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Education News for 08-23-2012

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State Education News

  • Teach for America recruits get feet wet at local schools (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • As students across Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky return to school this month, some will be taught by a new breed of teacher: graduates of the first-ever class of Teach for America-Southwest Ohio...Read more...

  • College freshmen perceive world differently (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Incoming U.S. college students have never seen a paper airline ticket, like to watch television on almost anything but a television...Read more...

  • Inmates facing long wait for a GED (Columbus Dispatch)

    • About 12 percent of Ohio prisoners are enrolled in education programs, with more than 2,100 receiving a high-school equivalence certificate...Read more...

  • School districts eye shared services to save money (Newark Advocate)

    • Licking Heights and Southwest Licking local schools are in the process of narrowing down a list of possible shared services, with an eye on saving money. Treasurers from the two neighboring school districts have been meeting...Read more...

  • Report says state knew of TPS practice on attendance (Toledo Blade)

    • State education officials were told directly by Toledo Public Schools staff at least four years ago about the district's policy to withdraw and then re-enroll habitually truant students...Read more...

  • Ohio students test better on ACT than national average (Willoughby News Herald)

    • Ohio students have once again tested above the national average on the ACT, according to results released Wednesday. Ohio’s class of 2012 had a composite score of 21.8 in English...Read more...

Local Education News

    Copley administrator takes on two roles (Akron Beacon Journal)

    Copley High School’s new acting principal is a familiar face in the district. Aaron Sable will greet students in a return role when students begin classes today. On Tuesday, the Copley- Fairlawn Board of Education announced his hiring...Read more...

  • Private-school parents sue Northridge schools over busing (Columbus Dispatch)

    • The bus wasn’t going to pick up his kids for their first day of school on Monday, not until Bill Jones fought back. It took a meeting with a Licking County judge yesterday to keep the wheels rolling...Read more...

  • Carey board buys computer system (Findlay Courier)

    • Carey school board recently approved the purchase of a new wireless computer system for the district, according to The Progressor-Times newspaper...Read more...

  • Tentative pact with teachers reached (Findlay Courier)

    • North Baltimore school officials and its teachers' union have reached a tentative contract agreement, the two sides announced Wednesday. Details of the offer were not released...Read more...

  • Amherst schools blame glitch for mass callings (Lorain Morning Journal)

    • Amherst schools got off to a rocky second day of the school year yesterday when parents and guardians for the roughly 4,000 youths students...Read more...

  • Early readers get a boost from donors (Marion Star)

    • Bedtime stories can do more than get a child off to sleep. Reading them to your children may give them the power later in life to learn and earn...Read more...

  • Local officials urge governor to restore funds (Toledo Blade)

    • Elected officials, police and fire union leaders, and public agency representatives called on Gov. John Kasich on Wednesday to restore funds that were cut from local government, schools, and libraries as part of Ohio's two-year budget...Read more...

  • Cleveland: A critical school year ahead (WKYC)

    • The Cleveland Metropolitan School District is facing a critical start to the school year. The district is grappling with layoffs, shorter school days and a mega-levy on the ballot in November...Read more...

Editorial

  • Crescendo schools scandal shows why teachers need due process (Los Angeles Times)

    • The shameful cheating at the now-closed Crescendo charter schools shows why legislative attempts to strip teachers of due process before they can be fired...Read more...

  • Don’t Y’town residents realize clock’s ticking on city schools? (Youngstown Vindicator)

    • There’s a lot to chew on in the report by the Harwood Institute For Public Innovation on the community’s attitude toward the Youngstown City School District...Read more...