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May 15, 2013

Cleveland School District Moves Towards Performance Pay

Last night the Cleveland school board unanimously agreed to what city and union officials are hailing as a groundbreaking teacher contract for Ohio. Union members will vote later this month. The contract spells out a new basis for teacher pay hikes. Raises merely for lasting another year in the job are out; so are automatic [...]

May 3, 2013

Common Core Testing Problems Crop Up In Other States

Several states have already started field testing the new Common Core computer-based assessments. And some of those tests didn’t go quite as smoothly as people had hoped. According to Education Week, there were problems with testing in Indiana, Minnesota, Kentucky and Oklahoma. Thousands of students experienced slow loading times of test questions, students were closed [...]

April 30, 2013

Report Finds Steep Decline in Enrollment and Spending in Ohio Preschool

A decade ago, more than twice as many Ohio children were enrolled in the state’s preschool program than now. According to a recent report by the National Institute for Early Education Research, in 2011-2012 total state enrollment for preschool was 9,379. The state only paid for 5,700 of those students; the rest were paid for by parents, local [...]

April 29, 2013

Cincinnati Student in Critical Condition After Shooting Himself in Class

A student at La Salle High School in Cincinnati is in critical condition after he pulled out a gun during class this morning and shot himself in the head. The student was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and school officials say all other students at the Catholic all-boys school are safe. School spokesman [...]

April 23, 2013

Three Tips for Surviving the OAAs

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Stan Carroll / The Commercial Appeal/Landov Students across Ohio take the Ohio Achievement Assessments in reading, math and science this week. They’re kind of a big deal. These state tests:

April 11, 2013

Opposition to National Common Core Standards Grows in Ohio

Opposition to the Common Core is growing in Ohio and other states, including Indiana, XX and Florida, where this protester lives.

Michelle Maitino volunteers at her daughters’ school. She checks their homework, volunteers in in the library, and keeps in touch with their teachers. But until recently, she didn’t know that a new, national set of standards called the Common Core was coming to her daughters’ Catholic school. “It’s a whole new curriculum but no one [...]

April 8, 2013

State Takeover Begins in Lorain; Cleveland Schools Granted Exemption

The state’s top education official was in Northeast Ohio today to announce the fate of two local school districts: Cleveland and Lorain. Both were slated for state takeovers following years of poor academic performance, but the state will only take over only one district. After years of getting Fs on its state report cards and failing to [...]

March 29, 2013
March 27, 2013

Cleveland School District Requests Exemption from State Takeover

It’s no secret that the Cleveland school district hasn’t been doing so well. The writing of a state takeover was on the wall when the district teamed up with the mayor’s office and the governor to pass House Bill 525, aka The Cleveland Plan. Still, under state law when a district gets the equivalent of [...]

March 21, 2013
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