State Education News
- Little Miami to appeal state ruling on transfers (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- 37 state schools to brainstorm on saving (Columbus Dispatch)
- District warned of fiscal emergency (Youngstown Vindicator)
The financially troubled Little Miami Schools will appeal a state board ruling that may clear the way for a portion of its Warren County district to transfer…Read more...
Officials from all 37 Ohio public colleges and universities are to meet today to discuss how they can reduce costs to students and taxpayers and improve efficiencies…Read more...
Nearly 100 residents, teachers and other school employees packed Mathews High School cafeteria Wednesday evening to hear an Ohio Department of Education official warn about the consequences…Read more...
Local Education News
- Revere reaches contract with workers (Akron Beacon Journal)
- CPS approves teacher evaluation system (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- Cleveland parents get lessons in truancy and curfew dangers (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- School building study discussed (Findlay Courier)
- Drug test program is for volunteers (Warren Tribune Chronicle)
The Revere school board has reached a new contract with one of its unions…Read more...
The Cincinnati school board Wednesday unanimously approved a new teacher evaluation policy that grades teachers on their students' academic growth…Read more...
Missing curfew and being truant might seem like small violations, but if students aren't where they are supposed to be, they're more likely to be in a place where they'll get into trouble…Read more...
The Arcadia school board was given a homework assignment Wednesday to study an analysis of its school facilities…Read more...
The new voluntary random drug testing program at the high school provides students with one more avenue for saying no to drugs, Principal Mary Walker said…Read more...
Editorial
- A flawed attempt at an in-school seclusion policy for Ohio (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Third-grade goal (Columbus Dispatch)
Thank goodness the Ohio Board of Education's first crack at outlining the appropriate use of restraints and seclusion to isolate troubled youngsters is just an ill-conceived draft…Read more...
With a recent vote to set a cut-off score for Ohio’s new “third-grade reading guarantee,” the state Board of Education has drawn a reasonable line for determining which children are struggling…Read more...