12/14/08
Plain Dealer
Todd F. Hoadley
Northeast Ohio is losing in dustries and losing jobs. Its infrastructure is crumbling. These troubles, and the troubles of our U.S. economy, are complex and will not - cannot - be fixed overnight. We cannot simply spend our way out of this economic hole.
Rather, if the federal government is going to allocate […]

12/14/08
Columbus Dispatch
Jim Siegel
Gov. Ted Strickland told voters in 2006 that he’d be considered a failure if he did not fix Ohio’s school-funding system. He has been hosting invitation-only forums around the state, including sessions last week in Cleveland and Toledo, to get input into what must change and how the state can do it. Strickland […]

12/11/08
Democrat & Chronicle.com
Cara Matthews
ALBANY - Providing New York’s school districts with the flexibility to run on a four-day week could have some advantages, but it could hamper education quality and interfere with child-care arrangements, experts said Wednesday.
Charles Dawson of the state School Boards Association told the Senate Education Committee that there were potential cost savings […]

12/11/08
Columbus Dispatch Blog
Jennifer Smith Richards
YouthBuild USA has been given $1.6 million from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support seven of its programs, including the charter school it runs in Columbus.
YouthBuild is a program that caters to low-income students ages 16-24. They work toward their GEDs or high school diplomas while learning to build […]

12/10/08
ThisWeek
David J. Cross
Columbus City Schools Superintendent Gene Harris last week unveiled a timeline the district will use to implement a variety of changes brought about by passage of the recent ballot measure.
“Some of these timelines, you will see, are pretty aggressive and you might even say ‘Good grief, are you really able to do that […]