Parma

Parma City School District's Board of Education voted unanimously last week to allow trained staff to carry guns on school property, roughly a year after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law allowing school districts to adopt policies to do so.

Most of Ohio's new school levies failed Tuesday, according to the Ohio Association of School Boards. That's the lowest success rate for these bond issues and levy requests since 2007 when the country was on the cusp of the Great Recession.

Voters rejected bond issues and new levies for public schools in Parma, Garfield Heights and North Ridgeville.

Some school districts in Northeast Ohio are seeking new money through levies and bond issues that will be on the ballot Tuesday, with some seeking to construct new buildings while others are hoping to stay afloat amid challenging economic times.

Parma City School District is again trying to win over voter support for a bond issue that will be on the ballot in May, meant to fund construction of a new high school.

Cleveland's biggest suburb marked a significant milestone in February when it swore in Monica Wilson as the first Black person on city council.

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine wanted to show bipartisan support for Ukraine in the war with Russia.

This will be the district’s fourth consecutive attempt to get a bond issue approved, with the last attempt failing in November last year. The bond would be used to construct a centralized high school as the district looks to close two high schools to trim costs.

A Parma City School District Board of Education member has resigned after she was arrested on a charge of forgery last week.

Amanda Karpus, the vice president of the board of education, was arrested Wednesday and appeared in Parma Municipal Court, where the case was bound over to Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. She was released on her own recognizance.