State Education News
- Ohio business leaders urge education reform (Canton Repository)
- Bucknell inflated its SAT scores (Columbus Dispatch)
- Ohio Governor John Kasich sets online 'town hall' on education (WEWS)
A group of major Ohio business leaders is urging Gov. John Kasich to push hard on educational changes…Read more...
Bucknell University has disclosed that for several years it reported inflated SAT scores for incoming freshmen, making the private liberal-arts school in Pennsylvania…Read more...
Ohio's governor is planning an online "town hall" session…Read more...
Local Education News
- County Commissioners OK part-time deputies for schools (Chillicothe Gazette)
- Defeating the math monster (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- Girl’s suicide spurs second-guessing (Columbus Dispatch)
- Centerville to make $2.6M in cuts (Dayton Daily News)
- Delaware County Schools Considering Changes To Safety Policies (WBNS)
- Jurors in T.J. Lane Chardon shooting case to be sequestered (Willoughby News Herald)
- Group calls board member’s comments racist (Youngstown Vindicator)
Within two weeks, a pair of Ross County sheriff’s deputies will begin making their rounds of the county’s schools…Read more...
The move to high school isn’t just for ninth-graders anymore. Next year, in an effort to bolster academics – especially math – Cincinnati Public Schools will expand all of its high schools to house grades 7-12 instead of the 9-12 model…Read more...
Hailey Petee hated her glasses, the ones with lenses so thick that they distorted the look of her pretty blue-gray eyes…Read more...
Centerville City Schools, which saw its November levy fail by less than a percentage point, approved on Monday night $2.6 million in cuts from its budget next school year…Read more...
The Delaware City Schools Board of Education plans to join with city council Monday night to host an annual meeting. One of the topics will be school safety…Read more...
Jurors selected in the Thomas Lane III aggravated murder trial will be sequestered during deliberations, Geauga County Common Pleas Judge David L. Fuhry ruled in an opinion made public Monday…Read more...
A community group is taking offense at what it calls “racist” comments made by a veteran city school board member and threatens sanctions if the school board doesn’t take corrective action…Read more...
Editorial
- Put the money on early education (Akron Beacon Journal)
- Unfunded guarantee (Akron Beacon Journal)
- Ohio school board member's Facebook fiasco warrants an apology (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- A lesson on life (Toledo Blade)
- Liberty plan has already been charted (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
I was watching a gymnastics competition on television, admiring the strength of those tight and incredibly lithe bodies when something caught my ear from the chatter of the commentators…Read more...
On Thursday, John Kasich plans to unveil his proposal for revamping the way the state pays for public schools. He will be the fourth governor to take a stab at the problem since the Ohio Supreme Court found the funding formula…Read more...
Gov. John Kasich ought not to fire Debe Terhar, president of the State Board of Education, despite her offensive Facebook posting quoting…Read more...
Usually, teachers teach and students learn in a classroom. But kids can also teach adults a thing or two. Take Perrysburg Junior High School seventh-grader Michael Skotynsky…Read more...
A local state audit that showed a $12,720 overpayment to former Liberty schools treasurer Tracey Obermiyer is peanuts…Read more...