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A child walks onto a Dayton Public Schools bus on Dearborn Avenue on Tuesday, Aug. 12. It was the first day of school for many Dayton Public Schools students. The school district has filed a lawsuit against the state of Ohio to stop enforcement of a provision in the recent budget to block students from using school-purchased RTA passes to change buses in downtown bus hub. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF

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Dayton Public sues Ohio, says busing changes are unconstitutional

$Students enter Centerville Primary Village South, on the first day of school Wednesday August 17, 2022. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Backpacks ready? Here’s when school starts across the region

UD students along with family and friends move into Marycrest Complex Friday August 16, 2024. Jim Noelker/Staff

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When do local college students go back to school?

A Greater Dayton RTA bus leaves Wright Stop Plaza Transit Center in downtown Dayton on Friday, June 27. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF

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Students exploring ways to get to school without RTA passes this year

Chris Burge (far left), a child nutrition specialist at Fairborn Middle School, talks to a child during a summer lunch session on Friday, July 25 at Fairborn Library. Kayleigh Jones (center right, in black) attended the lunch with her younger siblings Rilee (center) and Shayden (right). Fairborn City Schools provides free meals to children ages 1 to 18 at 10 different sites around the city each weekday from June 9 to Aug. 1. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF

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How an Obama law changed school lunch, and Trump budget threatens it

Dayton Public Schools staff crowded into a board room on Wednesday a few days after the district announced a change in pay dates for the 2025-2026 school year. Eileen McClory / staff

Dayton schools staff to be paid Aug. 15 following court injunction

Avery Jackson (right) and Allison Soriano (left) look at boxes of crayons while shopping at Crayons to Classrooms on Wednesday, July 30. Both are first-year teachers at Legacy Christian Academy in Xenia. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF

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New teachers get free school supplies from local nonprofit for their classrooms

Buses in the Dayton Public Schools Transportation Center lot on James H. McGee Blvd. Eileen McClory/ staff

Dayton Public won’t bus high school students next year

DPS teachers, staff to file lawsuit after district changes pay dates three weeks before...

Do private schools offer Ohio students a better education? Not necessarily

How and why we reported on Ohio public and private school test scores

$New Lebanon eighth-grade math teacher Ronda Nisbet works with her students during a math class. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

New Lebanon teacher among finalists for Ohio Teacher of the Year

Students in Fail Me Not Tutoring work on a windmill project on Wednesday, July 23 at the summer camp, which was held at Trotwood Preparatory and Fitness Academy property. BRYANT BILLING / STAFF

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West Dayton tutoring program helps students extend summer learning

Dayton Public changes pay schedule, frustrating employees

An entrance to St. Mary's Hall at the University of Dayton campus. THOMAS GNAU/STAFF

UD announces fundraising record

$New Lebanon eighth-grade math teacher Ronda Nisbet works with her students during a math class. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

See why local math teacher was named Teacher of the Year for District 3

FILE - Students and parents rally at the Ohio Statehouse in support of possible changes that would increase eligibility for taxpayer-funded school vouchers to K-12 students statewide, May 17, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Samantha Hendrickson, File)

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What’s the future for Ohio’s EdChoice voucher program for private schools?

Double Bowler was also ordered to pay $10.77 million to Sunflower Public Finance, LLC, which held the mortgage on four properties that Double Bowler owned. FILE

Judgment filed in Wright State’s real estate arm case

University of Dayton President Eric Spina issued a letter in March 2025 saying the institution plans to make cuts that will affect 65 employees. BRYANT BILLING/STAFF

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UD announces ‘strategic hiring,’ budget uncertainty, cites federal volatility

A classroom at Mansfield Senior High School in Mansfield, Ohio. (AP Photo/Phil Long)

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Ohio education budget: EdChoice funding rises, some (not all) controversial measures...

Charisse Bush, Wright State University student and president of the college's Association of Black Business Students, standing outside the office space of five Culture and Identity Centers that were discontinued on June 27 due to Senate Bill 1. DION JOHNSON/STAFF

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‘People need those’: WSU students, faculty react to closure of identity centers, S.B. 1

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Dayton Public students impacted by busing restrictions in Ohio budget bill

Two local universities announce offices related to DEI will close

$First-grade students (left to right) Parker Richey, Remi Kinney, and Declan Cogan work on counting skills in Sarah Jacobs' math class at Primary Village North school in Centerville in this 2024 photo. Centerville is nearly two years ahead in math scores using a new curriculum they rolled out two years ago. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Ohio Senate’s budget bill spells out plan to improve how schools teach math

Ohio Senate President Rob McColley, R-Napoleon, takes questions from reporters alongside Senate Finance Chair Jerry Cirino, R-Kirtland, shortly after unveiling the Senate's initial tweaks to the state's proposed 2026 and 2027 operating budget. June 3, 2025.

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Local schools could see funding boosts, dips as budget impact varies by district

(L to R) Christi Amato, dean of the Sinclair eLearning division, Sinclair Board of Trustees Chair Bruce Feldman, Sinclair president Steve Johnson, Sinclair senior vice president of strategy and advancement Melissa Tolle, and Sinclair trustee Joe Sciabica announce a $5 million, three-year campaign teach AI at the college, with plans to have all course programs teach artificial intelligence. COURTESY OF SINCLAIR

Sinclair plans to spend $5M to advance AI learning, says AI is the future

The latest round of recent high school graduations saw more Butler County seniors handed both a diploma and a Miami University associate degree at their commencement ceremonies. Pictured are some of the area high school grads who also earned 2-year degrees. (Provided)

Miami University sees jump in high schoolers getting diplomas and 2-year degrees at the...

Dr. Rudy Fichtenbaum conducts a meeting of the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio board of trustees on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

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STRS names new executive director for teachers’ retirement system

A father hugged his son at the scene of a Northwestern School District bus crash that killed one student and injured more than 20 others on State Route 41 near Springfield, Ohio Tuesday, August 22, 2023. The bus, carrying 52 elementary students on their way to the first day of school was struck by a mini van and rolled over. FILE PHOTO

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Ohio House passes school bus safety bill spurred by deadly Clark County crash

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Ohio Senate budget lets schools keep more cash in the bank, still caps amount

State Reps. Phil Plummer (R-Dayton) and Tom Young (R-Washington Twp.) spoke on Thursday, April 10, 2025, about student busing. They say Dayton Public School students need to be taken to and from school on yellow school buses instead of using the public transit system. CORNELIUS FROLIK / STAFF

Dayton schools board of education say busing needs to change though options are limited