State Education News
- Ohio now restricts school’s use of seclusion rooms, physical restraint (Athens Messenger)
For the first time, Ohio has a policy that limits a school’s use of seclusion and restraint for difficult students. Schools must now adopt positive behavior interventions and support…Read more…
- School rules guide whistle-blowers (Columbus Dispatch)
Amid a statewide investigation into data manipulation in schools, districts are creating rules to guide employees if they want to report workers who violate laws or ethics.…Read more…
- Schools await Kasich’s funding model (Lima News)
They want more money and a school-funding system that is fair. But area school officials also just hope for a little honesty.…Read more…
- Turning the page (Mason HS Chronicle)
More third graders than ever before could be held back next year. Due to recent legislation that alters current reading level standards for the 2013-14 school year.…Read more…
- Ranking brings school funding model under scrutiny (Middletown Journal)
Ohio recently was ranked 17th in the nation for its school finance, despite the fact that Ohio’s school funding model has been declared unconstitutional three times since 1997.…Read more…
Local Education News
- Could shared services save Ohio districts $1B a year? (Cincinnati Enquirer)
State leaders are urging school districts, like other local government agencies, to share services and costs, operate more efficiently and reserve more tax dollars for core purposes.…Read more…
- Board, referee clash over teacher firing (Findlay Courier)
A Liberty-Benton veteran teacher, fired this week by the school board, should not have been terminated because the board failed to provide documented evidence for its claim that he had a history of classroom management problems…Read more…
- School patrols increase (Lisbon Morning Journal)
Ever since last month's school shooting in Newtown, Conn., sheriff's deputies have been performing security checks during the school day at five school districts.…Read more…
- Safer schools start with information (New Philadelphia Times)
School districts in Tuscarawas, Carroll, Harrison and Belmont counties are being offered free technology that would assist first responders dealing with emergencies at area schools.…Read more…
- Kiwanis takes stand against bullying (Portsmouth Daily Times)
The Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth has taken a stand against bullying and did so with a recent presentation by club president John Johnson.…Read more…
- Deputies could be added to help with Clark schools (Springfield News-Sun)
New Clark County sheriff’s deputies could be hired as part of a program to boost security in schools, a local response to the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shootings.…Read more…
- Boosters, PTO slate reception for new superintendent (This Week News)
The Northridge Academic Boosters and Northridge PTO invite the community to a "Welcome to Northridge" for new Superintendent Dr. Chris Briggs.…Read more…
- Chardon Schools' installation of security cameras now almost complete (Willoughby News Herald)
Chardon School District’s goal of installing technologically advanced security cameras in and around all of its buildings is nearing completion.…Read more…
- Liberty schools expecting another audit (Youngstown Vindicator)
Liberty schools are awaiting another report from Ohio Auditor David Yost, after a 2011 financial audit was released earlier this week, schools Superintendent Stan Watson said.…Read more…
Editorial
- Alert to danger (Akron Beacon Journal)
Last week, at the first of five regional training sessions, educators and law enforcement officers received graphic and sometimes emotional lessons about how to respond to the kind of shooting incidents that have gripped the nation’s attention.…Read more…
- Alone in school (Akron Beacon Journal)
Think of isolation rooms and physical restraints, and the mind goes not to schools but to prison cells for violent criminals or to efforts to prevent mentally unstable patients from hurting themselves or others.…Read more…
- Right direction (Columbus Dispatch)
With a new State Board of Education policy limiting the use of “seclusion rooms” for students whose behavior is out of control, Ohio schools and students will be better off than they were before.…Read more…
- Good start (Findlay Courier)
Limiting access to Findlay's elementary buildings won't stop all unwelcome visitors. But it should help. …Read more…
