State Education News

Attendance audit: More 'clean' schools (Cincinnati Enquirer)

Ohio Auditor Dave Yost’s office found no evidence of attendance rigging in the second batch of Ohio schools he reviewed as as part of a statewide probe into potential data tampering…Read more...

Northeast Ohio schools come up 'clean' in state auditor's attendance review (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Ohio Auditor Dave Yost's test of school districts with tax requests on the Nov. 6 ballot shows no evidence in Northeast Ohio of "scrubbing,"…Read more...

47 school districts cleared of ‘scrubbing’ (Columbus Dispatch)

A second round of auditing found no evidence that more school officials unlawfully “scrubbed” their student data…Read more...

Auditor probe fails to turn up more problems (Dayton Daily News)

Just two weeks before school districts across Ohio ask voters for more money, state Auditor Dave Yost reported that his team has not uncovered any more evidence…Read more...

State inquiry into school districts’ tinkering with data progresses (Toledo Blade)

The second phase of a statewide audit into possible manipulation of school attendance data found no new instances of improper “scrubbing.”…Read more...

Local Education News

North Baltimore officials pleased with report card (Findlay Courier)

Not unlike a proud parent, North Baltimore school officials Tuesday released preliminary data on a district report card from the state…Read more...

School District To Offer Cardiac Screenings For High School Athletes (WBNS)

The Olentangy Local School District is offering cardiac screenings to high school athletes in an attempt to reduce the number of deaths from undetected heart disorders…Read more...

Failure of district’s levy renewal would mean loss of $5.3 million (Youngstown Vindicator)

If the 10.4-mill city school district renewal levy doesn’t pass, the district would lose about $5.3 million…Read more...

Tutoring program aids Struthers kids (Youngstown Vindicator)

Two students sat across from each other in the art room at Struthers Elementary School on Tuesday and contemplated the task before them…Read more...

Editorial

Lima schools need to think change (Lima News)

Jill Ackerman sent a strong message last week that the status quo won’t be good enough for Lima City Schools…Read more...

Gahanna city council has put itself in the hot seat over SB5. A member of the council has placed a resolution on tonghts agenda, supporting issue 2. We are hearing that attendance at tonights meeting might break records as members of the community flock to denounce this resolution.

We have heard that council President Dave Samuel is opposed to the resolution, as is At Large council member Tim Pack. We have also heard that the Gahanna Mayor does not support this resolution and will not sign it.

If you live close by, or espeically live in Gahanna, you can attend in person
When: Tonight at 7pm
Where: Gahanna City Hall. 200 South Hamilton. Gahanna, OH 43230

If you can't make it at such short notice, please consider sending a message, before tomorrow nights meeting, in opposition to this resolution to your council representative.

At Large (President) Dave Samuel

Ward 3 (Vice President) Brian Larick

At Large Timothy W. Pack

At Large Nancy McGregor

Ward 1 John McAlister

Ward 2 Shane W. Ewald

Ward 3 Brian Larick

Ward 4 Beryl D. Anderson