By Jim Siegel
The Columbus Dispatch
2/29/2008
The question of whether a pro-charter-school political action committee violated Ohio law in 2006 by accepting and spending more than $850,000 funneled through Virginia will have to wait.
The Ohio Elections Commission surprised government attorneys yesterday when, instead of hearing arguments in the case involving the group called All Children Matter, it [...]

We recently asked community leaders what reading materials they recommend to better understand and stay abreast of education issues. Here are a few of the responses that we received.

 The New York Times
2/27/2008
By Sam Dillon
Fewer than half of American teenagers who were asked basic history and literature questions in a phone survey knew when the Civil War was fought, and one in four said Columbus sailed to the New World some time after 1750, not in 1492.
The survey results, released on Tuesday, demonstrate that [...]

2/27/08
Plain Dealer Column
Janet Okoben
For the second year in a row, high school students can earn college credit through summer programs at a number of local colleges. It’s all part of the state’s attempt to get more students interested in science, technology, engineering, math and foreign languages.
The amount of college credit varies by program, and last [...]

2/26/08
Columbus Dispatch
Simone Sebastian
Columbus students still ride school buses operated by the company whose blunder shut down the district for a day last year.
But the First Student name is being de-emphasized after school district officials asked the company to relabel all of its buses.
The Columbus schools ended their contract with First Student after the district canceled [...]