State Education News
- Race to Top grants not worth costs, officials say (Columbus Dispatch)
- In some classrooms, social media welcome (Columbus Dispatch)
- Ohio first to target K-3 in voucher program (Dayton Daily News)
- Emails show data scrubbing analyzed in ’08 (Toledo Blade)
- Superintendents to testify about state funding (Zanesville Times-Recorder)
Requirements tied to federal Race to the Top education grants have become more work than the money is worth, some Ohio school districts say…Read more...
Jordan Shapiro’s class last week delved into a weighty discussion of Plato’s allegory of the cave and shifting perceptions of reality…Read more...
Ohio may become the first state in the nation to offer publicly funded vouchers to K-3 students whose schools fail to hit the bar in reading…Read more...
It is well-documented that the Ohio Department of Education long knew — or should have known — about extensive data scrubbing at urban Ohio school districts…Read more...
After losing $500,000 from state funding budget cuts in the past two years, Morgan Local Schools Superintendent Lori Snyder-Lowe fears what’s to come from other budget modifications…Read more...
Local Education News
- Schools receive their report cards (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- Dublin chooses new superintendent from suburban Cleveland (Columbus Dispatch)
- Amherst schools up security; $250,000 system to include panic button, telephones in every classroom (Lorain Morning Journal)
- Monroe mulls $740K in savings (Middletown Journal)
- Community backs new city schools plan (Youngstown Vindicator)
Excellent is the rating for the Oak Hills Local School District. The Ohio Department of Education recently released its Ohio Report Card ratings…Read more...
Dublin schools announced today that Todd Hoadley will be the district’s next superintendent…Read more...
Amherst schools will upgrade its security system for the next school year to include a panic button in every building and telephones in every classroom…Read more...
Monroe schools could save $740,000 over the next two years by reducing teacher positions, negotiating salary freezes, raising employee health care contributions and eliminating two active buses, according to the results of a year-long performance…Read more...
Many in the community support city schools Superintendent Connie Hathorn’s plan to restructure schools in an effort to boost student choice, cut costs and bolster achievement — although some questions remain…Read more...
Editorial
- School districts to state - We need stable funding (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- How about an Ohio school funding formula do-over (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Youngstown school board gets warning from oversight panel (Youngstown Vindicator)
Last month, Gov. John Kasich made waves with his school-funding proposal. The waves have not ceased ... and local districts are still bobbing up and down in rather deep troughs…Read more...
Any proposal to change the inequitable way Ohio funds its public schools is sure to sow confusion and dissension. Funding formulas are complicated things…Read more...
Youngstown schools Superinten- dent Connie Hathorn is seeking a renewal of his contract that expires in July 2014. The chairwoman of the state-appointed Academic Distress Commission…Read more...