State Education News
- Fund manager bonuses questioned (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- New superintendents getting smaller salaries (Columbus Dispatch)
- Acting state superintendent takes New Albany job (Columbus Dispatch)
- When is it bullying? (Mansfield News Journal)
- School board president reported neighboring district (Middletown Journal)
- Pecko defends district action on ‘scrubbing’ (Toledo Blade)
- Area school districts prepare for state tests taken online (Youngstown Vindicator)
Fund managers at Ohio’s state teacher pension system took in nearly $4 million in bonuses last year – with many of the bonuses alone more than the governor’s salary…Read more...
So far, all of the new superintendents in Franklin County will start their jobs at a lower salary than their predecessors…Read more...
Days after being passed over for Ohio schools chief, Michael Sawyers, who has been acting superintendent for seven months, announced yesterday he is leaving the Department of Education for a job in New Albany-Plain schools…Read more...
Bullying has drawn increased attention, as some of the nation’s deadliest school shootings have been linked to it…Read more...
Kelly Kohls, president of the Springboro school board, was the first person to ask whether aletter critical of the governor that was posted on the Franklin schools web site and sent to families violated Ohio law…Read more...
Toledo Public Schools Superintendent Jerome Pecko defended how his district handled truancy reports and other data in a written response sent to the Ohio Department of Education over a state investigation involving TPS reporting practices…Read more...
Tenth-graders across the state spent much of last week huddled over test booklets, pencils in hand, but in 2014-15 they’ll sit in front of computers instead…Read more...
Local Education News
- Canton City Schools expands focus on early learning (Canton Repository)
- Jackson school district moves Jesus portrait (Columbus Dispatch)
- Panel asks: Columbus school board due for change? (Columbus Dispatch)
- Xenia school board censures member (Dayton Daily News)
- Conotton Valley Local considers layoffs amid funding woes (New Philadelphia Times-Reporter)
- Demand for at-risk group's services higher than ever (Newark Advocate)
- District plans to improve security (Springfield News-Sun)
- Toledo Public Schools system boosts communication (Toledo Blade)
When Alicia Paulette first heard about City Schools’ “A Brighter Tomorrow” plan last month, she was excited…Read more...
A Jesus portrait that has embroiled a southeastern Ohio school district in a federal lawsuit has been moved from the middle school to a high school at the preference of a Christian- based student club that the district views as the picture’s owner…Read more...
A mayoral takeover is not the only option for those who want to overhaul Columbus City Schools. Maybe not even a realistic one…Read more...
A Xenia Community Board of Education member said a resolution censuring him that was recently passed by his fellow board members was “wrongful, unfair, and grossly illegal."…Read more...
A month after voting to close one of its elementary schools, the Conotton Valley Board of Education will consider a proposal Monday to lay off or reduce the hours of more than a dozen employees…Read more...
Skylar Tharp has felt the sting of words such as “weird” and “freak."Read more...
Mechanicsburg school board members are considering a plan to improve security in the district by installing new cameras and requiring visitors to buzz in at additional entrances to school facilities…Read more...
When bad weather hit in years past and Toledo Public Schools canceled or delayed classes, parents and kids had to wait for media reports to cycle through Toledo to learn if there was school that day…Read more...
Editorial
- Charter diversion (Akron Beacon Journal)
- Lake Local faces tough decisions (Canton Repository)
- New leader, big issues (Columbus Dispatch)
- School system restructuring deserves state financial help (Youngstown Vindicator)
- ODE's rating system muddies perception (Zanesville Times-Recorder)
Ohio’s charter school program has made remarkable strides as an alternative to the traditional public school system. But from the beginning, the mechanism for funding the rapidly expanding system was — and remains — contentious…Read more...
The Lake Local Board of Education is facing what every other school district has in the last few years: More cuts to its budget — to the tune of $1.5 million in the upcoming school year — and an attempt to raise more money…Read more...
Taking the helm of the Ohio Department of Education now presents unprecedented challenges and opportunities, and The Dispatch extends best wishes to Richard Ross in the top job…Read more...
For the second time in two years, the troubled Youngstown City School District is undergoing a major transformation in an effort to not only stop the exodus of students…Read more...
The problem with labels is they rarely tell the whole story. In the case of the Ohio Department of Education’s newest label, the story of school performance has become completely muddled…Read more...