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Many universities have contracts with banking institutions to handle financial aid disbursements or to link students’ school IDs to debit accounts. Some, like the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, have criticized these contracts for duping students into ominous banking relationships riddled with fees. Universities defend the deals, saying they make financial transactions easier for both [...]
After weeks of delay, the State Board of Education has decided to release preliminary report card data on school districts and buildings. Report cards were supposed to come out weeks ago, but they’ve been held up because Ohio schools are under investigation by the state auditor, who wants to know which ones falsified attendance records. That [...]
Cliff / Flickr The approximately 100 schools under state scrutiny for altering student attendance data include schools in three central Ohio school districts, CentralOhio.com reports. Marion City, Elgin and Newark are all part of the state auditor’s investigation. Ohio Department of Education staff helped investigators in the state auditor’s office identify schools with high numbers of [...]
Earlier this month, Higher One agreed to make restitution of $11 million to college students for overcharging them in debit card fees and other ways. According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which regulates such banking agreements, Higher One also has to pay a $110,000 civil fine and must change the way it imposes fees on [...]
The State Board of Education spent much of last summer searching for a new superintendent of public instruction. Now, the Board has to search again.
School levies around the state did not fair well in Tuesday’s election. Twenty-five failed, 10 passed, and one was pulled from the ballot. If you’re keeping score, that means more than 70 percent of school levies failed. Schools have struggled to get levies passed in the last few elections, and there’s a pretty easy explanation [...]
Molly Bloom / StateImpact Ohio Today, voters in 34 school districts across Ohio face elections on their local school districts’ tax rates. Most of those elections are for new taxes, mostly in the form of property taxes rather than income taxes. Expect to see dozens more school levies on the November ballot though, including levies in Cleveland, [...]
J.D. Pooley / Getty Images In August, voters in 35 school districts will have the opportunity to weigh in on their local school districts’ tax rates. There are actually 36 school issues on ballots for the August 7 special election, according to the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office. (One school district has two issues.) All [...]
Just three months ago, we told you about the laundry list of ways Gov. John Kasich wanted to change education in Ohio. The two policy changes in Kasich’s 2012 education bill that got the most attention were a proposed third grade reading guarantee and a new way of grading schools. But there’s more than that [...]
It seems like bullying is in the news constantly these days, from documentaries focusing on the problem in schools to news reports of victims committing suicide or shooting their classmates. But is bullying really the epidemic some describe it to be? When news of the shootings at Chardon High School in Northeast Ohio first broke [...]
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