3/31/09 
Columbus Dispatch 
Mary Beth Lane
Business is going through the roof, or more accurately, on the roof, as more governments, agencies and school districts install solar panels to help generate power and save on energy costs.
The panels are showing up atop buildings owned by cities, counties and federal agencies, as well as some schools. The delivery of [...]

3/31/09 
Columbus Dispatch 
Dean Narciso
The Columbus Board of Education selected a new treasurer and accepted the resignation of its internal auditor last night.
Penny Rucker, 44, is treasurer for Springfield schools. She was chosen over three other finalists to become the district’s next treasurer/chief financial officer.
Also in the running were former Columbus schools Budget Director Hugh Garside, who [...]

The Plain Dealer
President Obama says let charter schools bloom; so should Gov. Ted Strickland — editorial
Strickland should have what the president is having: an intelligent, discerning approach to charter schools
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Gov. Ted Strickland ought to follow his leader and stop trying to destroy char ter schools.
 
President Barack Obama laid out a [...]

3/30/09
Washington Post
Fred Hiatt
You might call it the Obama-Duncan-Gates-Rhee philosophy of education reform.
Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder turned full-time philanthropist, visited The Post last week to talk, among other things, about how to improve schools for the nation’s poorest children.
That so many children in this country cannot live up to their potential because they are born [...]

Suburban News
4/28/09
Khalila Perrin
* Officials will start with science labs and security upgrades for high schools.
Columbus City Schools officials are just months away from beginning afresh on its effort to apply recently approved tax dollars to school upgrades.
Voters approved the district’s levy-bond combo, last fall giving officials the green light to continue carrying out the district’s [...]