State Education News
- Ex-OSU quarterback needs no resume for state post (Columbus Dispatch)
Gov. John Kasich didn’t get a look at former Ohio State quarterback Stanley Jackson’s playbook before he appointed him to the state Board of Education. Read more...
Local Education News
- Cleveland School District plans to move STEM high school students (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Charter-school treasurer’s accounting questioned in state audit (Columbus Dispatch)
- Streetsboro schools receive $80,000 grant to improve online classroom (Ravenna Record-Courier)
- Summer Meals Program Underway In Mansfield (WMFD)
The Cleveland School District's MC²STEM high school for science, technology, engineering and math plans to move its juniors and seniors to Cleveland State University. Read more...
The state auditor says another charter-school treasurer is responsible for misspending about $170,000 in taxpayer money and has committed ethical misdeeds. Read more...
Streetsboro -- The Streetsboro City School District plans to purchase 30 new computers plus a SMART board with money from an $80,000Blended Learning grant that was awarded to the school system by the Ohio Etech Commission. Read more...
The Mansfield City Schools will again be the vendor for the Ohio Summer Food Service Program in the city. Read more...
Editorial
- A full accounting (Columbus Dispatch)
- State needs to back education mandates with dollars (Marietta Times)
If an investigation proves some Columbus City Schools officials are falsifying student-attendance records to make schools’ performance ratings look better, the district should come clean with the details, however embarrassing. Read more...
Children who don't learn to read at an early age often lag behind their peers throughout school. In extreme cases, they become so frustrated by failure they either stop trying to succeed in the classroom or drop out of school. Read more...