State Education News

First day of school busing accomplished quietly (Columbus Dispatch)

Busing, the remedy for decades of intentional segregation in the Columbus school district, began peacefully on Sept. 6, 1979…Read more...

Pickerington school district increases background checks (Columbus Dispatch)

A new policy that went into effect this school year requires volunteers who have unsupervised contact with Pickerington…Read more...

Schools money dispute still unresolved (Newark Advocate)

Licking Heights Local Schools still contends neighboring Reynoldsburg City Schools is withholding more than a million dollars in tax revenues from the district…Read more...

New policy allows Granville students to bring own technology to class (Newark Advocate)

Given the widespread use of iPhones, iPads and laptops among young people, it was only a matter of time…Read more...

Local Education News

Hartville, Lake schools settle annexation issue (Akron Beacon Journal)

The Lake High School complex would be annexed to Hartville as part of the settlement of a lawsuit the village filed against the school board…Read more...

Westerville levy repeal scrubbed from ballot (Columbus Dispatch)

A request to roll back a Westerville schools tax was tossed from the fall ballot yesterday by the Franklin County Board of Elections. All three board members at the meeting agreed to remove the issue after hearing legal arguments from both sides…Read more...

Utica High School students embrace iPads (Newark Advocate)

Students in Charles Smith's physical science classes won't just turn in paper lab reports anymore…Read more...

School districts seek grants to study shared services (Newark Advocate)

Both of the city's school districts on Tuesday approved separate resolutions agreeing to collaborate in an effort to reduce expenses…Read more...

Hands-on civics lesson (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

Nothing else is as important - next to being born or dying - as voting, explained Trumbull County Board of Elections…Read more...

Editorial

Thin blurred line (Akron Beacon Journal)

John Kasich is preparing to unveil a long-delayed new school funding model to address what he considers a key flaw: an imbalance in school spending…Read more...

School cheaters committed fraud (Warren Tribune Chronicle)

Ohio's public school cheating scandal - by administrators, not students or teachers - may be worse than previously thought…Read more...