5/29/08 Plain Dealer Thomas Ott Most children in a southeast Cleveland neighborhood will remain shut out of a school that residents battled for more than a decade to have built. The school board deadlocked, 4-4, Tuesday on a plan to remove a citywide girls academy from Warner School and devote it to youngsters from surrounding [...]

5/29/08 Plain Dealer Editorial Public school teachers carry the weight of many futures on their shoulders, and many are not well-equipped to do so. Some researchers, according to The Plain Dealer’s recent series on teacher education by reporters Scott Stephens and Edith Starzyk, fault inept programs at universities and colleges, where 90 percent of the [...]

5/29/08Columbus Dispatch Blog Simone Sebastian Columbus school district has had a discordant relationship with charter schools in the past. That makes tonight’s event at the Academic Acceleration Academy <http://aaastudents.com/default.aspx>  – a showy affair that reportedly will attract business bigwigs and Mayor Michael Coleman <http://mayor.columbus.gov/>  – all the more interesting. AAA is the first and only [...]

5/29/08 Columbus Dispatch Blog Jennifer Smith Richards Nerds and geeks, rejoice! For anyone who loves a fresh batch of education statistics, today is a great day: The Condition of Education 2008 <http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/>  has been released. Compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is the statistical arm of the U.S. Department of Education, the [...]

5/29/08 Columbus Dispatch Blog Rob Messinger A Columbus school-levy committee hasn’t issued its recommendation yet for a November tax request (or requests, if the panel decides both an operating levy and bond issue are needed). They say they need the district to give them more information about possible cuts so that they can weigh how [...]