Saturday December 24, 2011 The growing diversity of central Ohio’s population means that schools continue to change. It’s up to families and school officials to take advantage of the opportunities this presents, even as they deal with the challenges. The change is especially noticeable in suburban districts, where the percentage of nonwhite students has doubled, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

By  Jennifer Smith Richards The Columbus Dispatch Sunday November 27, 2011 front page More than 23,000 central Ohio students chose charters last school year, including more than 10,300 from suburban and rural districts. And all 49 of the region’s school districts have some students in charters, a fact that defies the early view that charter schools were [...]