7/27/08
Plain Dealer
Scott Stephens
Ohio is one of just six states that will be allowed a little more flexibility under the federal No Child Left Behind law.
That new flexibility will:
a) Result in students learning more.
b) Offer teachers greater creativity in their lesson plans.
c) Enable districts that post good test scores to avoid being labeled as failing.
d) None [...]

7/28/08
Plain Dealer Editorial
Rebuild enrollment, now just over 50,000, by creating more specialty schools to draw youngsters from outside the district and encourage current students to stay.
Shore up neighborhood schools.
Build support for the tax issues he says are essential if Cleveland is to become a premier school district.
Manage the $1.5 billion construction and renovation program. Since [...]

7/28/08
Plain Dealer
Thomas Ott
Halfway through his original four-year contract, Eugene Sanders says he still loves serving as chief executive officer of the Cleveland schools.
What’s not to love? Vanishing enrollment and accompanying state pressure to scale back a $1.5 billion building program. Growing urgency to close schools. A need to raise property taxes. Disturbing memories of last [...]

7/28/08
Columbus Dispatch Blog
Simone Sebastian
The growing emphasis on student testing has been decried by teachers, students and parents in Columbus – and in many public schools around the country.
At a community meeting led by the Columbus Education Association earlier this month, few, if any, of the participants (including students, teachers and residents) chose testing as the [...]

7/27/08
Cincinnati Enquirer
Denise Smith Amos
More than 10,450 public school students in Ohio, including 2,088 or so in the Cincinnati area, will attend private schools on the state’s dime in the upcoming school year.
Ohio education officials say they’re mailing letters this week to families of students eligible to receive Ohio Educational Choice scholarships, commonly called vouchers.
The EdChoice [...]