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Education News for 09-07-2012

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State Education News

  • State might delay planned letter grades for schools (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Plans to create a new rating system for Ohio schools should be delayed until the investigation into whether districts altered attendance data…Read more...

    http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/09/07/state-might-delay-planned-letter-grades- for-schools.html

  • Project targeting school violence (Findlay Courier)

    • Findlay City Schools and seven Hancock County schools have begun a project to prevent one of the biggest threats to students today: school violence…Read more...

  • Nearly 40 Ohio School Districts Plan to Apply for $400-Million (State Impact Ohio)

    • Thirty-nine Ohio school districts, charter schools and other groups have said they plan to apply for some of the $400 million the federal U.S. Department of Education…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Columbus City Schools’ closed meetings questioned (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The Columbus Board of Education and other district officials have gone into super-secret mode since news broke in June that employees…Read more...

  • Teen sentenced to four years for bomb threat to Lima schools (Lima News)

    • Lima Schools Superintendent Jill Ackerman said Thursday the four-year sentence a teenager received in adult prison for calling in a false bomb threat…Read more...

  • Johnstown bus route timing set to begin (Newark Advocate)

    • Johnstown-Monroe Local Schools will begin timing the routes it uses to take students to private schools next week…Read more...

  • Teaching the teachers (People's Defender)

    • Agricultural education and science teachers from Ohio comprehensive high schools and career technical schools recently participated in the first-ever Ohio Ag-Biotechnology Academy…Read more...

Editorial

  • A privilege to help (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Any parent who has ever gone back-to-school shopping knows how picky kids can be: Shoes and outfits have to be just right. It’s all about looking good and fitting in…Read more...

  • District ready for state education reforms (This Week News)

    • Ohio's education system is experiencing an unprecedented number of proposed and soon to be implemented reforms. Our district welcomes tougher academic standards and higher expectations…Read more...

Education News for 04-06-2012

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Local Issues

  • Cleveland Teachers Union and Mayor Frank Jackson to continue negotiations next week over schools plan (Plain Dealer)

    • They'll be back at it again next week. Mayor Frank Jackson and the Cleveland Teachers Union concluded more than six hours of negotiations Wednesday night over the disputed parts of Jackson's school plan without reaching a final agreement, deciding to take a break from the talks over Easter weekend. Read More…

  • Cleveland education reform plan discussed at community meeting (News Channel 5)

    • CLEVELAND - Mayor Frank Jackson and Cleveland Schools CEO Eric Gordon outlined the plan for transforming schools at a community meeting Thursday night. "We're focused on quality education," Jackson told about 60 residents who gathered at the Gunning Recreation Center. Read More…

  • Chardon High School student, employee called heroes for efforts during shooting in February (Plain Dealer)

    • In the frantic moments after shots rang out Feb. 27 at Chardon High School, cafeteria worker Cherie Reed held open a kitchen door, offering students a haven from chaos and evil. Travis Carver, a 16-year-old junior, heard the noises and thought they were someone popping paper bags. Then he noticed T.J. Lane. Read More…

  • Olentangy bomb ‘threat’ no joke, teen told (Dispatch)

    • Hours before he boarded a plane that took him and his family to Kuwait yesterday, a teenage boy admitted to a Delaware County Juvenile Court judge that he had joked about blowing up his school the day before. Mohamed Mahmoud, 15, pleaded guilty today to inducing panic at Olentangy High School, which was evacuated and searched by authorities in response to what officials thought was a bomb threat. Read More…

  • Parents asked to weigh in on Beavercreek redistricting plan (Dayton Daily News)

    • Beavercreek City Schools officials want to hear from local parents about plans that affect where their children will attend school in 2013-14.< District officials held a public forum Wednesday at Beavercreek High School to present three sets of initial redistricting maps, and put those maps online Thursday. Read More…