5/30/08
Columbus Dispatch
Catherine Candisky
A struggling Columbus charter school might be paying federal tax penalties with state tax dollars it receives to educate students.
A state audit released yesterday shows that the George Washington Carver Preparatory Academy at 2283 Sunbury Rd. failed to pay payroll and Medicare taxes it withheld from employees’ paychecks.
The school owes more than $343,000 [...]

5/30/08
Plain Dealer
Thomas Ott
The Cleveland school district has less than three months to finish planning two new cutting-edge high schools focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Before the schools open in August, officials have to hire the teachers and recruit more students. In one case, they have yet to complete negotiations for a building.
No problem, says [...]

 5/29/08
Columbus Dispatch
Simone Sebastian
The Columbus school district’s levy committee called on the superintendent yesterday to bring back some cost-saving ideas before it makes a recommendation, which the panel delayed for two more weeks.
Superintendent Gene Harris recently presented the committee with a wish list of academic improvements that would add $129 million to $165 million to the [...]

5/29/08
Columbus Dispatch
Nicquel Terry
As Hamilton Elementary teacher Ritchie Harris conducts daily reading activities for his fourth-grade class, a few students find it hard to participate.
It’s not because they can’t read, but because they struggle to see the words on their textbook pages.
“I’m not going to be able to read this,” one student said after glancing at [...]

5/29/08
Columbus Dispatch
A judge in Dayton says she won’t stop a high school from holding its graduation ceremony, rejecting arguments that students who failed a statewide exit exam should be allowed to participate.
Judge Frances McGee of Montgomery County Common Pleas Court said Tuesday that parents of students at Thurgood Marshall High School who failed the Ohio [...]