“JobsOhio was in a class by itself in terms of economic development organizations as far as dollars per job, attracting companies, capital investments, and more,” saysBen Safran, a partner at McKinsey who worked on the report. “But we also found it needed to address approachin...
Two Republican Ohio state representatives have introduced legislation to allow school superintendents to administer expulsions for dangerous students in their districts as they see fit. House Bill (HB) 206, sponsored by State Representatives Monica Robb Blasdel (R-Columbiana County) and Gary Click (...
School districts in Northeast Ohio are adding cameras to their buses to increase precautions for student safety. School bus cameras typically attach to the outside of the bus next to the stop sign that swings outward to alert motorists that children are either boarding or unboarding the bus. Th...
Economic development always requires a local partner. Ohio has foolishly weakened an equal partner in the process and turned that plus sign into a minus sign. Ohio policy fails to understand most economic activity consists of small projects that do not get the massive incentives JobsOhio provided ...
The supervisors and technicians with Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCD) remain ODA’s closest partners in H2Ohio development, management, and delivery. SWCDs cultivate relationships with farmers, offer guidance, and promote the program’s benefits. This trusted connection has been an ...
A Comparative Study of Principal Turnover in Union and Non-Unionized School Districts in Ohio. of those moved over a five year period, utilizing the Ohio Department of Education public access data base as the primary source of information to verify... SA Hawthorne-Clay - ProQuest LLC. 789 Ea...
There are more than 600 city, local, and exempted village school districts providing K-12 education in Ohio, as well as about four dozen joint vocation school districts, which are separate from the K-12 districts. Each city school district, local school district, or exempted village school dis...
Ohio school districts must adopt a policy to accommodate students’ sincerely held religious beliefs. The new law, signed Friday by Gov. Mike DeWine, was introduced more than a year ago. It requires the district to adopt a policy prohibiting the encouraging of students, employees, and applicants...
More than half of the school districts in Ohio have implemented cell phone policies, a year ahead of a deadline set by a new state law. Gov. Mike DeWine signed a law in May that requires local school boards to establish local cellphone policies rather than the state limiting use for stude...
Ohio School Districts and TypologiesFor analytic purposes, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce categorizes districts into eight typologies based on their geographic and socio-economic characteristics. This publication displays various statistics by typology to illustrate patterns of enrollment and ...