By Stephen Koff, The Plain Dealer WASHINGTON — Ohio will get up to $70 million from the federal government as one of nine states awarded ”Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge” grants. The winners will share $500 million to better prepare disadvantaged youngsters for kindergarten. “This is a huge win for the children of Ohio and it [...]

Almost three in 10 Dublin students last school year was a member of a racial minority. Its 29.3 percent rate would have qualified Dublin as most diverse among 17 suburban Columbus districts 10 years ago. Now, it ranks seventh. Whitehall topped the list a decade ago, when 29.7 percent of its students were not white. [...]

This report, co-released by KidsOhio and the Columbus Urban League, documents that our public school students, district and charter, are more diverse than ever. 43 percent of students in Franklin County school districts were children of color in 2011 – up from 34 percent in 2001; All 16 Franklin County school districts had a higher [...]

Charter schools statewide and in Franklin County have become much more racially diverse over the past decade, state enrollment data show. In the 2000-01 school year, when charters still were new in Ohio, 87 percent of the 748 Franklin County charter students were members of minorities. In the 2010-11 school year, roughly 33,000 students attended [...]