State Education News
- Before high school, students hearing value of college planning (Columbus Dispatch)
- Stomachs growled, so lunch-food limits eased (Columbus Dispatch)
- Schools scrambling to ready for online testing (Lima News)
- How we got to 612 schools (Newark Advocate)
- Voucher plan concerns some area officials (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
- Frustrated state lawmakers discuss school funding with Valley superintendents (Youngstown Vindicator)
Several seventh- and eighth-graders at Ridgeview Junior High School in Pickerington already have started to map out their college plans, which include the University of Florida…Read more...
Some schools are beefing up cafeteria meals after the federal government ended limits on the amount of meat and grain on their menus…Read more...
Like others in the region, Delphos schools will be ready when state online testing begins in the 2014-15 school year, but also like many, getting there won’t be easy…Read more...
Public education in Ohio dates back to before it was a state, with the Northwest Ordinance putting an emphasis on creating schools to educate children…Read more...
School officials from Trumbull, Mahoning and Ashtabula counties on Friday met with state lawmakers about Gov. John Kasich's school funding plan and its potential impact on local districts…Read more...
Area school superintendents complained in a meeting with state legislators Friday about the proposed cutback of $600 million in public-school funding and the money they have to pay to charter schools…Read more...
Local Education News
- School bus fleet ages and grows more costly to maintain as state shifts burden to local taxpayers (Akron Beacon Journal)
- Strengthening school security; Sheriff’s office proposes plan to place deputies in county districts (Lorain Morning Journal)
- Licking County schools wary of adding more shared services (Newark Advocate)
- Big districts can lead to bus issues (Newark Advocate)
- Perrysburg Schools named Best Community for Music Education (Toledo Blade)
- Kenston, teachers union without contract, working with federal mediator (Willoughby News Herald)
- Columbiana school board clarifies use of bond funds (Youngstown Vindicator)
That school bus you see hauling kids down the road might look nice and yellow, but chances are good it’s old, costly and one of the reasons educators are making sacrifices in the education they provide…Read more...
The Lorain County Sheriff’s Office wants to work with school districts in townships to periodically station deputies in school buildings…Read more...
Every day, students attending Flying Colors Public Preschool learn a variety of lessons, including how to share…Read more...
Amanda King has an hour bus ride to and from Philo High School. This senior uses the morning trip to get the remainder of sleep out of her eyes, and the way home is spent in anticipation of getting something to eat before chores and homework…Read more...
Perrysburg School District has, for the seventh year in a row, been selected as on of the Best Communities for Music Education by the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation…Read more...
A federal mediator is working with the Kenston Education Association and district administrators to help iron out differences arising in contract negotiations…Read more...
During a special meeting, the Columbiana school board unanimously adopted a resolution clarifying how the proceeds would be spent if…Read more...
Editorial
- A new leader for Ohio schools (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Kasich's funding formula fails traditional schools; redrafting by the General Assembly is imperative (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Mayor Coleman: Let us help (Columbus Dispatch)
- Promising minds are overlooked (Columbus Dispatch)
- Settle on system for measurement of Ohio school performance (Lorain Morning Journal)
The swearing-in Monday of Richard Ross as Ohio's new state school superintendent comes at a critical time for state education policy. Pending reforms put a premium on stability and integrity at the top…Read more...
The Ohio legislature ought to rewrite Gov. John Kasich's flawed school-funding formula to reflect the state's higher priority -- adequate funding of the state's traditional public schools…Read more...
Over the past several months, we’ve seen our community come together like never before behind the cause of educating our children…Read more...
It’s unfortunate that most of the top high-school achievers who are poor don’t apply to the nation’s most-selective colleges and universities…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 muddled…Read more...