Academic and Schools
What You Can Do For Kids in the Columbus City Schools »
KidsOhio.org, the Columbus Urban League and the YWCA, teamed up to encourage the community to thoughtfully pay attention to and actively participate in the November 2007 school board elections.
What’s New with Ohio Schools »
This timely, nonpartisan report explains recent measures affecting public schools in Ohio. These measures include: Improvements in accountability for Ohio charter schools in response to concerns about academic and financial performance, Ohio’s new initiative to create Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) schools based on a model begun in Franklin County, and expansion…
The Ohio Graduation Test: Background for Decision Makers »
After the most recent administration of the test in March 2007, approximately 93 percent of seniors statewide passed all five sections of the Ohio Graduation Test. However, since the remaining seven percent of seniors (about 9,000) were not able to graduate with their classmates, the test has been a subject of debate and discussion…
What Do Columbus Parents Think About Their Schools and School District? »
This presentation details the results of a poll commissioned by KidsOhio.org to learn more about the school choice decisions that Columbus parents make. Mark Real, President of KidsOhio.org, shared this data with a gathering of CPS school board and administration staff and teachers’ union members…
Which Columbus Students are Following the Discipline Rules, Which are Not? »
This report provides an independent analysis of 138,317 discipline records involving 28,561 Columbus Public Schools students who broke the district’s 55 discipline rules during the 2004-2005 school year. Unlike most reports on discipline, this analysis also includes students who obeyed the rules.
