This brochure explains four opportunities for middle and high schoolers to earn tuition-free college credit now: Advanced Placement, College Tech Prep, Early College, and Post Secondary Enrollment Options.
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Ohio Grantmakers Forum and KidsOhio.org are nonprofit, nonpartisan organizations working together to improve academic achievement among Ohio’s 1.8 M public school students.  Our commitment to helping students improve is the reason we produced the Independent Guide to Ohio’s $400 M Race to the Top Application.  This guide describes a unique opportunity for Ohio schools to [...]

KidsOhio’s latest policy brief, Can requiring all high school juniors to take the ACT improve college preparation and the number of Ohioans going to college?, is meant to spur discussion about Ohio’s efforts to increase the number of college graduates from 72,657 to 100,000 by 2017.
A new state law will require Ohio highschoolers to take [...]

October 23, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
The Quiet Revolution
By DAVID BROOKS New York Times op-ed
A few weeks ago, “Saturday Night Live” teased President Obama for delivering great speeches but not actually bringing change. There’s at least one area where that jibe is unfair: education.
When Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan came to office, they created a $4.3 billion [...]

Monday,  September 21, 2009
By Mark Niquette
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled today that Gov. Ted Strickland’s plan to add video slot machines at Ohio’s horse-racing tracks is subject to a referendum, potentially creating a nearly $1 billion hole in the state budget.
The court also put implementation of the slots plan on hold for 90 [...]