New study explains exodus from Columbus schools
The Columbus Dispatch
10/22/2005
By Jennifer Smith Richards
Dear Gene,
Your people never listened to us. They never paid attention to our children. They let things get out of control at school. Our kids aren’t safe.
They wouldn’t help our needy kids or challenge our gifted ones. We don’t love you anymore.
So we’re leaving.
Goodbye,
The […]

 New study explains exodus from Columbus schools
The Columbus Dispatch
10/22/2005
By Jennifer Smith Richards
Dear Gene,
Your people never listened to us. They never paid attention to our children. They let things get out of control at school. Our kids aren’t safe.
They wouldn’t help our needy kids or challenge our gifted ones. We don’t love you anymore.
So we’re leaving.
Goodbye,
The […]

 New report recommends making cuts by fall 2007
The Columbus Dispatch
10/18/2005
By Bill Bush
The Columbus Dispatch
The Columbus Public Schools need to shed about 1,000 employees - about 10 percent of their full-time work force - by fall 2007, according to a report that is to be presented to the Board of Education today.
And more than half of […]

 The Columbus Dispatch
10/9/2005
By Jennifer Smith Richards
The Columbus Dispatch
It’s a guessing game.
More art than science.
Too new to predict anything with accuracy.
Columbus Public Schools leaders say they’re trying, but it’s difficult to pinpoint how many students will leave the district each year for charter schools.
The district says it began forecasting how many would leave last spring, when […]

 The Columbus Dispatch
10/9/2005
Students are leaving by the thousands, but you wouldn’t know it at these schools
By Bill Bush
Liberty Elementary School belies the image that many have of Columbus Public Schools. Although the district’s enrollment is down sharply because of defections to charter schools, the school near Reynoldsburg faces a different problem - far too many […]