The leaders and groups shaping education policy.
Mister Asta / Flickr Boy, that was quick. A provision to promote abstinence-only education inserted into Ohio’s state budget earlier this week was stripped out yesterday. The Ohio House voted 76-19 yesterday to drop the provision from the budget.
There are three kinds of people who don’t like the Common Core, our colleagues at StateImpact Indiana report. The Common Core is a new set of expectations for what students should know and be able to do in math and English at each grade level. Ohio’s state Board of Education adopted the Common Core in 2010, [...]
The Columbus school district could face state takeover because it improperly altered student records, if a provision inserted into the state budget is approved. The amendment (starting on p. 248) allows the state superintendent to “establish an academic distress commission for any school district that is found by the Auditor of State to have knowingly manipulated [...]
Kent State University President Lester Lefton will retire next summer. Lefton, 66, has served as president of Ohio’s second largest public university since 2006. Lefton previously was provost of Tulane University and held administrative roles at the University of South Carolina and George Washington University. In a written statement, the chairwoman of Kent State’s Board of Trustees [...]
The new head of the Ohio Department of Education doesn’t talk much about the youth. Or the children. Or students, whippersnappers, anklebiters or tots. But he really loves to talk about boys and girls. New State Superintendent of Public Instruction Richard Ross works the phrase “boys and girls” into just about every public comment he [...]
“It’s the next big thing.” Jump to… Common Core Race to the Top No Child Left Behind Standardized Tests Accountability That’s a familiar refrain in K-12 education. And the latest big thing may be bigger than all the others: It’s the Common Core education standards that Ohio and 45 other states are now putting in [...]
Here’s what’s on our calendar this week: Ben K. Adams / Flickr Monday: State schools chief Richard Ross will be in northeast Ohio to officially form the state commission to take over the struggling Lorain school district and to make some sort of “announcement” regarding the Cleveland school district’s request not to be taken over. (If [...]
After 66 years and some location changes, a painting of Jesus that used to hang in the Jackson City school district has been removed. The painting had recently come under fire after the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation received a letter in January complaining about the painting’s presence in the school. The Foundation then sent the district a letter, [...]
The Columbus Education Commission has spent nearly $360,000 in its first three months to research and write a report that will recommend specific ways to improve Columbus schools. Nearly 80 percent of that money has gone to community outreach, public relations and communications firms. The commission plans to spend a total of $1 million — half [...]
Brian Talbot / Flickr State legislators are trying again to give students at public universities a greater say in how their schools are run, Ohio public radio’s Bill Cohen reports. State representatives Michael Stinziano (D-Columbus) and Mike Duffey (R-Worthington) have again introduced a bill that would give student members of the schools’ boards of trustees [...]
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