And this Election Day, there’s seven contested races across the state looking to fill open seats on the board.
Eleven BOE members are elected, while eight additional members are appointed by Gov. Kasich. Each member’s four-year term is staggered, meaning about half of the board must run for re-election or be re-appointed every two years.
This fall, we asked each of the 22 candidates to submit a headshot and a few words about why they’re running.
Economists, politicians and pundits often talk about the minimum wage in terms of whether it will support a family, but data analyst Rich Exner of the Northeast Ohio Media Group takes a different angle: how much college education can the minimum wage buy? His findings are not surprising: Back in the 1970s and early 80s a person could essentially cover the cost of college (tuition, fees, room and board) working a minimum wage job. Today, not even close. The analysis assumes – then and now – full time work during fall and spring breaks and during the summer, and 10 hours per week while school is in session.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A minimum wage job used to be enough to cover the cost of college. But now that job can leave students several thousand dollars short. In fact, a student would have to make close to $18 an hour working full-time during both breaks and the summer, and 10 hours a week throughout each semester, to pay the bill at most public universities in Ohio.
Dual language education programs are gaining more attention these days for turning out students who are not only bi-lingual, but also show enviable achievement gains. Chike Erokwu of the Mansfield News Journal profiles the Mansfield Spanish Immersion School, and elementary school that started seven years ago. The number of students attending is small but growing year-by-year. It’s among the state’s top performers in student test scores on the Ohio school report card, ranking 47th out of 3,310 Ohio public schools.
Tuesday began like every other day for Joyce Segura and her kindergarten class. Segura, a teacher in Mansfield’s Spanish Immersion School, began her daily lesson by teaching her kindergarteners a new song: “Al Corro De Los Flores.” Segura acted out key phrases as the song played over her small classroom stereo.
Lots of publications release college ranking lists—there’s U.S. News, Forbes, and handfuls of other outlets. And now, the federal government’s getting in the game. The details still aren’t concrete, but the U.S. Department of Education will eventually release a ranking system to analyze how the country’s colleges are performing. And as NPR’s Education Team asks, this situation raises a question: “what should a consumer-friendly, reliable college rating and ranking system look like?”
For years, Washington Monthly has been rating and ranking the nation’s colleges. But for its 2014 edition, the magazine has done something new. It has put out a list of what it says are the nation’s worst colleges. That is, schools with high tuition, low graduation rates and high student debt rates.
Officials in Cleveland are tracking down those who may have come into contact with Amber Joy Vinson, the second Dallas nurse to be diagnosed with Ebola. Vinson flew on a Frontier Airlines flight from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday while she was running a 99.5 degree fever.
Next year school report cards will come later than the usual late August roll out, according to a report this week by Plain Dealer reporter Patrick O’Donnell. That’s because the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), won’t be setting new testing cut scores – the minimum score needed for a passing grade – until next fall. PARCC tests will be given to all students in Ohio for the first time this spring, and school evaluations will hinge on how students perform on those tests.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Results of how your kids do on the new Common Core tests that they’ll take at school this spring won’t be available for months – possibly not until 2016. Forget seeing state report cards for schools and districts by their normal late August time next year, said Tom Gunlock, vice chairman of Ohio’s state school board.
This November 4th voters in Cleveland will decide whether to keep money flowing to replace or upgrade school buildings.
Issue 4 on the Cleveland ballot asks voters to approve selling bonds to extend a school construction run that began in 2001.
Back then, a roof collapse at East High School set in motion a levy campaign to raise 380 million dollars through to address the decrepit state of school buildings all around the city.
Nearly half the teachers in the classroom said in August that have not been adequately prepared to teach to the Common Core – learning standards that emphasize reasoning over rote memorization.
That national survey got us wondering if the next generation of teachers is getting the prep they need.
An Ohio House committee held a rare evening hearing to once again discuss a controversial bill that would repeal the state’s education standards — known as the Common Core.
A panel of lawmakers have heard and received testimony from about 200 people regarding the effort to repeal the Common Core.
Lawmakers scheduled the meeting at night to get the perspective from teachers.
In 2002, President George W. Bush signed the “No Child Left Behind” bill into law. The policy’s goal was to make sure every student hit the required benchmark of proficiency for their grade level. But as NPR’s Education Team reports, that hasn’t exactly been the case over the past 12 years.
Take yourself back to those highly emotional, patriotic months after the 9/11 attacks. In the midst of war, terrorism, fear and mourning, one bill passed 87-10 in the Senate and by a similar margin in the House – with equal support from both sides of the aisle.
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