District could benefit by leasing buildings to charter schools The Columbus Dispatch 12/16/2006 Jennifer Smith Richards While central Ohio charter schools have scrounged for buildings – settling on warehouses, empty big box stores and even at an old go-cart track – Columbus Public Schools’ surplus buildings were off-limits. After all, why would the district help [...]

 The Columbus district was not chosen to sponsor schools. Suburban News Publication 11/29/2006 Garth Bishop It’s official: The Knowledge Is Power Program, known for its high-performing charter schools, is coming to Columbus. Though it will not be sponsored by Columbus Public Schools, as some district officials had hoped, a program official said it is open [...]

 Speaker’s maneuver ensures vote today on stricter standards for high-schoolers The Columbus Dispatch 12/14/2006 Mark Niquette The Ohio House is expected to vote today on Gov. Bob Taft’s plan to require a more rigorous high-school curriculum after legislative maneuvering helped it pass the House Education Committee last night. The Ohio Core bill was approved 12-8 [...]

 The Columbus Dispatch 12/8/2006 Catherine Candisky and Jim Woods Columbus’ poverty rate has increased more since 1999 than in all but nine other large U.S. cities, a new report shows. Nearly one in five Columbus residents lived in poverty last year, up from 1 in 7 residents seven years ago, according to a study by [...]

 The Columbus Dispatch 12/7/2006 Bill Bush A task force yesterday named seven Columbus Public Schools that could close at the end of this school year because of falling district enrollment. The task force, which had identified nine possibilities last week, yesterday trimmed the list while continuing to discuss how changing enrollment trends should affect the [...]