7/26/09
The Columbus Dispatch
Jennifer Smith Richards
NEW CRITERIA IN STATE BUDGET

   There won’t be second chances for some of Ohio’s chronically underperforming charter schools, forcing the hundreds of students they serve to begin shopping for new schools.
   Seven schools — two in Franklin County — apparently will be closed by the end of the coming school year because of [...]

7/23/09
 
The Columbus Dispatch, Editorial Page
 
Along with much else that’s questionable in the state budget signed by Gov. Ted Strickland Friday is its implicit support for the idea that school funding takes precedence over all other state responsibilities — that whatever schools say they need, Ohio’s taxpayers ought to pony up.
In service to this idea, [...]

7/22/09
 
Suburban News
 
Khalila Perrin
 
* Columbus will come out ahead by $1.5 million in additional state funding under the two-year budget.
 
In the wake of the newly approved $50.5 billion biennial state budget, Columbus City Schools might have more financially secure days ahead.
The portion of the state’s budget that incorporates Gov. Ted Strickland’s evidence-based approach to academic reforms [...]

7/22/09
 
Suburban News
 
Khalila Perrin
 
* Only write-ins will be in the field to fill the final two years of Terry Boyd’s term.
 
The general election is months away, but for Paul Carringer one question is already on the table.
“How do we get people to understand what value I can bring to the board and then get them to [...]

7/22/09
 
ThisWeek
 
David J. Cross
 
On any given day, a plethora of languages are spoken in the Columbus school district, a fact that can be daunting for school officials.
“We have probably 85 to 90 (languages), and I say between that because we get in new families almost every day,” said Ken Woodard, supervisor of the English as [...]