Ohio public schools

The advocates for school choice says too many suburban districts close their doors to children living outside their geographic boundaries.

With Central Ohio K-12 schools starting throughout the month, each district is setting its own COVID-19 policies to make sure they can begin the year on the right foot.

The resignation comes on the heels of the retirement of Superintendent Paolo DeMaria, who leaves in September.

The Ohio Department of Health’s latest COVID guidance for K-12 schools strongly recommends those who can be vaccinated get shots, and masks for those who can’t or choose not to. But it doesn’t mandate masks for all, like some individual schools are doing.

State lawmakers have sent to Gov. Mike DeWine a bill that would replace the A-F grades on report cards for Ohio’s more than 600 school districts with a new rating system. DeWine has hinted he will sign the bill, the second major overhaul for the school report cards in less than a decade

From increasing access to a wider variety of coursework to revamping curriculum in innovative ways, education strategists in Ohio say the impact of the coronavirus pandemic won't go away when the restrictions do.

The Ohio House and Senate are now considering different versions of school funding plans as part of the upcoming state budget. Some of the members \of a bipartisan group that created a school funding plan that was considered in the legislature last year want to refocus lawmakers on the proposal.

The Board of Education for a southwest Ohio school district has voted to defy the state’s mask mandate.

A coalition of progressive groups is coming together to support a bipartisan school funding plan that’s been put into the budget after languishing in the state legislature.

Leagues of Women Voters of Hudson, Kent, Akron and Greater Cleveland have come together for a Real Talk discussion about the Fair School Funding plan. Real Talk is a series of honest dialogues that address issues of inequity and discrimination.