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Education News for 11-27-2012

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State Education News

  • Kasich offers Coleman help with school reform (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Gov. John Kasich pledged to assist Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman with efforts to reform the city’s school system, much like the support he gave this year to Cleveland…Read more...

  • New buildings may doom school levies in elections (Dayton Daily News)

    • Voters who approved bond issues in recent years to build new schools rejected requests for new operating levies in those same districts earlier this month…Read more...

  • Title IX 40th anniversary: High school, college athletes, coaches see benefits and challenges (Willoughby News Herald)

    • As an All-Ohio volleyball player at Lake Catholic High School as well as a University of Florida recruit, Abby Detering has felt the effects of Title IX. And she likes what the future holds…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Bomb threat holds up Dublin classes (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Dublin school officials took the unusual step of delaying the start of school throughout the district yesterday after emails said there were bombs in several buildings…Read more...

  • Free school lunch numbers continue to rise (Hamilton Journal-News)

    • During the past decade, the percentage of students participating in the Free and Reduced Lunch program has nearly doubled in some Butler County school districts…Read more...

  • Reynoldsburg Police Pull Dare Officer Out Of Schools (WBNS)

    • The new administration at the Reynoldsburg Police Department has decided to implement term limits for its school resource officer…Read more...

  • Teens steal iPads, laptops (WEWS)

    • Eleven iPads were stolen from an Akron middle school…Read more...

Education News for 09-06-2012

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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...

Education News for 07-18-2012

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Local Issues

  • Brecksville-Broadview Heights school board meeting draws hundreds as teacher negotiations continue (Sun News)

    • Emotions ran high at the July 17 Brecksville-Broadview Heights Board of Education, as teachers, parents and residents asked tough questions of the board in front of a crowd about 300 people. Jeff Luce, who recently resigned from his post as Advanced Placement math teacher at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School after 18 years, said he was concerned the board would bypass more qualified teachers for younger — and less expensive — educators. Read more...

  • No mediation sessions yet slated in NB contract talks (Findlay Courier)

    • NORTH BALTIMORE - North Baltimore school officials and the teachers' union are checking their calendars to arrange a date for a mediator to join stalled contract talks. An impasse in negotiations was declared recently and a mediator was contacted. "We're waiting for dates they have available," Eve Baldwin, the school district's treasurer and a member of the board's negotiating team, said Tuesday. Vacation schedules have made arranging a date challenging. Read more...

  • New Lex students to get iPads through lease deal (Times Recorder)

    • NEW LEXINGTON - Summer's end might be unwelcome, but New Lexington High School students will have a something to ease their pain this year -- free iPads. New Lexington City Schools recently signed a three-year lease with Apple. The district will pay $416,316 -- three payments of $138,772 -- and in return will receive 600 32GB iPads with WiFi. That equates to about $690 per iPad over the three-year lease. That's more than the $599 list price to buy a new iPad outright, but the New Lex deal also comes with a two-year protection plan. Read more...

  • District adds business chief (Tribune Chronicle)

    • WARREN - A former superintendent from Trumbull County is returning to the area to work at the city school district - as its executive director of business operations. Warren City Schools Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously appointed Michael Wasser of McDonald to the post. He was awarded a one-year contract, which provides an annual salary of roughly $90,000, effective July 23, 2012, through June 30, 2013. Wasser is replacing Michael Notar, who moved from the position to the high school principal's seat earlier this year. Read more...

Editorial

  • Promising plan (Findlay Courier)

    • Suppose, with one good idea, we could: Decide the fate of Findlay's Central Middle School after students move out this winter? Keep at least part of the beloved old school around for our lifetimes? Save a key property from becoming an embarrassing, gaping hole in Findlay's downtown, and huge parking lot for no one in particular? This seems to be the promise of a plan for a performing arts center built around the Central Middle School auditorium and unveiled to the public via the Findlay Board of Education. Read more...

Education News for 12-16-2011

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Statewide Education News

  • Midyear cut in federal funding hits schools (Blade)

    • A midyear cut in federal funds now leaves Toledo Public Schools with little wiggle room and facing possible future program cuts. The funding loss -- nearly $500,000 for Toledo's public, private, and charter schools -- came after congressional budget reduction deals led to about $8 million less federal money for Ohio schools. The cuts came largely to Title I funding, which is federal money dedicated to high-poverty schools. Read More…

  • School districts form 2 groups to save cash (Dispatch)

    • The Ohio Department of Education awarded grants yesterday to two consortiums of school districts teaming up to coordinate transportation services and computer purchases to save money. “Better use of scarce public resources is a key element for improving Ohio’s educational system,” said Stan Heffner, superintendent of public instruction. “The grant proposal(s) not only will save money for area taxpayers, but also will be example(s) for other schools to follow.” Read More…

Local Issues

  • Buzzers To Help Hilliard Schools Track Visitors (WBNS 10 CBS)

    • HILLIARD - Hilliard City Schools plans to install new security measures at all 14 of its elementary schools by the new year. Officials said that they want to know who is in their buildings at all times, and plans to install buzzers to let visitors and parents in the buildings. The buzzer at Ridgewood Elementary School was installed over Thanksgiving and the others plan to be installed before students return from winter break, CrimeTracker 10's Maureen Kocot said. Read More…

  • District awarded grant to purchase iPads for students (Journal News)

    • FAIRFIELD — Before the end of the 2011-12 school year, students in the Fairfield City School District will get an opportunity to use iPads in the classroom. The district was awarded a $20,000 grant by the Duke Energy Foundation at Thursday night’s Board of Education meeting for the purchase of iPads for student use. Read More…

Editorial

  • Budget cuts will cost us later (L.A. Times)

    • There's such a thing as tightening our collective belt or making do with less. When that happens, Californians raise fees or close another public office for a few additional days or cram a few more students into an already full classroom without screaming too loudly about it. But something entirely different is happening now: California is becoming a state that lets down its elderly, its disabled, its children and its college students in fundamental ways that will harm all of us in the years ahead. Read More…

Thanks to ODE for compiling todays news.