State Education News
- Seclusion-room policy: State plan a burden, schools say (Columbus Dispatch)
- Ohio 12th in US for strongest teacher unions (Dayton Daily News)
- Two compete for state school board seat (Findlay Courier)
- School districts could be hit hard by federal sequestration (Middletown Journal)
Schools say they’d be overburdened with paperwork, extra testing and expensive training if the state sticks with its plan to regulate how they seclude and restrain students…Read more...
Ohio has the nation’s 12th-strongest teacher unions, which have “highly permissive” bargaining rights and are involved politically even though the public…Read more...
Northwestern Ohio voters will be picking a representative to the state school board Tuesday. Vying for the District 1 board seat are incumbent Ann E. Jacobs…Read more...
Should automatic spending cuts, or sequestration, set to take place in January occur, it could have a dramatic impact on the availability of federal grant funds for education…Read more...
Local Education News
- Schools pause to mourn Canton City Schools Superintendent Chris Smith (Canton Repository)
- Enrollment campout begins at Clifton school (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- Northeast Ohio schools seek tax increases, voters seeks answers about other sources of funding (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Anti-levy group: school-produced video crosses legal line (Dayton Daily News)
- Kindness in Action: Madison students sending 3,200 items to troops (Mansfield News Journal)
- School within a school project focuses on hands on learning within a school (Newark Advocate)
- 4.9-mill TPS levy would cost owner of $100,000 home about $150 per year (Toledo Blade)
- How Cleveland public schools are funded (WKYC)
Silence fell over three Stark County stadiums Saturday night as thousands of rowdy high school football fans took a moment to honor Canton City School Superintendent Chris Smith…Read more...
Nearly two weeks before enrollment starts, parents are pitching tents on the lawn of a Cincinnati Public school with hopes of getting their kids in one of the district’s most popular magnet programs…Read more...
More than a third of Northeast Ohio's school districts are asking voters for tax increases…Read more...
A video produced by Vandalia-Butler City Schools in advance of Tuesday’s levy vote has members of an anti-levy group questioning whether it pushes the envelope on laws…Read more...
Madison Junior High School students collected 3,200 items to send to U.S. troops overseas in time for Christmas…Read more...
Raymond Leslie often struggles to stay focused on a lecture in class. But when he’s holding a camera, or creating a piece of art, the concepts start clicking…Read more...
Of the seven levy requests facing Toledo voters on Election Day, the largest by far is from Toledo Public Schools…Read more...
The Issue 107 ballot issue to levy taxes for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District raises a lot of questions…Read more...
Editorial
- Guarantee to fail? (Akron Beacon Journal)
- Parents and teachers need to team up to help lift children out of poverty (Columbus Dispatch)
- The Importance of Education: An Economics View (Education Week)
Reading is such a basic skill, you can’t argue against children being able to read at grade level by the time they leave the third grade…Read more...
“The fate of our country won’t be decided on a battlefield. It will be determined in a classroom.”…Read more...
It's not headline news that educational attainment is highly correlated with income: College graduates typically earn more than less-educated Americans…Read more...