public education

Republicans in the Ohio General Assembly may lack many things, but chutzpah is not among them.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced Thursday that schools will be required to notify parents and local health departments of any COVID-19 cases among students or staff. Most administrators across the state find the order to be “reasonable,” Kevin Miller, director of government relations for the Buckeye Association of School Administrators, told ideastream Friday.

The state is requiring every school district in Ohio to come up with a reporting system to notify the community and health officials about COVID-19...

Updated: 5:00 p.m., Monday, April 13, 2020 K-12 public schools in Ohio are expecting roughly $460 million from the federal government to help ease the financial burden of the coronavirus pandemic. That amount is based on the state’s share of Title 1 funding for high-poverty schools and much of it will be distributed to local districts, including charter schools, accordingly.

A Democratic lawmakers and longtime critic of private school vouchers says she’s not convinced there’s time to do a short-term fix to a huge expansion of…

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District is slowly improving, but not fast enough. That’s the main finding of a report released this week by the…