5/3/09
Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial
The 88,000 youngsters who attend charter schools in Ohio need better friends in the Ohio Senate than they have in the House.
The House last week approved a school funding budget Democrats trumpet as bringing fairness to the system. But the fairness doesn’t extend to charters, or their students. House members did far [...]

4/30/09
Cincinnati Enquirer Editorial
The headline coming out of Wednesday’s annual report from Strive, the education partnership encompassing the three urban school districts at the region’s core, sounded grim: Most high school graduates coming out of the districts are unprepared to take college-level classes.
But the value of the Strive partnership with Cincinnati, Covington and Newport school districts [...]

3/5/09
Plain Dealer
Thomas Ott
Management consultants who helped New Orleans decide which schools to reopen after Hurricane Katrina will help Cleveland determine which schools, if any, should close.
Boston Consulting Group, an international firm based in Massachusetts, will study use of buildings in Cleveland, where enrollment has declined this decade from nearly 80,000 to 50,000. The report won’t [...]

3/4/09 
Columbus Dispatch
 Simone Sebastian 
Columbus schools leader Gene Harris has delayed taking a raise for the fourth time as superintendent, citing the bad economy and the district’s upcoming labor-contract negotiations.
The Columbus school board offered Harris, who has led the schools since 2001, a 4 percent raise. She requested that the increase be deferred until negotiations with the [...]

2/21/09 
Columbus Dispatch 
Elizabeth Gibson
Three of the six Columbus school-board candidates, including the board president and a new board member, were knocked off the November ballot yesterday because they did not have enough valid signatures on their nominating petitions.
The Franklin County Board of Elections also found yesterday that there was a lack of legitimate signatures for Whitehall [...]