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 […]

 27,352 students would be eligible in Columbus
The Columbus Dispatch
12/20/2006
David Conrad
Columbus Superintendent Gene Harris criticized legislative plans to expand a statewide voucher program without public debate or proof that the program was working.
Under the new formula, students from 70 struggling Columbus Public Schools will be eligible to use vouchers to pay for private-school tuition. This year, […]

 The Columbus district was not chosen to sponsor schools.
Suburban News Publication
11/29/2006
Garth Bishop
It’s official: The Knowledge Is Power Program, known for its high-performing charter schools, is coming to Columbus.
Though it will not be sponsored by Columbus Public Schools, as some district officials had hoped, a program official said it is open to working with the district […]

Suburban News Publications
5/17/2006
By MARK REAL
As I enter the Welcome Center in 95-year-old North High School at 7:15 a.m.
I see young Somali Bantu women in colorful hijabs — Islamic head scarves — and long skirts.
The jewel colors of their tribal garb are a bright contrast to the standard-issue desks and classroom walls. Colorful art projects adorn […]

Failing schools should use data, embrace change to serve students better
The Columbus Dispatch
5/15/2006
Four years after its inception, the No Child Left Behind law is forcing change in America’s worst schools. Nationwide, about 1,750 schools must be remade with new principals and mostly new teaching staffs because their students’ academic performance has lagged for too long.
As […]