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Montgomery Preparatory Academy is a new charter school opening this fall on Smithville Road, just south of Watervliet in the Belmont neighborhood. JEREMY P. KELLEY / STAFF

Dayton charter school to close for funeral of teacher who died of COVID

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Dayton-area schools are a mix of mask-required and mask-optional. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

See which 36 local schools mandate masks, which 21 don’t

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$The annual Ohio Department of Education (ODE) report cards were released Tuesday but they lacked much of the student achievement measurements of past years due to the cancellation of student testing by the outbreak of coronavirus last spring. (File Photo\DaytonDailyNews)$

Ohio’s student testing scores drop dramatically

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Crowds filled the lobby of the Beavercreek board of education building to protest the district's decision to mandate masks for students in grades K-6.

Protests persist over Beavercreek school mask policy

DeWine: Nearly 58% of Ohio students under mask mandate

Students earn National Merit recognition for posting the highest scores on the Preliminary SAT exam.

List: Students from 21 local schools win National Merit honor

$Tippecanoe High School. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Tipp City school board member: ‘I don’t even feel safe coming to these meetings’

Kettering Schools reports students participating in ‘devious licks’ social media trend

Local school COVID cases at near peak level for second week

Troy 8th-grader overcomes odds to run cross country: ‘He’s an unstoppable kid’

Tipp City parents call for and against masks outside school board meeting

Children’s hospitals urge schools to mandate masks

Northmont schools switch to full mask mandate

Troy schools mandate masks despite vocal opposition

Child care crisis: Costs, worker shortage leading to ‘untenable’ situation

What Ohio lawmakers will likely focus on this fall

$Students at Eastmont elementary in Dayton wait to board the bus at the end of the first day of school on Wednesday Aug. 18, 2021. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Over 1,000 local K-12 students got COVID last week

Miamisburg City School District will enforce a mask mandate for all students and staff starting Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. STAFF FILE PHOTO

Miamisburg mandates masks for students, staff starting Monday

UPDATE: Oakwood school board votes to appoint Beavercreek director to vacant seat

Local public health officials are pushing for more teens to get vaccinated as a surge of COVID cases and hospitalizations continues locally at the same time schools reopen everywhere. NICK GRAHAM / STAFF

Teen COVID vaccination very low in some local communities

Centerville City Schools Board of Education voted in 2020 to cut 18.5 teaching positions, but many have returned, Centerville Classroom Teachers' Association President Brian Cayot said. NICK BLIZZARD/STAFF

Union: Nearly all Centerville school teachers cut last year were offered jobs back

Lebanon City Schools reopened its buildings following a short pause last week due to COVID-19 and other seasonal illnesses. Carlisle Local Schools also closed for a few days last week for the same reasons and reopened as well. FILE PHOTO

Lebanon, Carlisle schools reopen after pausing due to COVID-19, other seasonal illnesses

Large distribution from state means DPS won’t charge students for masks

$Virginia Stevenson Elementary School third-grader Temperance Breehe does work on the board under the watchful eyes of teacher Tessler Baird on the first day of school, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Last local schools begin classes; others return from closure

$Kettering Middle School classroom on the first day of school last week. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Some schools offer weeks more class time than others

A rendering of the Greater Dayton School. CONTRIBUTED

Greater Dayton School will be downtown, until $35M campus is ready

The Shawnee High School football field. BILL LACKEY/STAFF

Clark-Shawnee football field damaged by armyworms

Mallory Kirk, 12, of Fairborn struggled with virtual school last year. She said she got the coronavirus vaccine at Dayton Children's Hospital on Wednesday, Sept. 1 because she's afraid of getting sick and she wants to stay in the classroom.

Why Dayton area kids say they are getting vaccinated