11/6/08
Suburban News
Khalila Perrin
If the livelihood of Columbus City Schools was at stake, voters threw the district a lifeline by overwhelmingly OK’ing Issue 75.
The unofficial count, with 317 of 430 precincts reporting, was 97,189 votes to 61,122.
The issue is the district’s combination 7.85-mill operating levy and $164-million, 1.13-mill bond issue. It’s expected to cost homeowners $275 […]

11/06/08
The Columbus Dispatch
Columbus City Schools got a vote of confidence with the overwhelmingly approval on Tuesday of a levy and bond issue that will add $275 to the tax bill on a $100,000 house. District leaders now should justify that confidence by keeping the promises they made to encourage passage.
Those promises include cutting unnecessary expenses […]

11/06/08
The Columbus Dispatch
Catherine Candisky
 
Voters knocked two incumbents off the state Board of Education while a former U.S. congresswoman from Cleveland and a Westerville school board member won seats on the panel.
The 19-member state board will see unprecedented turnover this year as six newcomers were elected in the seven races on Tuesday’s ballot. In addition, Gov. […]

11/3/08
Education Trust
Katy Haycock, President of the Education Trust
The United States is now the only industrialized nation in which today’s young people are less likely than their parents to have earned a high school diploma. Nationally, one of every four high school freshmen fails to graduate on time. And for African-American and Latino students, the rate […]

10/29/08
ThisWeek
David J. Cross
Columbus City Schools has released a five-year forecast that shows increased expenses but a nearly stagnant revenue stream.
Michael McCammon, the district’s interim treasurer, released the projections at the Oct. 21 board of education meeting.
According to the report, the CCS revenue is expected to increase by 0.1 percent each year through 2013, while expenses […]