The Department of Education has awarded several rounds of Race to the Top grants. This competition was a little different. In the past the grants were given to states who awarded the money to districts. This time individual districts had to apply directly to the federal government. Three Ohio districts made it on to a list of [...]
President Obama released his 2013 federal budget today. Well, that budget includes $69.8 billion in education investments. In a call with reporters this afternoon, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis spoke briefly, and broadly about where 8 billion of those dollars would go – into the Community College to Career Fund. Duncan [...]
The number of homeless youth in Ohio is rising, and getting A’s can be tough when you’re looking for a roof to sleep under.
It’s been a year and a half since Ohio won $400 million dollars in the second round of the federal Race to the Top program. The Department of Education has taken a look at Ohio’s progress in the first full school year since then, and officials sounded pretty pleased with the state’s progress in 2010-2011. [...]
Anthony Kelly / Flickr The U.S. Department of Education says school policies against bullying have improved, but still have a long way to go. That’s based on a new report by the Department published today that looked at the 46 states with anti-bullying policies, including Ohio. In a press release sent out with the study, [...]
The U.S. Department of Education ranks each states’ performance in a national report card every other year in what is known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. In Ohio, not much has changed over the last few years. The NAEP tests fourth and eighth graders in reading and math. Ohio saw improvement [...]
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is making his way to Cleveland this afternoon as part of his “Education and the Economy” bus tour through the Midwest. But Michael Yudin, the acting assistant secretary for secondary and elementary education already spent yesterday in town, including much of his afternoon listening the gripes of Cuyahoga County schools’ [...]
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