State Education News
- Legislators try to combat school-standards rumors (Columbus Dispatch)
- Columbus school district’s staffs being interviewed a 2nd time (Columbus Dispatch)
- School board urged not to arm teachers (Newark Advocate)
- School board members hear ideas on school safety, but seem to be rejecting arming teachers (Ohio Public Radio)
- Brookfield in fiscal emergency (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
- State Board Hears Ways To Boost School Safety (WBNS)
Tom Gibbs has reluctantly watched conservative commentator Glenn Beck and is up to speed on the criticisms of the new Common Core…Read more...
State investigators started a second round of interviews with dozens of teachers at most of the Columbus school district’s high schools yesterday…Read more...
Top state law enforcement officials urged members of Ohio’s state school board Tuesday not to support arming untrained teachers with guns in response to recent school shootings…Read more...
School safety was the top topic for the state board of education, which hoped to learn about how to make buildings, staff and students more secure…Read more...
The Brookfield Local School District is in a state of fiscal emergency, according to a report released Tuesday by Auditor of State Dave Yost…Read more...
Ohio’s top law enforcers addressed members of the state school board as it considers how to best update its school safety polices…Read more...
Local Education News
- Cleveland school board OKs new teachers contract (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- No one told teachers they would lose jobs (Columbus Dispatch)
- Treasurer’s mistake cuts up to $1.5M off Jonathan Alder’s budget (Columbus Dispatch)
- Lorain School Board hears high school update, approves busing contract (Lorain Morning Journal)
- Lorain City Schools reassessing its 'Success for All' reading program (Lorain Morning Journal)
- Some Youngstown school principals to be in new posts (Youngstown Vindicator)
The Cleveland school board Tuesday night approved a groundbreaking contract with its teachers, while also picking a new home for district offices…Read more...
Less than two weeks before the May 7 election, Groveport Madison schools announced $2 million in cuts if voters turned down…Read more...
Officials in the Jonathan Alder school district in Madison County don’t know how much money they have to operate on next school year…Read more...
The new Lorain High School has stayed within budget during its design development phase and few changes have happened since the initial design…Read more...
Lorain City Schools is reevaluating its “Success For All” reading program and could switch to a new system by next year…Read more...
Some positions are being reshuffled to align with the new city school building configuration…Read more...