State Education News
- Educators line up to tour Reynoldsburg (Columbus Dispatch)
- Ohio’s bookkeeping improved, 2012 audit finds (Columbus Dispatch)
- Area schools named Schools of Promise (Lima News)
- 21 Mahoning Valley schools designated Schools of Promise (Youngstown Vindicator)
If you’re an educator who wants to tour Reynoldsburg schools, you’re going to have to wait until fall. The district leads about two tours a week for educators from around the country and across the world, and they’re booked for months…Read more...
If not for the state’s massive Medicaid health-care program, there would be little to talk about in this year’s annual audit of Ohio’s financial records…Read more...
Many pieces go into determining whether a pupil finds academic success, and Superintendent Dale Lewellen believes it’s why both Bath's elementary and high schools landed on the state’s…Read more...
Twenty-one Mahoning Valley schools have earned the designation “School of Promise” for the 2011-12 school year from the Ohio Department of Education…Read more...
Local Education News
- Ashtabula City Council tweaks curfew laws (Ashtabula Star-Beacon)
- Huron school board upholds firing former Superintendent Fox (Lorain Morning Journal)
The children spoke and City Council heard them…Read more...
A majority of Huron School Board members voted last night to uphold their firing of former Superintendent Fred Fox, despite a mediator’s report last month that said Fox should be reinstated with back pay…Read more...
Editorial
- Out of Akron (Akron Beacon Journal)
- Clarity on school funding urgently needed (Canton Repository)
For the past several years, Akron Public Schools administrators have been engaged in an exercise they refer to as “right-sizing” the district. They have closed several school buildings and laid off staff members, including principals, teachers…Read more...
Nothing about Gov. John Kasich’s proposed two-year budget is simple. It’s filled with fundamental changes in the way state government operates, and he faces opposition…Read more...