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A Nonpartisan Guide to the Columbus City Schools’ 2008 Levy and Bond Issue »
Columbus City Schools plans to put a joint bond issue and 7.85-mill operating levy on the November 2008 ballot. This guide provides information on what the ballot issue would cost and what it would pay for, as well as a look at the district’s budget forecast, ongoing facilities program and recent trends in enrollment and academics.
ALSO AVAILABLE HERE: the Board of Education’s August 19 resolution to accelerate academic achievement with resources from the levy and bond issue.
A Nonpartisan Guide to the Columbus City Schools’ 2008 Levy and Bond Issue »
Columbus City Schools plans to put a joint bond issue and 7.85-mill operating levy on the November 2008 ballot. This guide provides information on what the ballot issue would cost and what it would pay for, as well as a look at the district’s budget forecast, ongoing facilities program and recent trends in enrollment and academics.
ALSO AVAILABLE HERE: the Board of Education’s August 19 resolution to accelerate academic achievement with resources from the levy and bond issue.
Ohio labs, companies have won plenty of R&D-100 awards »
8/21/08
Plain Dealer
Frank Bentayou
Ohio. Just another link on the industrial rust belt, you say? A wasteland littered with yesterday’s technology?
Bite your tongue.
Research and development at enterprises in the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati areas produced 10 of this year’s 100 most significant innovations, R&D Magazine says in its September issue.
With 10 of the cur rent crop of […]
Online testing idea nixed »
6/30/08
Columbus Dispatch Blog
Jennifer Smith Richards
Some states are moving their standardized testing online, or at least portions of it.
Not Ohio.
While, in past years, the state has said it was toying with the idea and seriously exploring how it might work, that dream apparently has died along with funding for such exploration.
Ohio Department of Education spokeswoman Karla […]
Board needs help to find food service director »
6/10/08
Suburban News
Khalila Perrin
The search for a new food service department director — and the provision of meals for students — won’t end because school is out for the summer in most Columbus City Schools.
The Columbus Board of Education last week OK’d the hire of a headhunting firm on a contingency basis to help find a […]
