The presentation slides and related materials from KidsOhio.org’s May 7, 2008 Columbus Metropolitan Club forum-”Creating a Portfolio of High-Performing Schools: What Columbus is Already Doing and What We Can Learn from other Communities”-are now available. The program featured David Ferrero, Senior Education Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Josh Edelman, Director of New Schools for the Chicago Public Schools; and Abigail Wexner, KidsOhio.org Board Chair…

 By Angela Townsend
The Plain Dealer
3/11/2008
The security chief for the Cleveland schools says the district is building a “bubble of safety” to protect students and staff.
Relying on a combination of measures - from hiring more security guards to installing metal detectors and X-ray machines - Chief Lester Fultz said the district hopes its tactics will […]

Suburban News Publication
5/16-5/23/07
By JENNIFER NOBLIT
A national education advocate offered an outsider’s look last week on the state of education in Ohio.
Kati Haycock, president of the Education Trust and a top child advocate in education, spoke last week at a Columbus Metropolitan Club meeting.
She compared Ohio test scores nationally, and although test scores are improving, she […]

This Week News
3/8/2007
By SUE HAGAN
ThisWeek Staff Writer
Students in 60 Columbus public schools — about 22,000 students — are eligible to apply for vouchers to private schools for the 2007-2008 school year, through the state of Ohio’s Educational Choice Scholarship Pilot Program (EdChoice).
[For a list of all 60 schools and a report on the EdChoice program, […]

Unruly kids under new rule
The Columbus Dispatch
1/22/2007 Jennifer Smith Richards
SuccessWorks Academy doesn’t look like much more than an old elementary-school building now, but it is going to be different.
For starters, the “discipline school” is opening in the middle of the year. The kids who will show up today at the old Franklinton Elementary […]