State Education News
- Ohio Adopts New Restraint, Seclusion Room Policies For Schools (WBNS)
- School funding plan gets overhaul from Ohio House (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Ohio was a state that had no restrictions on seclusion rooms or restraints in schools. In December, the state created a policy, or guidelines, for districts to follow...Read more...
State legislative leaders tossed out a major part of Gov. John Kasich's school funding plan Tuesday and significantly shifted the dollars that individual districts would receive from the state...Read more...
Local Education News
- National Robotics Challenge returns for 10th year (Marion Star)
- Cuts could hit Head Start (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
- Geneva schools to host open meeting on lockdown response (Ashtabula Star-Beacon)
- Students earn Junior Achievement experience, honors (Canton Repository)
- Fairborn teachers put to the test (WDTN)
- Bluffton student raises awareness for diabetes, awarded for efforts (Lima News)
- New Technology Allows Police To Have Eyes Inside Schools (WBNS)
- Turnout seen as key to Chillicothe City School's levy success (Chillicothe Gazette)
- Pymatuning Valley Local School District classified employee has beef with superintendent (Ashtabula Star-Beacon)
- Cleveland School district approves sale of administration building to hotel for $4.5 million (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Avon Lake City Schools stress passage of levy (Lorain Morning Journal)
- 'Do the Right Thing' program returns to Lorain City Schools (Lorain Morning Journal)
- Niles McKinley High begins classes in new building (Youngstown Vindicator)
- Youngstown school board rejects funding members' trip to Calif. (Youngstown Vindicator)
While much of the robotics buzz locally is centering on the upcoming world robotics championship to be held in California, the event that first spurred an interest locally will enter its 10th year Thursday...Read more...
Students and teachers in Mahoning and Trumbull counties could be affected by a federal funding hit to Head Start programs...Read more...
Geneva teachers and first responders will team up Thursday to inform parents about new emergency lockdown procedures at every district school...Read more...
Dozens of area high school students spent Tuesday morning showing what they’ve learned this year about business, and several went home with scholarship money...Read more...
Fairborn students got an extra day of Spring Break Monday while their teachers had a very serious lesson to learn in the classroom...Read more...
Jena Diller has no memory of a time when she didn’t have a sibling with Type 1 diabetes. Her older sister was diagnosed at age 12, her younger brother at age 4...Read more...
A new tool has turned Baltimore village police officers into “virtual” cops. DARE officer Jason Harget demonstrated how officers can see inside every school in the district from the inside of his police cruiser...Read more...
With no other candidates or issues on the May 7 ballot for Chillicothe voters, people pushing for passage of the Chillicothe City Schools’ operational levy realize that getting people fired up..Read more...
A Pymatuning Valley Local School District classified employee says she has been placed on unpaid administrative leave after missing several weeks of work due to being on a mission trip out of the country...Read more...
A St. Louis hotel company will become the new owners of the Cleveland School District's landmark East Sixth administration building after the school board voted 5-to- 3 to accept its $4.5 million bid Tuesday night...Read more...
As the May 7 primary election quickly approaches, Avon Lake City School board members met yesterday to discuss financials and stress how important the upcoming levy is to success of the district and city of Avon Lake...Read more...
Lorain City Schools’ “Do the Right Thing” program has returned after more than a year’s hiatus...Read more...
“It’s really nice, and I love it,” said Angelisa Beltran, a 17-year-old senior, as she and nearly 675 of her fellow students began their first day of classes in the new Niles McKinley High School...Read more...
If three city school board members want to attend a National School Boards Association conference this weekend in San Diego, they’ll have to pay for it themselves...Read more...