Unruly kids under new rule The Columbus Dispatch 1/22/2007 Jennifer Smith Richards SuccessWorks Academy doesn’t look like much more than an old elementary-school building now, but it is going to be different. For starters, the “discipline school” is opening in the middle of the year. The kids who will show up today at the old [...]

 ThisWeek News 1/21/2007 Sue Hagan Staff Writer Freshman Elizabeth Vera goes over class work in Metro High School’s central lobby Thursday, Jan. 11. She is seated on benches that double as storage areas for student belongings. Students at Metro High School know there’s a lot riding on their academic efforts. After all, the new school [...]

 The New York Times December 20, 2007 By JENNIFER MEDINA Education officials, acting under the city’s new system of accountability, released report cards on Wednesday for several charter schools, with the majority receiving A’s and B’s, but one school in Queens getting an F. The grades came more than a month after Mayor Michael R. [...]

 The Columbus Dispatch 1/20/2007 On Jan. 3, Gov. Bob Taft pushed the state’s education system many steps forward when he signed the bill containing his Ohio Core plan. But then he took primary and secondary schools a quick step back, with a line-item veto of a provision to define the school year in hours rather [...]

 The New York Times 1/18/2007 Diane Cardwell Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg laid out ambitious new plans yesterday to overhaul the school system by giving principals more power and autonomy, requiring teachers to undergo rigorous review in order to gain tenure and revising the school financing system that has allowed more-experienced teachers to cluster in affluent [...]