State Education News

2 are finalists for Ohio education chief (Columbus Dispatch)

A state Board of Education subcommittee today named Ohio’s acting schools superintendent and the governor’s top education adviser as finalists for state superintendent of public instruction…Read more…

State Ed Board spends 50K to “find” current superintendent (Plunderbund.com)

Last year the State School Board hired Ray and Associates, an Iowa-based company that “specializes in educational executive leadership searches”, to help identify a new State Superintendent.…Read more…

Ohio Bill Would Allow Schools To Use Levies To Cover Security Costs (WBNS)

School districts strapped for cash may soon have another way to pull money for school security.…Read more…

Local Education News

IN OUR SCHOOLS: Principals face layoffs from CPS (Cincinnati Enquirer)

The budget scramble has begun at Cincinnati Public Schools, and it may cost some workers their jobs.…Read more…

Strongsville teachers strike moves into 2nd day; more substitutes will be in classrooms (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Teachers braved biting cold on picket lines today during the first day of the Strongsville Education Association's strike against the district, while students and principals faced their own ordeal inside the schools.…Read more…

Lima Senior students bring 'Shark Tank' lessons to middle schoolers (Lima News)

They’re called Spring Shoes, and Lima North Middle School fifth-graders Michael Younger and J’Veahn Soles assured the “Sharks” the shoes would be the next big thing.…Read more…

State tells Newcomerstown: 'We're not here to take control' (New Philadelphia Times-Reporter)

State and local officials met for the first time Monday to begin formulating a plan that will get Newcomerstown out of fiscal emergency status.…Read more…

Legend Elementary deemed 'School of Promise' (Newark Advocate)

Legend Elementary is one of 163 schools statewide to be recognized as a School of Promise by the Ohio Department of Education based on its 2011-12 report card.…Read more…

Massive ‘Building for Success’ program gets mixed reviews (Toledo Blade)

So big was the project, so vast its purported benefits to the city and its schools, and yet it barely passed.…Read more…

Strongsville High School students leave class during strike, feel unsafe and describe overcrowding (WEWS)

Strongsville High School students described a chaotic school day as their teachers took to the picket line.…Read more…

Schools lose beneficial drug prevention program P.L.U.S., investigate other options (Willoughby News Herald)

Beginning next year, area schools will no longer have access to the long-time drug prevention program they’ve come to know.…Read more…

Editorial

‘A passion to be spent’ on teaching children (Akron Beacon Journal)

“The situation is dire, the agenda urgent. … There is work to be done and passion to be spent by all of us who appreciate the stakes for our children and for the nation’s future.…Read more…

State should give Cleveland school reform plan a chance to work: editorial (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

The Cleveland and Lorain school districts have fallen into the academic doghouse, failing to meet federal standards for four years and earning the state's lowest academic rating -- "emergency," essentially an F.…Read more…

Resolve Strongsville teachers strike quickly: editorial (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

No doubt about it: The ugly, confrontational Strongsville teachers strike is a disservice to the future of the suburban district, rated "excellent with distinction" by the state.…Read more…

Punish school statistics’ scrubbers (Marietta Times)

In what amounted to a spot check of Ohio school districts, state Auditor Dave Yost found eight that engaged in "scrubbing" of attendance reports.…Read more…

Common sense school rules (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

Several common-sense changes in state rules that often hobble rather than help public schools are being proposed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich.…Read more…