Local Education Stories for February 2013
Stories for Thursday, February 28
Charter schools criticize audit that claims state is owed $860,000
The Ohio auditor’s office on Thursday again issued findings for recovery involving Dayton’s Richard Allen Academy charter schools, saying their management company, Institute of Management and Resources Inc., owes taxpayers nearly $860,000.“It doesn’t appear that much has changed at the Richard Allen schools,” Ohio Auditor Dave Yost said in a ...
Stories for Wednesday, February 27
Officials: Student made threat at Fairborn school
A student has been identified as the source of threats made at Baker Middle School in Fairborn.The Fairborn City Schools issued a release today stating the student faces disciplinary action at the school and possible criminal charges.The student’s name was not released.The Fairborn Police Department visited the student’s home and ...
Dayton students raising scholarship funds for “silent leaders”
Three years ago, when Kamryn Cosby was a sophomore at Stivers School for the Arts, she was selected as the school’s representative to the Superintendent’s Student Senate.Now in her senior year and vice-president of the Student Senate, she’s glad an idea put forward during her first year has become a ...
Troy student recognized in Ohio Civil Rights contest
Abby Smith’s artwork for a statewide contest honoring Martin Luther King Jr. ended up speaking louder than words.The Troy Junior High School eighth grader’s drawing incorporated a marching band theme in saluting the late civil rights leader.The effort earned Smith a first place in the 2013 Dr. Martin Luther King ...
Stories for Tuesday, February 26
School support centers could lose up to $91M in funding
Ohio’s 55 county Educational Service Centers could see up to $91 million in state funding cuts over two years under Gov. John Kasich’s proposed budget that some say could hurt small, local school districts that rely on their services and force ESCs to charge more.Montgomery, Greene, Butler, Clark, Miami, Preble, ...
Stories for Tuesday, February 12
School district’s report card rating, federal funding at risk
The state auditor on Tuesday presented his report on the statewide attendance investigation to the State Board of Education to determine whether adjustments should be made to the report card ratings of Northridge Local Schools and eight other districts where evidence of data scrubbing occurred. Northridge was the only Miami ...
Kettering Schools to pull levy from May ballot
Kettering City Schools Superintendent James Schoenlein announced Tuesday that the district will withdraw its levy from the May 7 ballot due to an improved funding outlook in the new state education budget.Hours before Gov. John Kasich announced the new state funding plan, the Kettering board of education voted Feb. 6 ...
Stories for Monday, February 11
State: Local school district named in probe
Northridge was the only Miami Valley school district in a statewide investigation found to have improperly removed students from its attendance rolls, according to a final report released Monday by Ohio State Auditor Dave Yost.Seven Miami Valley districts were cleared of any data tampering through an interim audit released in ...
Stories for Sunday, February 10
New reading requirements could cost schools millions
It could potentially cost Miami Valley school districts millions of dollars annually to meet the requirements of the new state Third Grade Reading Guarantee. School districts and charter schools throughout Ohio began taking steps this school year to prepare for the standard that generally mandates that students who do not ...
Stories for Thursday, February 7
10 districts to receive big hike in state funds
About half of the school districts in the Dayton area would get no new money under Gov. John Kasich’s proposed school funding plan, while 10 local districts would get double-digit increases. Kettering, Vandalia-Butler, Miamisburg, West Carrollton, Troy, Piqua, Springboro and Kings would get double-digit increases for fiscal years 2014 or ...
Stories for Wednesday, February 6
14 school districts place levies on May ballot
Fourteen Dayton area school districts have placed tax issues on the May 7 ballot, including eight of the 11 that saw requests for new money defeated in November. At least four of those returning school districts — Centerville, Fairborn, Huber Heights and Tecumseh — are seeking levies with higher millage ...
Stories for Monday, February 4
School funding, reform in Kasich's budget plan
Gov. John Kasich on Monday identified education funding and reform among his top five priorities in his proposed 2014-15 budget. Kasich has said school districts will receive at least as much money for the next two years as they did this year. His budget proposal would boost state aid by ...
Stories for Friday, February 1
Public schools would incur some cost of voucher expansion
An adviser for Gov. John Kasich on Friday provided more funding details about his controversial plan to expand the school voucher program in Ohio. Kasich is proposing two expansions to the state’s Educational Choice Scholarship, known as EdChoice, said Jim Lynch, special advisor on State Budget Communications. Since 2006, the ...
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