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Education News for 02-14-2013

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State Education News

  • CPS responds on 'data scrubbing' (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • Cincinnati Public Schools Superintendent Mary Ronan on Wednesday downplayed the possibility that the district could lose up to $40 million in state funding…Read more...

  • Kasich education advisers defend school-funding formula (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Gov. John Kasich’s top education advisers told legislators yesterday that they did not attempt to calculate the adequate cost of educating a child…Read more...

  • Budget proposal would fund creative education ideas (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Richard Ross didn’t mince words yesterday about the proposed $300 million “Straight-A” fund for schools, calling it the “single most-important element for change” in Gov. John Kasich’s school-funding formula…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Reynoldsburg, schools to share services of manager (Columbus Dispatch)

    • Reynoldsburg and the city school district will share the services of a human-resources manager…Read more...

  • District to buy 30 new buses for $2.6 million (Hamilton Journal-News)

    • Fairfield City Schools will spend more than $2 million during the next 10 years to purchase 30 new buses to replenish its aging fleet…Read more...

  • East Holmes makes changes in staff, drops German (New Philadelphia Times)

    • The East Holmes Board of Education has voted to realign academic and administrative staff for the 2013-2014 school year to deal with record enrollment at Hiland High and new graduation…Read more...

  • New internal assessments elicit cautious optimism for Toledo Public Schools (Toledo Blade)

    • As Toledo Public Schools found itself mired in public turmoil in recent months, with a search for a new superintendent, a state investigation that criticized attendance reporting practices, and the defeat of another levy…Read more...

  • Elyria City School District to cut 59.5 positions (WEWS)

    • By a unanimous vote the Elyria City School Board approved $3 million in cuts…Read more...

  • Superintendent oversees three districts (WKYC)

    • There is a push in Ohio for schools to share more resources and even people…Read more...

  • Costly lawsuits over school busing problems (WOIO)

    • For eight years now 19 Action News have brought you stories of busing woes in the Nordonia Hills schools…Read more...

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 05-03-2012

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Statewide Education News

  • Is Senior Year of High School a Waste of Time? (State Impact Ohio)

    • The Ohio Board of Regents and the Ohio Department of Education have teamed up to wipe out senioritis. Graduation season is upon us, but many high school seniors have been coasting for months. Ohio education officials hope to change that by revamping the senior year of high school and having students take college classes, do apprenticeships or get technical training. “We have to find a way to maximize the 12th– grade year,” said Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro on WCPN 90.3’s The Sound of Ideas this morning. Read More…

Local Issues

  • Residents give input on future of Youngstown schools (Vindicator)

    • Conversations with small groups continue to gather opinions about the community’s aspirations for city schools. A town-hall meeting will be scheduled for late next month. Part of the academic-recovery plan for Youngstown schools adopted by the academic distress commission and approved by Stan Heffner, state superintendent of public instruction, calls for a community-engagement process “focused on increasing community expectations and aspirations by all students.” Read More…

  • Intermediate students 'on the move' this week with exams, exercise (Newark Advocate)

    • Granville Intermediate School students are having an unusual week this week. It started with exercise, followed by several days of testing and finishes with more exercise.

    And two worthy causes are attached to the latter event. This past Monday, every student in the building did some Zumba, a combination of dance and aerobic elements with some Latin choreography, martial arts and hip-hop. It was led by Zumba fitness instructor Pamela Conn, of Columbus. Read More…

  • Reynoldsburg schools pay $1.4 million to escape exotic investment (Dispatch)

    • The Reynoldsburg school district paid $1.4 million to terminate an interest-rate swap with a financially troubled European bank this year, the same step the New Albany district has taken to shed the exotic investment. The same investment adviser who placed the New Albany schools in a swap that they paid $6.2 million to terminate last month advised Reynoldsburg on its deal. Both deals were signed in 2007 and appear to have worked identically: Read More…

  • Schools will have a choice on ‘pink slime’ (Springfield News Sun)

    • Starting next school year, districts won’t automatically get beef with the substance critics have called “pink slime.” And if districts get it, they’ll know it, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, because they’ll have to ask for it. Grocery chains like Kroger and fast food giants like McDonald’s have stopped serving beef with the product after a public outcry in March. The substance isn’t harmful, according to food scholars and government regulators. Read More…

  • State may take over Monroe schools’ finances (Hamilton Journal News)

    • The state could soon take over financial control of the Monroe School District. Officials with the Ohio Department of Education confirmed Tuesday that Monroe’s fiscal recovery plan was not accepted and they recommended to the state auditor’s office the district be placed into fiscal emergency, which would be a first for any Butler County school system. Read More…