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The mayor wants to give his hand-picked superintendent the power to reassign bad teachers, reshape failing schools and stagger class times without union contract barriers.
Mayor Frank Jackson, the only Ohio mayor who controls schools throu…
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The tally of students with disabilities who attend private schools using vouchers is about 30,000 nationwide, a new report from the Alliance for School Choice …
Continue Reading →NEW YORK (AP) — For some school kids around the country, the odds have been ever (and awesomely!) in their favor as they’ve scored the ultimate field trip — an outing to “The Hunger Games.”
“All of my friends who don’t go to my school are all re…
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio (AP) — Kenzie Purtell wants to be a nurse. Lagging in math skills when she hits college would only slow her down.
So when a college readiness test showed the 17-year-old Reynoldsburg High School senior would have to take makeup …
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — A school district blames human error on educators’ failure to keep track of a special-needs home-schooled girl who later died from neglect, and a newspaper reports that state law provides no ramifications for such slip-ups…
Continue Reading →Published Online: March 14, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Unified school board on Tuesday approved plans to ask voters for a parcel tax and employees for salary cuts to close a $390 million budget deficit, as several hundred employees …
Continue Reading →By Carine Candisky, The Columbus Dispatch , Ohio (MCT)
Gov. John Kasich today “begged” the Ohio Board of Education to support Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s plan to overhaul education that could be used as a model in urban school districts acr…
By Carine Candisky, The Columbus Dispatch , Ohio (MCT)
Gov. John Kasich today “begged” the Ohio Board of Education to support Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s plan to overhaul education that could be used as a model in urban school districts acr…
By Carine Candisky, The Columbus Dispatch , Ohio (MCT)
Gov. John Kasich today “begged” the Ohio Board of Education to support Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s plan to overhaul education that could be used as a model in urban school districts acr…
Roma Chokshi, a junior at Springfield High School in Springfield, Ohio, participates in a special program at her school that allows high-achieving students the opportunity to take additional courses online, which she can work on at home, above.
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