A new Ohio law aimed at protecting student athletes after they’ve received a concussion goes into effect today. Last fall, of the more than 46,000 high school football players in the state, 175 were pulled out of games because they got concussions. Of those, 14 were cleared and sent back into play. Under the new [...]
Donald Miralle / Getty Images In April, a new state law intended to protect Ohio student athletes from concussions goes into effect. The new law affects all Ohio schools–public and private, charter and traditional public–as well as youth sports organizations. While schools are taking steps to prevent student-athletes from concussions, some large Ohio school districts fall short in [...]
The Vermilion school board approved a student drug testing policy at its meeting last night. Starting this year, the school will randomly drug test students who want to participate in extracurricular activities or who buy a parking pass. The drug tests will be done by a third party. Neither the Ohio Department of Education nor the Ohio [...]
Mike Hoff / Flickr Girls in the Columbus school district are underrepresented on its sports teams, and the district must do something about the gap between the number of girls in Columbus schools and the number on playing fields, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced this week. The news came as part of [...]
Faced with falling state funding and failed local tax levies, many Ohio school districts have turned to asking students who want to play sports or participate in other extracurricular activities to bear part of the cost. It’s called pay-to-play. About half of Ohio school districts had some type of play-to-play fee in place last school [...]
Tony Alter / Flickr What do you get the high school football team that already has its own live tiger cub mascot? Perhaps its own state-sanctioned state license plate? Only if you’re Massillon. This week the Ohio House approved a bill that would create special “Massillon Tiger Football Booster Club” license plates inscribed with words selected [...]
About half of Ohio school districts now charge some sort of fee for participation in school sports. Those “pay-to-play” fees average $140, and have been climbing as school districts seek ways to trim their budgets in the face of rising spending and falling state funding. But in one school district, an effort to help students [...]
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