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Education News for 08-24-2012

State Education News

  • Lockland fires superintendent (Cincinnati Enquirer)
  • Lockland's school board voted Thursday night to fire its superintendent and her son – who also worked in the district – becoming the first Ohio district to push out its top administrator over the recent accusations of student records manipulation…Read more...

  • Superintendent, son fired in data-scrubbing scandal (Columbus Dispatch)
  • Lockland’s school board voted last night to fire its superintendent and her son, who also worked in the district, becoming the first Ohio district to push out its top administrator…Read more...

  • Report card delay won’t affect Canton City Schools (Canton Repository )
  • Ohio has delayed the scheduled Aug. 29 release of school report cards amid the state auditor’s investigation…Read more...

  • Schools offer additional data (Cincinnati Enquirer)
  • Ohio’s annual report cards give only a “snapshot” on how high-achieving school districts are performing, complain officials from 10 Greater Cincinnati school systems who are banding together to produce their own reports…Read more...

  • Warrensville Heights school audit finds student fees money is missing (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
  • More than $13,000 in student fees disappeared from the Warrensville Heights school district in the 2009-10 school year, according to a state audit…Read more...

  • Toledo schools defend policy on data (Columbus Dispatch)
  • The Toledo school district continued to erroneously label as dropouts those who missed at least four weeks of school a year, even after someone at the state Department of Education told the district…Read more...

  • Engaging technology prepares schools for new state standards (Hamilton Journal-News)
  • Laptops, iPads and interactive white boards are replacing overhead projectors, textbooks and chalkboards in local classrooms…Read more...

  • Let’s Play the Ohio School Attendance Data Rigging Blame Game (State Impact Ohio )
  • The fingers of blame are pointing every which way as the investigation into whether Ohio schools are improperly manipulating student attendance data to make their state report cards look better unfolds…Read more...

Local Education News

  • Lorain recalls 17 teachers because of high enrollment, retirements in the district (Lorain Morning Journal)
  • A projected enrollment increase and retirements will return 17 teachers to classrooms in Lorain City Schools in an effort to keep classroom sizes low. Ninety-three teachers were notified they’d be out of a job in April…Read more...

  • New program provides netbooks for every Licking Valley High School student (Newark Advocate)
  • Amanda Yates isn't using any textbooks or worksheets in her classroom this year. In fact, the science teacher probably won't be using any paper at all…Read more...

  • Schools Hope Dress Code Changes Will Reduce Classroom Distractions (WBNS)
  • Several schools announced that they have changed the dress codes to prevent distractions in the classrooms…Read more...

  • Six months since the shooting, Chardon High students, staff look forward (Willoughby News Herald)
  • The Chardon High School campus was bustling with activity prior to the first day of school on Thursday. Sports teams gathered on lawns and fields as they concentrated on strategies and skills…Read more...

How deceptive is Rhee’s organization?

A short while ago we brought to your attention the partisan political nature of Michelle Rhee's organization - StudentsFirst.org. The Washington Post brings news today, of the deceptive tactics being used to push their school privatization agenda

Even teachers might be fooled into thinking the organization is all about helping them, when it is actually intended to bring down teachers unions which are often blamed for failing schools by protecting adults. That argument, of course, ignores the fact that the problems are the same in states where teachers are unionized and in states where they aren’t.

Rhee, by the way, appeared Monday at the national school choice summit of the the American Federation for Children, whose board chair is Betsy DeVos.

She is wife of Dick DeVos, who is the son of the co-founder of Amway, and the sister of Erik Prince, founder of the private military contractor once known as Blackwater USA and now called Xe Services LLC.

The DeVos family has spent millions to support efforts to promote vouchers and promote reforms that are furthering the privatization of public education.

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