4/30/08 Suburban News Khalila Perrin While Columbus City Schools leaders insist the district has a “clean bill of health,” Auditor of State Mary Taylor released a report April 22 that seemed to say just the opposite. The report, which covers fiscal year 2007, states the district has failed to fix 26 problems pointed out in [...]

4/30/08 Plain Dealer Editorial Gov. Ted Strickland and school superintendents take note: Public schools and charter schools need not be mortal enemies. The Cleveland schools’ successful partnership with the highly touted Entrepreneurship Preparatory School, the district’s sole charter school, proves that peace can be far more fruitful for Ohio’s youngsters than war among their schools. [...]

4/29/08 Columbus Dispatch Encarnacion Pyle Columbus high-school seniors will be among the first in Ohio to get a jump-start on college under a new program. Beginning this fall, the Seniors to Sophomores program will give high-achieving seniors a chance to earn a year’s worth of high-school and college credits at the same time, at no [...]

4/29/08 Columbus Dispatch Jennifer Smith Richards Buses by the numbers 1 million Ohio students who ride school buses 15,000 Buses on the road statewide 8.8 years average age of Ohio school buses $40.7 million state budget for bus purchases, 2001 $8.9 million state budget for bus purchases, 2008 $50,000 average cost of a school bus, [...]

4/29/08 Columbus Dispatch Blog Simone Sebastian Here’s more detail on today’s story about how a shrinking pot of state money and the rising cost of school buses is plaguing districts. (Pick up today’s Dispatch or read it on Dispatch.com.) Some of the wealthier school districts – Bexley, Dublin, New Albany-Plain – haven’t relied much on [...]