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State DOE budget cuts total $100 million
Ohio school districts that hoped to access state aid to purchase buses this year but have not already received the money may be out of luck.
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Taking a hit When Gov. Ted Strickland shaved $100 million from the Department of Education’s budget, he shied away from the school districts. The state’s regional educational service centers took the biggest hit: $10 million between fiscal years 2008 and 2009, nearly 10 percent of their budget.
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Volunteers rally on weekend to put students on a path to college Darina Pilipchuk sits in the quiet lobby of the BP tower in downtown Cleveland, surrounded by paperwork and a laptop. She could be spending this cold Sunday afternoon in February with her five-month-old son, but instead she chose to spend her afternoon helping other parents untangle the often-confusing maze of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form, answering questions about scholarships and loans along the way.
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OGT: We hardly knew you In response to recommendations from a national policy group, state education officials are exploring ditching the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) for so-called end-of-course exams. Officials contend the change would reduce the soaring numbers of college freshmen in remedial courses. Yet Ohio high school students are struggling to meet current standards, as evidenced when 9,000 failed to pass the OGT in time to graduate last June.
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State attempts to tailor help to each district's troubled schools Around this time of year, school districts that are in “improvement status” under the federal No Child Left Behind law have always had to submit improvement plans to the Ohio Department of Education’s intervention team.
For a big district like Cleveland, that meant a similar plan had to go to the ODE's literacy intervention team.
And another plan went to the special education intervention team.
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Taking a hit When Gov. Ted Strickland shaved $100 million from the Department of Education’s budget, he shied away from the school districts. The state’s regional educational service centers took the biggest hit: $10 million between fiscal years 2008 and 2009, nearly 10 percent of their budget.
...Read Full Story
Volunteers rally on weekend to put students on a path to college Darina Pilipchuk sits in the quiet lobby of the BP tower in downtown Cleveland, surrounded by paperwork and a laptop. She could be spending this cold Sunday afternoon in February with her five-month-old son, but instead she chose to spend her afternoon helping other parents untangle the often-confusing maze of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form, answering questions about scholarships and loans along the way.
...Read Full Story
OGT: We hardly knew you In response to recommendations from a national policy group, state education officials are exploring ditching the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) for so-called end-of-course exams. Officials contend the change would reduce the soaring numbers of college freshmen in remedial courses. Yet Ohio high school students are struggling to meet current standards, as evidenced when 9,000 failed to pass the OGT in time to graduate last June.
...Read Full Story
State attempts to tailor help to each district's troubled schools Around this time of year, school districts that are in “improvement status” under the federal No Child Left Behind law have always had to submit improvement plans to the Ohio Department of Education’s intervention team.
For a big district like Cleveland, that meant a similar plan had to go to the ODE's literacy intervention team.
And another plan went to the special education intervention team.
...Read Full Story
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