Education News for 12-04-2012

State Education News

• Unpaid Lunch Charges Grow To $8,000 In Central Ohio School District (WBNS)

The Southwest Licking Local School District is facing a budget problem in its food department. Superintendent Robert Jennell says the district now has $8,000 in unpaid lunch charges from students and staff…Read more...

• Riverside Schools gets SOAR award as 1 of Ohio's most improved districts (Willoughby News Herald)

Riverside School District has been recognized as one of the most improved districts in a statewide program geared at strengthening school and student performance…Read more...

Local Education News

• Chillicothe school board plans levy to close gap (Chillicothe Gazette)

For the Chillicothe City School District to close a looming budget gap, the district and its taxpayers will have to share in the sacrifice…Read more...

• Arlington schools consider options (Columbus Dispatch)

After the Upper Arlington schools’ first levy defeat in decades, district officials are trying to figure out how to plug a budget gap that they say is somewhere between $2 million and $4 million…Read more...

• Licking Heights Begins School Week Without Busing (WBNS)

One of the first cuts following Licking Heights School District's failed levy started Monday morning. Students who typically used district buses to get to school were forced to find an alternative way…Read more...

Education News for 10-26-2012

State Education News

• ACLU wants seclusion-room tactics halted at schools (Columbus Dispatch)

There’s no need for seclusion rooms in Ohio schools and they ought to be phased out within three years, the ACLU of Ohio says…Read more...

• FBI joins probe of schools’ records (Columbus Dispatch)

The FBI has launched its own investigation into the data-scrubbing probe that began with Columbus City Schools and has spread statewide…Read more...

• 2 city schools ranked excellent or above for first time (Springfield News-Sun)

For the first time, two Springfield City elementary schools were ranked as “Excellent” or above on the preliminary Ohio Department of Education report card…Read more...

• Revere BOE OKs new electronic device policy (West Side Leader)

Students with iPads, Kindles, Nooks and other electronic devices will now be able to use them at school for educational purposes…Read more...

Local Education News

• Coleman hears of employers' need for graduates to be 'work-ready' (Columbus Dispatch)

Companies that are developing business in Columbus are placing a higher premium on the talent of the work force…Read more...

• NC'town BOE terminates teacher's contract (New Philadelphia Times)

The Newcomerstown Board of Education voted Wednesday to terminate the teaching contract of sixth-grade teacher Scott Thomas, effective immediately…Read more...

• Riverside teachers earn $9,800 grant for robotics (Willoughby News Herald)

Students at two Riverside schools will spend their time playing with Legos after the Dominion Foundation awarded a grant to the district…Read more...

• City students celebrate programs that begin after dismissal bell rings (Youngstown Vindicator)

More than 150 city elementary- and middle-school students marched along Wood Street, chanting the praises of their schools and the Youngstown Afterschool Alliance…Read more...

Education News for 10-02-2012

State Education News

• Attorneys say T.J. Lane insane at time of Chardon High School shooting (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Lawyers representing the teenager accused of killing three students and wounding three others at Chardon High School earlier this year…Read more...

• Judge says teacher did not deserve to lose license (Columbus Dispatch)

A Columbus special-needs preschool teacher should not have permanently lost her teaching license after her attempt to restrain a 4-year-old student…Read more...

• Districts take innovative approach to teaching algebra (Hamilton Journal-News)

Struggling with algebra in high school often forces many college freshmen to take remedial math classes…Read more...

Local Education News

• Edgewood rolls out tablet program (Hamilton Journal-News)

Edgewood High School’s senior class received their Acer tablets…Read more...

• First-of-its-kind school to open here (Springfield News-Sun)

An agreement signed Monday will create the state’s first academy to train local students for high-paying…Read more...

• Oregon forums to explore shifting of grades (Toledo Blade)

The Oregon school district will hold a series of community forums this month to discuss the possibility of reconfiguring grades…Read more...

• School lunch goes high-tech with point-of-sale cards (Willoughby News Herald)

For many students, that sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach after realizing lunch money has been lost or forgotten is part of the past…Read more...

• Riverside School District will bring back teachers (Willoughby News Herald)

The Riverside School District has laid out exactly what it intends to bring back if voters approve a 3.9-mill levy next month…Read more...

• Will Issue 107 levy help class sizes? (WKYC)

The Cleveland Schools are struggling with large class sizes, but there could be hope with the passage…Read more...

• Schools see drop in real-estate distributions (Youngstown Vindicator)

Howland Local Schools saw a $780,000 drop in its most recent half-year real-estate distributions, Howland schools Treasurer…Read more...

Education News for 08-29-2012

State Education News

• New K-12 standards bring change to teacher colleges too (Cincinnati Enquirer)

New “Common Core” curriculum standards coming to Ohio and 44 other states next year won’t just impact kids. Aspiring teachers – and the colleges that train them...Read more...

• Columbus school board talks ethics in secret (Columbus Dispatch)

In the middle of a state investigation into data rigging, the Columbus school board spent more than three hours behind closed doors last night, talking about ethics and meeting with private attorneys...Read more...

• Riverside School District receiving ODOT grant (Willoughby News Herald)

The Riverside Local School District has been awarded $491,000 from the Ohio Department of Transportation for several projects related to safety. The funds will go toward the district's action plan...Read more...

• Success will continue to drive Youngstown district (Youngstown Vindicator)

City schools Superintendent Connie Hathorn says student success will continue to drive the school district. “... Everything we do, every program we offer, every decision we make” is based on student success...Read more...

Local Education News

• Cleveland kindergartner assigned to nonexistent school gets apology (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Cleveland public schools CEO Eric Gordon had to make a telephone call Tuesday that no school superintendent wants to make. That's a telephone call in which you tell a parent that you're sorry for instructing her young child...Read more...

• Elementary-school students in Upper Arlington chat with astronaut aboard the International Space (Columbus Dispatch)

As she pondered her greatest fear of space travel, the astronaut bobbed up and down in zero gravity, her mass of curly hair a dark halo behind her head...Read more...

• Bus tests help Northridge schools’ plan to cut routes (Columbus Dispatch)

If the bus had made it to his kids’ Licking County school in 30 minutes or less, Bill Jones would have been validated...Read more...

• Young professionals to mentor high school students (Marion Star)

A group of young community-minded individuals preparing to help carry the community into the future is making plans to encourage the next generation to do the same...Read more...

• Urbana Schools offers free breakfast to all students (Springfield News-Sun)

For the first time, all students at Urbana City Schools this year will be eligible to receive breakfast at no cost at the beginning of each school day...Read more...