Online schools don’t have buses and buildings, but that doesn’t mean they’re immune from first day of school hiccups. While the Columbus school district dealt with bus delays and Cleveland told as many as 290 families to show up at a school that doesn’t exist, Ohio’s two largest online schools had a few issues of their [...]
woodleywonderworks / Flickr While educators in some states are fighting to change laws that bar schools from opening before Labor Day, some Ohio school districts are already up and running. And for many districts throughout the state, today is the first day of school. Columbus, Cleveland Cincinnati, South-Western and Olentangy are among the districts starting [...]
K Nicoll / Flickr Teachers work around 195 days a year in their schools. The rest of the year they spend puttering around the house or loafing at the lake or… working. A few options from the help-wanted ads and other sources for those taking the third route: Teach summer school or in a summer enrichment [...]
Ohio state law doesn’t recognize lions, tigers, bears and a monkey with Herpes roaming the neighborhood as an acceptable reason to close schools. That means that the Zanesville-area schools that shut down for a day in October after 56 wild animals were released from a local exotic animal preserve could have to make up that [...]
Chris Parfitt / Flickr Often, when it comes to adjusting the school year, the idea is to extend it. But a bill sitting in the Ohio House Education Committee is intended to do the opposite. And some people don’t think shortening the school year is such a great idea. As introduced, HB 191 would limit the school [...]
Siri Schwartzman / Flickr A bill that would limit the days Ohio schools can be in session to Labor Day through Memorial Day has resurfaced, Gongwer News Service reports, answering the Ohio tourism industry’s wish for longer summers. In the 2010-11 school year, about 95 percent of Ohio schools started before Labor Day. As we [...]
Many people assume that summer vacation came about because families and children had to tend to their farms. Ohio’s top industry is, after all, agriculture. But just ask Assistant Professor Ken Gold with the City University of New York in Staten Island and he’ll tell you that’s not quite the case. There are a number [...]
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