7/16/08
Suburban News
Khalila Perrin
Columbus City Schools leaders are one step closer to putting a combination operating levy and bond issue on the November ballot.
The school board last week unanimously approved legislation which allows the district to seek approval of the Ohio Department of Education on its proposed combination 7.85-mill operating levy and a $164 million, 24-year […]

7/16/08
Columbus Dispatch Blog
Simone Sebastian
A Columbus man says he chose to sell drugs instead of playing for his high school football team because he couldn’t afford cleats as a teenager.
From that experience, he and a group of other Columbus residents organized a fundraiser this weekend to purchase athletic shoes for members of the Linden-McKinley and East […]

7/16/08
Columbus Dispatch Blog
Rob Messinger
Dispatch reporter Cathy Candisky writes on the Daily Briefing political blog:
Paolo DeMaria is leaving the Ohio Department of Education, the second associate superintendent to move on this year. But he’s not going far.
DeMaria, an 22-year veteran of state government, will join the Ohio Board of Regents where he will serve as executive […]

7/15/08
Columbus Dispatch
Catherine Candisky
Wanted: A visionary leader and strong communicator who gets Ohio and can rally diverse groups around a yet-to-be-determined plan for improving public schools.
Interested?
The slow-moving process to replace outgoing state schools superintendent Susan T. Zelman is pushing forward after more than 50 education leaders and interested parties have weighed in what they are looking […]

7/15/08
Jonathan Alter
One of the best things about the Democratic primaries was that horse-race-obsessed reporters rarely asked the candidates about education. Why was that good? Because hundreds of delegates who were at stake are members of Paleolithic teachers unions, ready to pounce on any challenge to the failed system they dominate.
When the subject did arise, it […]