An anti-gang program will be taught in Columbus, Groveport-Madison and South-Western schools this year.
Suburban News Publications
12/19/2007
By ROSEMARY KUBERA
Inner city gangs don’t stay home. Members sometimes venture out to sell drugs, invade homes and steal cars.
Of 97 gangs known to operate in Franklin County, some have emerged in suburban middle and high schools. At least two […]

 Education Week
December 19, 2007
By Bess Keller
A new study concluding that teachers entering the profession today have higher academic qualifications than their counterparts a decade ago is credible and significant, but not cause for resting on laurels, teacher experts say.
The report, released this week by the Educational Testing Service, says the finding bodes well for greater […]

 School for misbehaving students seeing results
The Columbus Dispatch
12/17/07
By Simone Sebastian
To an outsider, SuccessWorks Academy appears to be a docile school.
There are no students wandering the halls. Classrooms are quiet. And between classes, students follow teachers in straight lines from one room to the next.
It’s not immediately obvious that this is a school for Columbus’ […]

 The Columbus Dispatch
12/17/07
By Alayna DeMartini
New schools could be in Whitehall’s not-so-distant future.
The city is next in line for a state donation to build new schools. There’s one catch. It would have to pay a little more than a third of the cost. And that spells: tax increase.
It’s been 12 years since the Whitehall school […]

 Critics question rationale for alternative as Ohio’s big urban districts emerge from academic crises
Akron Beacon Journal
12/16/2007
By John Higgins
Beacon Journal staff writer
The charter school movement that helped create charter schools in Ohio 10 years ago argued that they were needed to give parents an alternative to persistently failing schools.
But today, as the traditional schools lift themselves […]