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Lawsuits to close failing charter schools to continue »
10/28/08
Columbus Dispatch
Catherine Candisky
Interim Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers will continue her predecessor’s effort of trying to shut down poor-performing charter schools under Ohio’s charitable trust law.
Rogers’s office is appealing a Montgomery County court ruling that rejected the attorney general’s effort to close a Dayton charter school for failing grades.
Common Pleas Court Judge Michael Tucker dismissed […]
Economy has schools fearful: Districts urge voters to pass levies that bring in sizable state construction funds »
10/27/08
Columbus Dispatch
Catherine Candisky
Ohio’s massive school construction program has been a good deal for local districts wanting to build or repair their schools.
Since the program was created a decade ago, the state has provided $6.5 billion to districts where voters approved levies to cover a portion of the costs.
But with rising home foreclosures, persistent job loss, […]
Schools asking for tax hikes, despite overall hard times »
10/27/08
Plain Dealer
Jennifer González
It may not be an ideal time for school districts to ask voters for money. But the ballots have been printed, and there’s no going back.
School tax requests that were put on the ballot before the Wall Street meltdown will go before the voters on Nov. 4. So school officials are holding a […]
Cleveland school building plans on hold because of credit squeeze, Ohio opposition »
10/25/08
Plain Dealer
Thomas Ott
The collapse of the credit markets threatens to further slow a Cleveland schools construction program that is already up to 20 months behind schedule.
One piece of the program - construction of an additional West Side high school - faces a different kind of roadblock. The state, which pays two-thirds of the building campaign […]
Thomas M. Stephens commentary: Drop high-stakes testing for better way »
10/25/08
Columbus Dispatch
Thomas M. Stephens
School accountability, as practiced in Ohio, is a major barrier to improving public education, because it’s based upon a limited understanding of how youngsters learn and because its costs are excessive in both time and money: The state’s testing costs are $87.8 million a year, paid to out-of-state vendors. Gov. Ted Strickland […]
