3/25/08
Columbus Dispatch Blog
Encarnacion Pyle
Educational success has been too narrowly defined as graduation from a four-year college — often overlooking students going to a community college, technical school or apprenticeship program, a new study finds.
The Southern Regional Education Board says high schools and colleges need to do a better job working together to provide students with […]

3/24/08
Plain Dealer Editorial
Pass a bushel of bright, shiny apples around the Cleveland Board of Education.
After more than 11 years, the Cleveland schools finally, finally, worked their way out from under fiscal oversight by the state.
State Auditor Mary Taylor, whose office had been tracking the district’s finances, said last week that the school system paid back […]

3/24/08
Columbus Dispatch Letter
Roger Brown
I hope Ohio’s legislators will create the position of state director of education, as Gov. Ted Strickland is requesting. I am a retired educator. For more than 30 years I saw poor leadership and vision and what I feel was a total waste of public funds by the State Department of Education. […]

3/24/08
Columbus Dispatch Letter
Margaret Burley
Given the major safety and operational issues facing the Ohio Department of Youth Services, Gov. Ted Strickland made a sound decision to largely exempt the department from initial 2008-09 budget reductions and to reduce serious overcrowding and understaffing problems by paroling approximately 200 young offenders.
But much more needs to be done, according […]

 3/24/08
Columbus Dispatch Editorial
The failure of Congress, after a year of wrangling, to agree on an update to the 2002 No Child Left Behind law leaves its weaknesses unaddressed and leaves it to the Bush administration to exercise some executive tinkering.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said recently she plans to give up to 10 states permission to […]