1+ hour, 47+ min ago  (453+ words) Levies are needed for essential services - schools, police, fire, and roads. But, asking local taxpayers to force the state's hand at reform by rejecting local levies will fail and cause arbitrary and unintentional negative impacts. Kettering is primarily a locally-funded…...

2+ hour, 31+ min ago  (681+ words) Private and charter school enrollment in Ohio has soared in the last five years while public school enrollment for K-12 has fallen by nearly 26,895 students, or 1.8%, according to the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. Still, the vast majority of students…...

16+ hour, 11+ min ago  (342+ words) More than 550 commercial driving schools in the U.S. that train truckers and bus drivers must close after investigators found they employed unqualified instructors, failed to adequately test students and had other safety issues, the federal Transportation Department planned to announce Wednesday....

16+ hour, 11+ min ago  (501+ words) More than 550 commercial driving schools in the U.S. that train truckers and bus drivers must close after investigators found they employed unqualified instructors, failed to adequately test students and had other safety issues, the federal Transportation Department announced Wednesday. The move…...

17+ hour, 38+ min ago  (388+ words) Central State University notified 14 faculty Tuesday by email that they would be laid off at the end of the academic school year. Benefits and pay will continue through August. A total of 11 of the 14 faculty were in the humanities, professors…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago  (424+ words) Central State University and the city of Xenia are moving forward to incorporate CSU into the city after a dispute over how much the university should be paying for water. In December, Xenia notified Central State the university's water would…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (633+ words) Haught's job in the construction industry allows him to work from home but, like many parents in the city, he and his wife were scrambling to plan activities for their children amid the uncertainty of a strike that has left…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (324+ words) Jefferson Twp. Local Schools hired Ronda Welch, a Columbus City Schools employee, as its next superintendent beginning March 9. Welch works for Columbus City Schools as a part-time expulsion hearing officer, she said. She previously was the executive director of elementary…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (261+ words) Jefferson Twp. Local Schools will eliminate high school busing and busing for students in grades K-8 who live two miles or less from their building next school year, the minimum transportation allowed by state law. The board made the decision to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (197+ words) Wright State University and Space Command have formed a working relationship, with the university joining a cadre of schools in the command's academic engagement enterprise. "We're the third institution in Ohio, along with Ohio State and AFIT, to join the…...