A study by ProPublica, a national reporting organization, found that Ohio school districts with more than 3,000 students offer seven AP classes on average. That lags behind the national average of 8.35. But Summit County is outperforming the state and national averages.
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Mary Lou Dodson’s interest in school issues started years ago when her daughter was a freshman in high school and taking a science course that had no permanent teacher for six weeks. Dodson attended a school board meeting to raise concerns. And by the end of the meeting, she decided that she could make a difference as a member of the board.
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Tim Saxton enrolled in the only Advanced Placement course that Boardman High School offered when he attended in the early 1980s. When he became principal of his alma mater in 2001, the district still offered only AP calculus. But since 2004, that has changed. Boardman’s current AP classes — seven — are on par with larger Ohio high schools.
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Wayne County resident Brett Baker graduated from the University of Akron in 2007 with a master’s degree in education. Last year, after being laid off from a charter school in Canton due to budget cuts, he became one of nearly 2,450 Ohio educators who are no longer teaching. Baker sat anxiously with more than 700 college graduates who packed the Northeast Ohio Education job fair in Akron in March looking for a job in a shrinking job market.
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With the passage of the collective bargaining rights bill, formerly known as Senate Bill 5, Youngstown teachers and education unions are mobilizing for a ballot referendum to nullify the bill. NewOutlet reporter Doug Livingston explores how this issue has galvanized opposition from Youngstown educators.
read moreBy MELINDA GRAY and AMY BROWN Published in the Vindicator on Jan. 4, 2010 Eighth-grader Kim Collier ranks at the top of her class at Willard Elementary School in Warren. Yet she is trying to persuade her parents to let her leave the Warren City Schools to attend a charter school or private school. Kim’s parents are now struggling...
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