This Week in Education Thursday, December 23, 2010   PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION The outgoing chair of the House Education Committee, Rep. Brian Williams (D-Akron), joined Rep. and Senator-elect Kris Jordan (R-Powell) in sponsoring HB610, which offers tax credits supporting private school scholarships for K-12 students. The bill would allow businesses, community organizations and individual [...]

This Week in Education Friday, December 17, 2010 EDUCATION LEGISLATION HB603  HYBRID COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (MORGAN, S) To permit the establishment of hybrid community schools that provide both online and classroom-based instruction. Current Status: 12/6/2010 – Referred to Committee House Education  HB605  PROPERTY FOR SCHOOL USE (MORGAN, S) To exempt from property taxation real property procured [...]

This Week in Education Friday, December 10, 2010 PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION State Superintendent Deborah Delisle told the 488 school districts and charter schools participating in Ohio’s Race to the Top (RttT) plan that as much as $206 million of the state’s $400 million will start flowing Jan. 3, 2011. At the House Primary and [...]

FY12-13 BUDGET State agencies submitted budget plans to Gov.-elect John Kasich and legislative leaders, per a state law requiring delivery of such information in the year a new governor is elected. Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols said the incoming administration can draw no conclusions yet from 5,000 pages of information because at this point “it’s just [...]