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Education News for 01-03-2013

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State Education News

  • Green Twp. couple takes reins in Columbus (Cincinnati Enquirer)

    • Lou and Debe Terhar laugh at the suggestion that they are Southwest Ohio’s new power couple in the state capital…Read more...

  • Trainer deal benefits hospital, schools (Columbus Dispatch)

    • After the day’s final bell rings at Fairbanks High School, the student-athletes cram into the locker room, and the wrist tape and ankle wraps soon fly…Read more...

  • Geauga County studying school districts, could consider consolidation (Willoughby News Herald)

    • Will some Geauga County school districts be facing consolidation or other alternatives in light of unrelenting money problems?…Read more...

Local Education News

  • SWL considers its policy for students, staff charging school lunches (Newark Advocate)

    • Southwest Licking Schools might soon have a policy governing the maximum number of meals students in the school-lunch program can charge, even though the amount of unpaid charges were reduced dramatically in November…Read more...

  • Heights must adjust snow removal plans in wake of spending cuts (Newark Advocate)

    • Licking Heights has had to revamp its snow removal policy in the wake of budget reductions, and the move could influence the cleanliness of classrooms…Read more...

  • Response ‘overwhelming’ to armed teacher program (Springfield News-Sun)

    • A free program to train teachers and school administrators on how to use firearms has gotten an overwhelming response…Read more...

  • Attorneys For Teen Charged In Chardon School Shooting Want Trial Moved (WBNS)

    • Attorneys for an Ohio teenager charged in the school shooting deaths of three students are renewing their effort to move the trial out of the grief-stricken community…Read more...

This week in education cuts

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Education cuts should be a wake up call

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While lawmakers begin to debate the administrations reckless budget proposal, it's plain for all to see that a more balanced approach is required to preserve our future, our schools and local economies. This is evident in a number of reports today

Devastating news from Cleveland

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - The Cleveland Metropolitan School Board voted to layoff 835 employees, 643 of those are teachers. The board also voted to close seven schools.

Columbus city also finds itself in trouble

The district is now looking at an estimated $16 million loss under a budget proposal that's being considered by the state legislature, and a potential $6 million loss from local property-tax collections because of falling home values, Harris said after a board meeting tonight.

She said it means that staff cuts are inevitable before the start of school this fall.

Delaware

The $2.5 million in cuts for next school year include eliminating 14 staff positions, limiting field trips and phasing out German and Latin classes.

"We understand, to really be financially able to get what we need, it's going to take a combination of the district making significant cuts and asking the community to support the schools through new money," Backus said.

Hudson

Hudson -- Almost 200 people, many of them wearing the blue union shirts of the Hudson Education Association, listened as the School Board on April 4 voted to eliminate 37 positions before the start of the 2011-12 school year.

The eliminated positions will save the district $2.9 million in salaries and benefits but leave about 34 people out of work, according to Assistant Superintendent Phil Herman.

These cuts should be a wake up call to lawmakers, to consider a more balanced, less reckless approach to the budget.