Education

State leaders, educators, and researchers joined the Ohio Education Association Monday to voice their opposition to a law that mandates a student be retained if they do not pass a third-grade reading test.

There are two resolutions before the Ohio State Board of Education that pertain to free breakfast and lunch programs for students.

It's the third time in the last ten years that the rating system for Ohio schools and buildings has changed, with each change said to be a way of making the system of grading schools easier to understand.

The 19-member board will consider a resolution from one of its members that would reject new federal guidelines ordering investigation of claims of anti-LGBTQ bias or risk losing funding for food programs.

Last year, Ohio high school students earned more than 650,000 college credits through College Credit Plus courses, but the state's audit suggested more kids could get into the program.

Teachers and their advocates suggest several reasons for the shortage, and a new study from a progressive group backs up at least one of them.

The state school board has to hire a new superintendent of public instruction following the resignation of the last one after less than two weeks on the job.

Dozens of demonstrators gathered at a church in Columbus to protest an Ohio House bill that would ban the instruction and teaching of certain concepts.

Erin Merryn shared her story of being sexually abused as a child while advocating for a bill to require sex abuse prevention education in schools.

The former state school board member was once leading the process to find a new state superintendent before applying for the job himself.