 trillion over the next decade, but the halls of the Capitol didn’t just lack urgency last week…Read more...

  • GED test, cost to change in 2014 (Hamilton Journal-News)
  • Impending changes to the General Educational Development test, or GED, make 2013 an important year for students who want to pass the exam and achieve his or her Ohio High School Equivalence Diploma…Read more...

  • Open enrollment to face state review (Zanesville Times-Recorder)
  • A program that allows students to attend any participating school district in the state will be reviewed for the first time in 20 years amid consensus the tax dollars involved make winners of some districts and losers of others…Read more...

Local Education News

  • State transportation subsidies put schools on the road to tax increases (Akron Beacon Journal)
  • Area school superintendents say they are alarmed by Gov. John Kasich’s proposal to keep the transportation budget unchanged at a time when fuel and equipment costs…Read more...

  • Reynoldsburg students learning while doing in Capstone program (Columbus Dispatch)
  • The students base their research projects on problems they want to solve: A solar-powered cellphone charger. A hydroponic system that helps low-income families…Read more...

  • Mentors at Ohio State help Latino youth (Columbus Dispatch)
  • At age 15, Martin Perez found himself working in a tortilla factory on Columbus’ West Side — 247 miles from his family home in Michigan…Read more...

  • Columbus school board gave Harris all the power (Columbus Dispatch)
  • If it looks like the Columbus Board of Education hasn’t been paying close attention to the details of running a $1 billion-a-year enterprise, it’s by design…Read more...

  • District eyes cuts, transportation fees (Springfield News-Sun)
  • Urbana City School board members are reviewing about $650,000 in potential cuts and possibly closing a school building as part of $1 million in spending reductions by the 2013- 2014 school year…Read more...

  • Local teachers learn to be 'First Responders' (WKYC)
  • Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's "Active Shooter Training for Educators" will be held in the Cleveland area all-day Monday in Valley View…Read more...

  • Youngstown schools spent $7 million on substitute teachers over the last five years (Youngstown Vindicator)
  • THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS SPENT NEARLY $7 million on substitute teachers the last five years, with more than three more months left in this school year…Read more...

Editorial

  • CCS plan addresses urgent challenges (Canton Repository)
  • The restructuring plan for Canton City Schools that Superintendent Adrian Allison unveiled last week will aggressively tackle two urgent challenges facing the district…Read more...

  • Catching charter-school cheaters (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • Recent criminal charges filed against officials at Cleveland's Lion of Judah Academy charter school for allegedly shifting $1.2 million…Read more...

  • Don't rush for schools chief (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Conducting a search right now for a new superintendent of Columbus City Schools poses serious challenges: What top-notch executive would leap…Read more...

  • Support technology education (Marion Star)
  • Earlier this week we published a story about middle school students taking part in a robot competition. Young teens and tweens from across the county spent the day testing their machines in competition with each other…Read more...