Suburban News Publications
5/17/2006
By MARK REAL
As I enter the Welcome Center in 95-year-old North High School at 7:15 a.m.
I see young Somali Bantu women in colorful hijabs — Islamic head scarves — and long skirts.
The jewel colors of their tribal garb are a bright contrast to the standard-issue desks and classroom walls. Colorful art projects adorn [...]

Failing schools should use data, embrace change to serve students better
The Columbus Dispatch
5/15/2006
Four years after its inception, the No Child Left Behind law is forcing change in America’s worst schools. Nationwide, about 1,750 schools must be remade with new principals and mostly new teaching staffs because their students’ academic performance has lagged for too long.
As [...]

National education policy expert Kati Haycock, President of Washington, DC-based Education Trust, presented “Hope for America’s Schools: Lessons for Ohio” at the May 10, 2006 Columbus Metropolitan Club Forum.

Survey confirms parents’ desire to escape from Columbus City Schools
The Columbus Dispatch
5/9/2006
If anyone at Columbus Public Schools dismisses charter schools, vouchers and other educational alternatives as a passing fad or short-term challenge, a study by KidsOhio.org should convince them otherwise.
Twenty-one percent of parents surveyed said they want to leave the Columbus schools if they get [...]

 Community thinks district has much to do, study reveals
The Columbus Dispatch
5/7/2006
By Jennifer Smith Richards
“They better get it together, or they will be losing more and more kids.”
Thousands of Columbus Public Schools parents are gone already. But these are the voices of the ones who stayed.
They know what they don’t like about the district.
“The police are [...]