State Education News
- Legislature may ditch takeover proposal for Columbus schools (Columbus Dispatch)
As hearings start this week on a Columbus school-district reform bill, an earlier proposal allowing for a state takeover of the state’s largest district is likely to vanish…Read more...
Local Education News
- North Canton school officials take steps to increase building security (Akron Beacon Journal)
- Akron board cuts Akron Digital Academy loose (Akron Beacon Journal)
- A look inside the future of education (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- Teachers negotiating (Findlay Courier)
- Lorain City Schools' staff looks to change culture of low expectations (Lorain Morning Journal)
- Lots of changes in Warren district (Marietta Times)
- Boardman schools official warns of 5% cut in funding (Youngstown Vindicator)
The Board of Education has approved the purchase of digital radios and antennas as part of a district-wide safety and security initiative…Read more...
The Akron school board effectively severed ties with Akron Digital Academy — after sponsoring the online charter school for more than a decade…Read more...
In a new building just outside of Indianapolis’ downtown, Darren McCorkle sits at a desk in a sea of short-walled cubicles, taking an eighth-grade algebra lesson online…Read more...
Contract negotiations between Findlay's teacher union and the district administration are progressing smoothly, according to Superintendent Dean Wittwer…Read more...
Lorain City Schools’ staff has developed a “widespread culture of low expectations” but hope is budding among employees under its new administration, a state assessment determined…Read more...
The Warren Local school district will look very different next year with a new superintendent, new high school and elementary administrators and the return of high school busing…Read more...
The Boardman schools director of instruction said she expects a 5 percent cut in funding next year for the four federal programs for which the school district receives money…Read more...
Editorial
- Dollars in the classroom (Akron Beacon Journal)
- Added scrutiny of charter schools in city and state is overdue, but finally coming (Youngstown Vindicator)
State Sen. Peggy Lehner wants to devote an additional $100 million to early childhood education in Ohio. The Kettering Republican cites the handsome return, $10 or more for every dollar spent…Read more...
State and local education leaders are committing themselves to beefed-up monitoring of Ohio’s ballooning network of charter schools…Read more...