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Education News for 04-04-2013

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Local Education News

  • Toledo Public Schools audit identifies $100M in savings over 5 years (Toledo Blade)

    • A private consulting firm that conducted a performance audit of Toledo Public Schools recommends moves the firm says would save the district about $100 million over five years…Read more…

  • State Auditor: Noncompliance Findings For Columbus City Schools (WBNS)

    • State Auditor Dave Yost released documents overnight detailing findings from an annual audit of the Columbus City School district.…Read more…

    


  • Strongsville Strike: Negotiation meeting ends with no deal (WOIO)

    • A federal mediator met with both sides in the ongoing Strongsville teachers strike Wednesday morning. But after 14 hours of negotiating, no deal was made.…Read more…

    


  • Assaulting bus drivers, passing school buses could bring stiffer penalties in Cleveland (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • City Council's Public Safety Committee approved two ordinances this morning that would stiffen the penalty for passing school buses and add assaults on a public transit worker to the list of misconduct on a public bus or train.…Read more…

  • Left behind? (Marietta Times)

    • Some local school officials are concerned about having the hardware and capacity to administer new computer-based state tests set to debut in 2014-15.…Read more…

    


  • Monroe approves superintendent contract (Middletown Journal)

    • The Monroe school board in late March approved a two-year contract for Dr. Phil Cagwin as superintendent, confirmed district treasurer Holly Cahall.…Read more…

    


  • Schools face up to $1.3M cuts (Springfield News-Sun)

    • Federal sequestration budget cuts could cost Clark and Champaign County schools up to $1.3 million for tutors and other staff members that help disadvantaged students, at the same time that districts are facing new state reading requirements.…Read more…

  • Preschool project hinging on quality (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • “A chair for every child in a quality preschool.” That’s the mission of Preschool Promise, an ambitious plan to expand preschool access to 1,000 more children from low- and middle- income families annually in Greater Cincinnati……Read more…

  • Mock school shooting gives true experience in Boardman (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • Two Boardman High School students lay helpless, one in a first-floor hallway bleeding from her arm, one on the stairs missing half of his leg.…Read more…

    


  • Activists complain of inaction by Youngstown school board (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • A group of activists and city school parents, frustrated with what they see as a lack of response to its concerns from the school board, is launching its own action plan to improve the quality of education.…Read more…

Education News for 04-03-2013

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State Education News

  • Educators line up to tour Reynoldsburg (Columbus Dispatch)

    • If you’re an educator who wants to tour Reynoldsburg schools, you’re going to have to wait until fall. The district leads about two tours a week for educators from around the country and across the world, and they’re booked for months…Read more...

  • Ohio’s bookkeeping improved, 2012 audit finds (Columbus Dispatch)

    • If not for the state’s massive Medicaid health-care program, there would be little to talk about in this year’s annual audit of Ohio’s financial records…Read more...

  • Area schools named Schools of Promise (Lima News)

    • Many pieces go into determining whether a pupil finds academic success, and Superintendent Dale Lewellen believes it’s why both Bath's elementary and high schools landed on the state’s…Read more...

  • 21 Mahoning Valley schools designated Schools of Promise (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • Twenty-one Mahoning Valley schools have earned the designation “School of Promise” for the 2011-12 school year from the Ohio Department of Education…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Ashtabula City Council tweaks curfew laws (Ashtabula Star-Beacon)

    • The children spoke and City Council heard them…Read more...

  • Huron school board upholds firing former Superintendent Fox (Lorain Morning Journal)

    • A majority of Huron School Board members voted last night to uphold their firing of former Superintendent Fred Fox, despite a mediator’s report last month that said Fox should be reinstated with back pay…Read more...

Editorial

  • Out of Akron (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • For the past several years, Akron Public Schools administrators have been engaged in an exercise they refer to as “right-sizing” the district. They have closed several school buildings and laid off staff members, including principals, teachers…Read more...

  • Clarity on school funding urgently needed (Canton Repository)

    • Nothing about Gov. John Kasich’s proposed two-year budget is simple. It’s filled with fundamental changes in the way state government operates, and he faces opposition…Read more...

Education News for 03-01-2013

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State Education News

  • Cleveland schools will fall under state oversight by academic distress commission (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • 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...

  • ACLU wants new limits on seclusion expanded (Columbus Dispatch)

    • 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...

  • Magistrate raps Columbus school board on open meetings (Columbus Dispatch)

    • 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...

  • Charter schools criticize audit that claims state is owed $860,000 (Dayton Daily News)

    • 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...

  • What would you do if an armed intruder came to your school? (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • 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)

    • 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 picks new education chief (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Hilliard school-board members opted for a new face yesterday when they chose the district’s next superintendent…Read more...

  • School district among first in area to offer smartphone app (Hamilton Journal-News)

    • Anyone who has a smartphone can now carry Fairfield City Schools in their pocket…Read more...

  • Fairless has two 'Schools of Promise' (New Philadelphia Times-Reporter)

    • 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...

  • Cut 15 jobs, Niles schools audit urges (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • 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...

Education News for 01-24-2013

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State Education News

  • Ohio's teacher training policies receive C- grade from national group (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • Ohio is not picky enough about whom is admitted to teacher training nor does the state require graduates of those programs to pass sufficiently…Read more...

