State Education News
- Ohio adopts student restraint, seclusion policy (Canton Repository)
- Allison named Canton City Schools superintendent; gets 5-year contract (Canton Repository)
- Key district official in data-rigging case retires (Columbus Dispatch)
- Schools’ use of seclusion now limited (Columbus Dispatch)
- Gov. Kasich says his comprehensive school plan will be delivered shortly (NPR)
- OPATA offering free training for educators (Portsmouth Daily Times)
- State says former treasurer must repay school (Youngstown Vindicator)
The Ohio Board of Education has approved a policy on how educators seclude and physically restrain students in schools…Read more...
Nearly 64 years after his grandfather became the first black employee hired in the district, as a janitor, Adrian Allison becomes its first black superintendent…Read more...
In a flurry of developments yesterday, a key figure in the investigation of Columbus City Schools’ data-rigging retired; the Board of Education gave a cool reception to Mayor Michael B. Coleman’s request to critique district business operations…Read more...
State Board of Education members say their seclusion and restraint policy isn’t perfect, but they’re proud to have done something to protect Ohio’s children…Read more...
Gov. Kasich has signed a bill into law that grades schools on an A through F grading scale. But as Ohio Public Radio’s Jo Ingles reports, that’s a part of a bigger education plan that the Governor intends to release soon…Read more...
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine says more training opportunities for Ohio’s educators have now been scheduled…Read more...
A state audit has revealed excess payments to the retirement fund of the school district’s former treasurer…Read more...
Local Education News
- North Canton takes proactive security steps in schools (Canton Repository)
- Looking at the bottom line, Heath schools open doors (Columbus Dispatch)
- After-school shooting sends boy to youth prison (Columbus Dispatch)
- City schools board enters agreement for energy savings (Mansfield News Journal)
- County delays decision on school funding (Springfield News-Sun)
- Schools to cash in (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
- Columbus City Schools Hopes To Have New Superintendent In 6 Months (WBNS)
- Ohio school workers to carry guns have police training (WEWS)
- Superintendent, board respond to concerns about enrollment at Austintown (Youngstown Vindicator)
After the horrific school shooting in Newtown, Police Chief Stephan Wilder feared a copycat gunman could strike here…Read more...
Less than 24 hours after the board agreed to allow open enrollment at Heath City Schools, a parent sat in the district parking lot filling out applications…Read more...
A 15-year-old boy who fired a gun outside an East Side elementary school, grazing the head of a 17-year-old girl, was committed to the Ohio Department of Youth Services yesterday…Read more...
Mansfield City Schools could save “tens of thousands of dollars” in energy expenses through a new program, Superintendent Dan Freund said…Read more...
Clark County commissioners delayed a decision about contributing $100,000 to the Global Impact STEM Academy due in part to uncertainty about the project…Read more...
Area schools are cashing out. Local school districts soon will receive the first payment of casino-tax revenue, with some districts set to take in more than $110,000…Read more...
The Columbus School Board is meeting Tuesday night with the firm that has been hired to lay out the process for searching and hiring a new superintendent. The goal is to have someone hired in six months…Read more...
Two of the four employees who have agreed to carry guns at a rural Ohio school apparently have law enforcement backgrounds…Read more...
Open enrollment was the hot-button topic at the Austintown school board meeting…Read more...
Editorial
- Aiming to excel (Akron Beacon Journal)
As a national monitor for effective and high quality education, Education Week’s annual Quality Counts surveys are a valuable resource in comparative data…Read more...