State Education News
- Cleveland schools will fall under state oversight by academic distress commission (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- ACLU wants new limits on seclusion expanded (Columbus Dispatch)
- Magistrate raps Columbus school board on open meetings (Columbus Dispatch)
- Charter schools criticize audit that claims state is owed $860,000 (Dayton Daily News)
- What would you do if an armed intruder came to your school? (Youngstown Vindicator)
The state will begin overseeing the Cleveland school district now that its report card rating of Academic Emergency is official, according to the Ohio Department of Education…Read more...
New rules limiting how schools can seclude and restrain students in Ohio should be expanded to include charter schools, the American Civil Liberties Union told state education officials…Read more...
Simply having an attorney in the room does not allow the Columbus Board of Education to close meetings about its ongoing student-data scandal, a Franklin County magistrate ruled yesterday…Read more...
The Ohio auditor’s office on Thursday again issued findings for recovery involving Dayton’s Richard Allen Academy charter schools, saying their management company, Institute of Management and Resources Inc., owes taxpayers nearly $860,00…Read more...
If an armed intruder were to come to your school or business, what would you do? That question has taken on added urgency for many people since the Dec. 14, 2012, mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown…Read more...
Local Education News
- APS STEM MIDDLE SCHOOL HAS AN APP FOR THAT (Akron Schools)
- Hilliard picks new education chief (Columbus Dispatch)
- School district among first in area to offer smartphone app (Hamilton Journal-News)
- Fairless has two 'Schools of Promise' (New Philadelphia Times-Reporter)
- Cut 15 jobs, Niles schools audit urges (Youngstown Vindicator)
Students from the Akron Public Schools STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Middle School have won the Verizon App Challenge and were voted best in state…Read more...
Hilliard school-board members opted for a new face yesterday when they chose the district’s next superintendent…Read more...
Anyone who has a smartphone can now carry Fairfield City Schools in their pocket…Read more...
Teachers – really doggone good teachers – make all the difference. Just ask Fairless Local. “I tell (the teachers) this often, and I truly mean it,” Fairless Elementary Principal Julie Weyandt said. “I would never trade any of them. I love this…Read more...
A report issued by State Auditor Dave Yost Thursday recommends that Niles City Schools cut 15 full-time positions and increase health care premiums paid by employees to 15 percent of costs to help the district save $1.3 million…Read more...
Editorial
- Making the grade (Akron Beacon Journal)
The release this week of the state school report cards for 2011-12 concludes an experiment in Ohio’s search for an accurate way to convey how well its public schools perform their mission…Read more...