  • Google VP has Ohio’s students on his mind (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Meet Sebastian Thrun, a man who represents a unique component of the “ German” investment Gov. John Kasich is seeking for Ohio this week at the World Economic Forum…Read more...

  • Ideas offered to boost college graduation rates (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Some of the country’s most-influential college presidents are calling on their colleagues to take bolder steps to graduate more students — and stem the flow of dropouts…Read more...

  • Kasich rejects calls for Terhar’s ouster (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Gov. John Kasich says that since state Board of Education President Debe Terhar has admitted her Facebook post about Adolf Hitler and gun control…Read more...

  • School finances remain a concern (Findlay Courier)

    • While excited about the future of curriculum and technology, Fostoria school administrators said this week they are leery of what will happen to school funding as the state tries to balance its budget…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Music education program at Rainey Institute inspires youths from Cleveland schools (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • Some call it the most beautiful concert hall in America. And that's where I went Monday -- to Severance Hall -- for a progress report…Read more...

  • Audit citations lead to fiscal changes (Middletown Journal)

    • Missing money and the use of federal stimulus dollars to purchase items that weren’t allowable are among several citations issued in a state audit of Middletown City Schools…Read more...

Editorial

  • Terhar does history (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • Debe Terhar, the president of the State Board of Education, has called into question her judgment as a public official…Read more...

  • Seeing sense (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The Columbus Board of Education’s decision Tuesday night to cooperate with a mayoral committee’s review of school-district management…Read more...

Education News for 12-07-2012

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Local Education News

  • Buchtel students experience day on job with AT&T (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • Buchtel High School juniors Elijah Graise, Tylor Williams and DeMontrell Hill got a first-hand look Thursday at trouble-shooting a problem on the job…Read more...

  • T.J. Lane's admission about Chardon High shooting should not be used at trial, his lawyers argue (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • T.J. Lane's admissions that he killed students at Chardon High School should not be used at his trial next month because the youth failed to fully understand his rights when officers questioned him…Read more...

  • Olentangy may not need new school (Columbus Dispatch)

    • New enrollment forecasts in the Olentangy school district cast doubt on the need for a new school approved by voters last year…Read more...

  • Berea schools' new hours next year concern some parents (Sun Newspapers)

    • Parents showed up at Monday’s school board meeting to express concerns about the district’s new time shifts, which begin next year…Read more...

  • Toledo Public Schools weighs 3 candidates to audit its performance (Toledo Blade)

    • As Toledo Public Schools ramps up efforts to have an audit of its operations performed, the process of hiring an organization to conduct the audit has widened…Read more...

  • Champion plans cuts if next levy fails (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

    • While the Board of Education will wait until January to officially act on placing a school levy on the ballot in 2013, a plan to slash finances by $602,000 was mapped out this week…Read more...

  • Math Night brings kids, parents together in Springfield (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • Springfield students and parents went on a camping adventure Thursday night. Although the tent was indoors, there were real problems. Math problems, that is…Read more...

Education News for 12-05-2012

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State Education News

  • Ohio Senate passes student-athlete concussion bill (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Starting as soon as the spring sports season, Ohio’s young athletes would have to be immediately removed from a game or practice when they showed symptoms of a concussion…Read more...

  • Columbus school district must pay audit bill (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The cost to Columbus City Schools for being investigated for data-rigging continued to grow this week: The district has become the only one in a statewide probe…Read more...

  • Program to help Ohio schools teach historic texts (Newark Advocate)

    • An educational program unveiled Tuesday by the Ohio Historical Society is meant to help schools comply with a new state law requiring students in grades 4-12…Read more...

  • State audit finds discrepancy in school’s bank deposit (Springfield News-Sun)

    • A state audit released Tuesday included a finding that required the Graham Local School District to repay about $330 to the district’s athletic fund, because of an accounting error…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Adena students' service projects address multiple issues (Chillicothe Gazette)

    • This fall, one class at Adena High School spawned four service projects, most of which had students working within the school…Read more...

  • Cleveland schools CEO Eric Gordon rolls out draft plan aimed at lifting district's performance (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    • Six failing schools in the Cleveland school district could be overhauled in the fall. New specialty schools could open in the district a year later…Read more...

  • Opinions split on freshman reading assignment in Grandview (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Any other year, students needed a signed form from their parents to read the book. If they got that, they would meet after school to discuss the novel with their teacher in small groups…Read more...

  • Vanlue takes over BVS busing service (Findlay Courier)

    • Going along with the recent statewide trend of sharing services to reduce cost, Vanlue schools has taken over busing for Blanchard Valley School's preschool and school-aged children…Read more...

  • High school seniors finding they can't procrastinate in college search process (Willoughby News Herald)

    • Preparing to apply to colleges is a task seniors often begin long before they’re set to make the jump from high school. For example, students at Mentor High School start thinking about career choices in the ninth grade…Read more...

  • CMSD to Restore Full K-8 School Day (WJW)

    • Changes are under way to kindergarten through 8th grade school days in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District…Read more...

Editorial

  • Extended learning (Akron Beacon Journal)

    • Next year, 40 schools in five states will participate in a three-year pilot program to extend the school year by 300 or more hours. Research indicates that properly applied, more instructional time…Read more...