East Cleveland superintendent: "It's a confirmation that the district has moved."

A revised formula for calculating fourth-grade promotion rates could lower report card scores across the state.

Nearly 105 million in federal money is being split between two grant programs that benefit charter schools: one for expanding schools designated as high-quality and one for building improvements.

Ohio will watermark report cards of the 52 schools to indicate the spring testing is under review.

Science of reading curriculum in childcare centers likely helped boost Ohio kindergarten readiness scores. Exposure to books through the Dolly Parton Imagination Library also likely paid benefits.

Taya Kidd, a second-grade teacher in suburban Columbus was surprised with the Teacher of the Year award at a school assembly.

In a settlement with the federal government, Ohio State University has agreed to pay $2.1 million to resolve an investigation into a former professor and employees in his lab with ties to the Chinese ...

A ruling by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals prevents Ohio from enforcing its parental consent requirements on social media while parties ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the case.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, noting he has signed four budgets, all with cuts in income tax rates, says that the issue of income taxes does not come up when never comes up when the state is talking to busin...

The Ohio Department of Health says scientific evidence for vaccine safety and efficacy is unchanged and that school rules for vaccinations written into state law are unaffected by President Donald Tru...

American Higher Education Development Corp., which owns Stautzenberger College, will pay the settlement to the U.S. Department of Education and a whistleblower who exposed the alleged scheme.

Four finalists from around the state, including one from Cleveland, were announced by the state board of education as finalists for the 2027 Ohio Teacher of the Year award.

Cleveland State's Talent Hub centralizes functions that had been separately handled across the university.

Ohio has revised a federal education waiver request after public school advocates criticized provisions allowing school closures and charter conversions, though some educators say the changes don't go...

Ohio State officials enforced the policy against pro-Palestinian speech but called a Lee Corso tribute "meaningful" despite acknowledging it violated the same ban, the ACLU says.

Reinforcement work on the South Plaza of the Ohio Capitol Square may push back the mid-September unveiling of the Ohio Women’s Monument.

Kent State's bold recruitment strategies come as Ohio universities face mounting enrollment challenges from declining birthrates and stricter visa policies under the Trump administration.

Former WCSB members have launched XCSB Alternative Media with streaming apps and a new studio. Meanwhile, a lawsuit against CSU continues in Cuyahoga County court.

Critics of a controversial plan that would allow the state to close struggling schools or hand them to charter operators after three years of low performance said the move was an end-run around the Ge...

A figure from the college admissions bribery scandal that involved Hollywood actors has given $10,000 to Vivek Ramaswamy’s Ohio gubernatorial campaign.

Gov. Mike DeWine signed a wide-ranging education bill that creates new math instruction requirements, and mandates student remediation when performance is low on the state report card.

The lead sponsor of a year-old higher education overhaul law intended to stomp out liberal “wokeness” in Ohio colleges and universities said the law's success can be seen in a rise in college enrollme...

While enrollment of 3- and 4-year-old children in Cleveland in quality preschool programs reached 50% in 2025, providers warn inflation, state budget changes and federal uncertainty are pushing them t...

SB 276 would mandate public and charter schools teach that education, work and marriage is the path out of poverty.

The state has already spent more than $1 billion on taxpayer-funded vouchers to support private schools in the 2025-2026 school year, and the total is expected to rise.

A 600-page education bill calls for expanding the state school board, addresses military deployment absences for local school board members and allows teens to work later on Fridays and Saturdays duri...

State lawmakers say a bill to help daycare workers find care for their own kids could open the field to more workers. Each new worker would create five new childcare slots, allowing more parents to jo...

Honesty for Ohio Education's Voucher Accountability Project launched with a website about the effects on vouchers for 609 school districts. It plans more public education.

House Bill 643 would limit EdChoice-Expansion scholarships after the state removed all income restrictions in 2023, making millionaires eligible for taxpayer-funded private school vouchers.

About 21,000 private school students lack guaranteed busing as districts cited driver shortages, bell times, conflicts with other routes that could make them impractical to drive. impracticality, rais...

A draft proposal Ohio is preparing for a waiver to opt out of certain requirements under the nation’s main K-12 law also describes how the state could close or privatized low-performing public school ...

Critics warn the state's proposal could dilute money meant for the state's poorest students and English language learners.

The bill would create an online comparison system for parents to evaluate private school performance against local public schools, among other provisions.

Gas stations and truck stops scored a victory Wednesday when the House voted to ban electric utilities from competing in the EV charging market, despite bipartisan concerns.

More than 55% of children under 6 lack adequate access to licensed care, well above the national average. Experts say the lack of childcare costs Ohio an estimated $5 billion a year in lost wages, eco...

Eight charter schools known as classical academies which serve almost 1,900 kids across the state may get an exemption from Ohio's requirement that they teach the science of reading.

Two appellate judges in Franklin County questioned whether the Ohio's education vouchers provide genuine since private schools make admission decisions.

A three-judge panel in a state appeals court in Columbus will hear arguments over whether two state private school voucher programs are constitutional.

The Center for Christian Virtue becomes the first Ohio organization to announce a federal scholarship granting program under the Education Freedom Tax Credit, which takes effect in 2027 across 30 part...

Two longtime Ohio political observers, one on the left and one on the right, doubt that campaigns to abolish property taxes and ban large data centers will get enough signatures to get on the ballot i...

Ohio school boards must decide whether to return to the ballot, make deep cuts or a combination of the two, in the wake of widespread voter rejection of school taxes on Tuesday.

Voters chose established politicians for secretary of state contests over political newcomers.

Record-high home values have pushed property taxes to high levels in over half the state, forcing school boards to try income taxes instead, some for the very first time.

Ohio's college enrollment totals for international students tumbled over the last year. The state suffered fifth-largest percentage decline in the nation, a study found.

Kent President Todd Diacon says state funding cuts have outpaced enrollment declines. Adjusted for inflation, state support today is 27% lower than it was in 2005, when enrollment figures were similar...

Republicans running for Ohio secretary of state say it’s too easy to cheat in voting, while Democrats say recent state laws making it harder to vote have crossed into suppression. Details on what they...

Republican Robert Sprague, the state treasurer and secretary of state candidate, has a new commercial promising to remove drop boxes that 154,430 voters used in the 2024 presidential election.

In 2012, then-Mayor Frank Jackson worked with then Gov. John Kasich, the bipartisan legislature and the Cleveland Teachers Union to pass a bill known as the Cleveland Plan. Provisions of that bill are...

Experts say Vivek Ramaswamy's proposal to merge state universities will encounter resistance from legislators, local leaders and families who depend on their regional schools.

A state program launched last year splits child care expenses between employers, parents and Ohio. These 21 businesses state have signed up to participate.