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Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee announced today he plans to retire July 1. Gee’s retirement comes less than a week after an earlier Board of Trustees reprimand for comments regarding Catholics and the Southeastern Conference became public. Gee has served as Ohio State president since 2007 and previously served in the same post [...]
Carrollton Schools in rural Carol County hasn’t passed a levy since 1977. Union Local Schools in rural Belmont County hasn’t passed an operating levy since 1976. And the mid 1990′s was the last time officials at Warren Local Schools in rural Washington County managed to pass a levy for new funds to run the district. [...]
Mister Asta / Flickr An amendment added to the state budget bill yesterday prohibits teachers from talking about any “gateway sexual activity” and directs them to emphasize abstinence in sex education. Teachers who don’t comply could be fined up to $5,000 if the measure passes. So just what is “gateway sexual activity?” House members deferred to [...]
“If you are poor you’re going to get more, if you’re richer you’re going to get less,” Governor John Kasich said when he first introduced his new school funding formula.
Much of the talk about Gov. John Kaich’s 2013 budget proposal has focused on a new way to divvy up state funding among K-12 schools. But that’s not all the budget does. Among the other changes slated to be included in Kasich’s budget legislation: Giving more school districts additional flexibility to move away from traditional [...]
Governor John Kasich’s new plan to fund schools was greeted with a sigh of relief yesterday. It promises no cuts to schools, and instead plans to invest $1.2 billion in education over the next two years. But now, school superintendents and education advocates are left with a lot of questions.
A new report from Policy Matter Ohio, a liberal think tank, found that some charter schools that have been ordered to close for poor performance have managed to stay open with largely the same staff, and often in the same location, just under a different name. Ohio’s charter school closure laws were tightened a couple [...]
This time last year, Ohio airwaves were flooded with political ads urging people to vote for or against Senate Bill 5. That was the state law that would have curbed public employees’ ability to collectively bargain, and it lost – big. After that election, many teachers decided they want to become a more direct part of [...]
Coming Up This Week Tuesday: Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding event in Powell featuring Diane Ravitch. Tuesday: Ohio Department of Education to release the rest of the “preliminary” school report-card data, including school and district letter grades. Wednesday-Thursday: National conference on educator misconduct hosted in Cincinnati. Includes panels on cheating, sexual abuse.
Charter school teachers, sponsors and advocates are gathered in Columbus this week for the annual charter schools conference. StateImpact Ohio is there as well, and got a chance to sit down for a chat with Greg Richmond, the president of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers. NASCA’s members oversee roughly half of all the [...]
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