State Education News
- Big changes could be coming to transfer rule (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Teachers get training on how to cope with shooter (Columbus Dispatch)
- Yost seeks periodic head count of students (Columbus Dispatch)
The word "transfer" appears 58 times in the Ohio High School Athletic Association bylaw covering eligibility…Read more...
Like tornado and fire drills, lockdowns have become common practice in schools…Read more...
Conducting official head counts of schoolchildren several times a year would discourage the “ scrubbing” of student data, the state auditor says…Read more...
Local Education News
- Southeastern, Piketon schools honored for clean audit reports (Chillicothe Gazette)
- Local teachers train to handle active shooters (Dayton Daily News)
- Local schools wrestle with cost of security (WKYC)
- City schools facing $48 million deficit (Youngstown Vindicator)
State Auditor Dave Yost has announced a pair of local school governmental bodies have been presented the Auditor of State Award for clean audit reports…Read more...
The first group of 200 Ohio teachers were trained on Thursday about how to handle an active shooter situation in a school and hundreds more have signed up for upcoming classes…Read more...
Schools across the country are developing plans to avoid tragedies like Sandy Hook but increased security comes with increased costs…Read more...
The city school district is facing a $48 million deficit by 2017 without reductions or additional revenue, according to its five-year forecast…Read more...
Editorial
- Ohio searches for that elusive set of tests that does it all (Youngstown Vindicator)
The controversy over how and when to test Ohio students has been going on for 20 years, and rather than being settled, it is entering yet another iteration…Read more...