Local Issues

Catholic schools plan inner-city tuition fund (Dayton Daily News)

Catholic school officials are working to create a “sustainable fund” to pump cash into financially struggling urban elementary schools in the Dayton area, the first step toward a regional need-based tuition-assistance program. Read More...

Board of Education votes to accept recommendations of Independent Fact-Finder (WOIO - Cleveland)

Following the May 29 release of an independent Fact-Finder's recommendations, made to resolve changes in contract language between the Cleveland Board of Education and the Cleveland Teachers Union, the Board voted tonight to accept the Fact-Finder's recommendations. Read More...

City schools need 9.15 mills (Dispatch)

Columbus City Schools need 9.15 new mills to raise the $355 million that the district says would maintain current programs and fund new ones through the summer of 2017, officials told a special “ millage committee” yesterday. That would cost taxpayers about $280 extra for each $100,000 in property value, and doesn’t include possible extra mills for construction bonds. Read More...

Cleveland Schools Board of Education backs plan to cut teachers' holidays, professional development days (Plain Dealer)

The Cleveland school board and Cleveland Teachers Union leaders don't agree on a possible solution to their pay dispute -- one that would close about $13 million of the district's projected $19 million deficit next school year. Read More...

Debt linked to ex-charter school treasurer grows (Dayton Daily News)

Another $52,000 was heaped onto the debt owed to taxpayers by embattled former area charter school treasurer Carl Shye with the release Thursday of the final audit New City Community School in Dayton.
This is the 18th state audit in which Shye is accused of mishandling public funds, putting the total owed to $819,369, according to state data. He was indicted last month on federal charges of embezzling $472,579 from four Ohio schools, including New City and another Dayton school. Read More...

Student Goes From Homeless to Harvard (Fox 8 – Cleveland)

David Boone, 18, walks the halls of Cleveland’s MC2STEM High School in his navy blue blazer, looking like a young man who owns the world. Chances are good that’s the kind of success he will find one day, not only because of where he’s going but because of where he’s been. “Childhood is childhood. You live, you learn, and sometimes some challenges are thrown at you,” he said. Read More...

Team will try to line up record 75 miles of pennies (Dispatch)

At 6:30 a.m. Sunday, an armored truck will arrive at the Columbus Arts Festival and an off-duty police officer will stand guard over its weighty contents: 1,275 bags of pennies. The 30-pound sacks will be distributed across Genoa Park, where more than 2,000 students and other volunteers will wait with plastic cups to be filled with the coins. Read More...

The price of pay-to-play (Enquirer)

Kendall Knudson knows first hand the pain of soaring pay-to-play high-school sports fees. Those fees sidelined the Lakota East sophomore – and countless other area teens – this spring. What’s more, Kendall is forced to think about Lakota Schools’ record-high $550 fee per sport whenever she huddles with her former teammates prior to a track meet to cheer them on. Then she takes a disappointing walk to the stadium stands to watch. Read More...