3/25/08
Plain Dealer Column
Scott Stephens
The number of high school graduates nationally is predicted to decrease starting next school year, propelled primarily by enrollment changes in the Northeast and Midwest, according to a national report.
A dramatic shift will also occur in the racial and ethnic composition of student bodies as a result of rapid growth in the […]

3/25/08
Plain Dealer
Thomas Ott
The Cleveland schools’ all-male Ginn Academy gets all the attention. Folks fawn over the high school boys in their ties and bright red blazers.
But don’t overlook another unique group of students on the second floor.
Promise Academy, upstairs from Ginn on East 32nd Street, was launched a year ago as an alternative high school […]

3/25/08
Plain Dealer
Thomas Ott
Police and security officers have begun making random sweeps of Cleveland schools in search of drugs.
The first sweep came Thursday at John Marshall High School. School security officers, city police and two drug-sniffing dogs went through lockers for two hours while students were kept in their classrooms.
No drugs were found, but schools security […]

3/25/08
Columbus Dispatch
Short Takes
This entails criminal-background checks for teachers and many nonteaching employees, some of whom haven’t been checked for years and others who never have been checked. A new law means about 200,000 people must be fingerprinted and cleared by the FBI and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation by Sept. 5.
An October […]

3/25/08
Suburban News
Khalila Perrin
While some students thumb through books over spring break, four students from Columbus Alternative High School will experience the civil rights movement with those who lived it.
The district’s spring recess began Friday, March 21, and runs through Friday, March 28.
On Tuesday, March 25, the four students — Jerry Hoke, Cole Henry Jones, James […]