State Education News
- Glitches follow switch from paper to computer testing (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- Charter tax plan raises questions (Columbus Dispatch)
- Reading help on the way for Columbus kindergartners (Columbus Dispatch)
- Former state education official pleads guilty to possessing child porn (Columbus Dispatch)
- Lorain Academic Distress Commission meets (Lorain Morning Journal)
Students aren’t the only ones nervous about state testing. Very public computer glitches plaguing online testing in several states in recent weeks are making educators and state leaders…Read more...
A proposed state law singles out Columbus City Schools taxpayers to shoulder part of the tax burden for charter schools even though thousands of Franklin County’s charter-school students live in suburban school districts…Read more...
Most children who came to kindergarten in Columbus schools without knowing the ABCs, which way to hold a book or other important early-reading skills remained behind when they reached third grade…Read more...
A fired state education official has pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of possession of child pornography…Read more...
The Lorain Academic Distress Commission will see a draft of the district’s academic improvement plan Monday, along with data on how the schools operate…Read more...
Local Education News
- Local revenue increases without ballot requests becoming more common for schools (Chillicothe Gazette)
- CHCA continues to broaden international student program (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- Sheriff won’t support school levies unless districts look at armed personnel (Dayton Daily News)
- Beavercreek schools face money crisis in 2015 (Dayton Daily News)
- Gadgets growing on local schools: Even youngest of pupils getting involved (Lima News)
- Here's who wasn't picked; Lorain Academic Distress Commission candidates uncovered (Lorain Morning Journal)
- Lorain County school leaders oppose expansion of voucher program (Lorain Morning Journal)
- Despite hurdles local ballot issues face, system unlikely to change (Mansfield News Journal)
- Stepp files lawsuit against Medina Board of Education (Sun Newspapers)
- Eager for education (Youngstown Vindicator)
For two decades, Licking Valley Local Schools have not gone to the ballot to ask for more money — but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t taken more from local taxpayers…Read more...
Many foreign students study abroad in high school for a year or two as exchange students. At Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy, most stay for its entirety…Read more...
Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones declared this week that he “won’t support a school levy again that doesn’t address school safety with armed personnel…Read more...
Without any changes, the Beavercreek City School District would start the 2015 fiscal year with $5.2 million in the bank, not enough to open the schools for 2015/16 school year…Read more...
Temple Christian sixth-grader Anna Acklin spent this year using a school-issued iPad in class and at home. She considered herself lucky, until learning kindergartners at her school will get iPad Minis…Read more...
The names of seven candidates for the local appointments to Lorain’s Academic Distress Commission have been uncovered through an investigation by the Morning Journal…Read more...
Lorain County’s school superintendents, as well as administrators from Sandusky City Schools, are speaking out against a proposed expansion to a state voucher program…Read more...
For six consecutive times, West Muskingum Local Schools had gone to the voters seeking additional financial support only to be rejected…Read more...
Medina City School District superintendent Randy Stepp has made good on a threat to take the district to court, filing a lawsuit against the board of education and other district officials in federal court…Read more...
The 2013 graduates of the Youngstown Early College didn’t talk as much about all the good times they had in high school as about their journeys, and how tough it was staying the course…Read more...
Editorial
- A promise to our kids (Columbus Dispatch)
A bill pending in the Ohio House that would tweak some provisions of Ohio’s third-grade reading guarantee would make the program more workable for schools without undermining its intent…Read more...