11/28/08 Plain Dealer Thomas Ott Nearly a dozen teenagers tap at computer keyboards in a classroom eight stories above downtown Cleveland. It’s an ordinary school scene — except that these students are prisoners in the Cuyahoga County Jail. A growing number of children are finding themselves cooped up in the jail for months while they [...]

11/28/08 Plain Dealer Thomas Ott Nearly a dozen teenagers tap at computer keyboards in a classroom eight stories above downtown Cleveland. It’s an ordinary school scene — except that these students are prisoners in the Cuyahoga County Jail. A growing number of children are finding themselves cooped up in the jail for months while they [...]

11/28/08 Associated Press Thomas J. Sheeran CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — Ohio’s new schools chief gets good grades from colleagues and parents for a high-energy, innovative approach to her work, which includes extensive experience dealing with underperforming youngsters from poor families. Deborah S. Delisle, 55, superintendent of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights district, takes office Monday as [...]

11/26/08 Fortune Magazine Claudia Wallis Their crusade to fix schools earned a “needs improvement,” so they have a new plan. The most surprising beneficiaries? Community colleges. (Fortune Magazine) — When Bill Gates gets worked up about something, his body language changes. He suspends his habit of rocking forward and back in his chair and sits [...]

11/26/08 Columbus Dispatch Editorial Ohio has taken steps to remedy the chaos of failing and mismanaged charter schools that grew from the original legislation, which required too little accountability of school sponsors. Legislation last year set higher standards for those who sponsor charter schools and gave the Ohio Department of Education more latitude to evaluate [...]