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2013 Ohio school report cards (searchable database) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Use this database to find out how each Ohio public school district performed in 2013 report cards issued Thursday, the first under a revamped series of measures assigned by the Ohio Department of Education. Gone are overall ratings such as effective and excellent. New are traditional school grades from A to F for a series of nine measures, but there will be no overall district grades until 2015. A summary for each of the letter-graded categories can be found below. Use this database to find report card details for each public school district and school building in Ohio. District report cards Building report cards Ohio's school report cards in 2013 include letter grades for eight categories.Plain Dealer file Here's a summary of the nine categories where letter grades have been applied as detailed by the Ohio Department of Education: Achievement categories Progress categories Graduation categories Gap-closing category Also:

education Screen reader users, click here to turn off Google Instant. MoreEven more from Google Sign in Web News Images Books Videos MoreSearch tools Maps Shopping Flights Apps All news Recent Sorted by relevance About 98,300,000 results Search Results Stay up to date on results for education. Create alert The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program. EducationNews.org For higher education funding, softer touch gave Cal State a leg up California State University officials had one question in mind 18 months ago: In a state with billions of dollars in spending obligations to health and welfare services, prisons and pensions, how do we catapult our funding needs to the top tier of budget priorities? The answer involved a carefully plotted campaign that involved engaging key legislators, an aggressive social media push and socks — yes, red socks, saying #StandWithCSU, that were a bipartisan hit with Sacramento lawmakers. Those efforts, and others, helped the 23-campus system win an additional $97 million in state funding for 2015-16. It also didn't hurt that Cal State is the largest higher-education system in the nation, with a vast network of more than 3 million living alumni, 460,000 students and 47,000 faculty and staff to help press its cause. And the university's appeal probably met willing listeners in the 39 members of the Legislature who are Cal State alums. Cal State's goal was to emphasize the positive.

Education Week American Education News Site of Record California Mandates Vaccines for Schoolchildren Photo LOS ANGELES — California on Tuesday became the largest state in the country to require schoolchildren to receive vaccinations unless there are medical reasons not to do so, as Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that ended exemptions for personal or religious reasons. Mr. Brown, a Democrat, signed the bill after it was passed by significant margins in the State Legislature. “The science is clear that vaccines dramatically protect children against a number of infectious and dangerous diseases,” Mr. Two other states, West Virginia and Mississippi, have similar vaccination requirements. Despite overwhelming evidence that vaccines are an essential public health measure, the number of unvaccinated children in California has been rising, partly because personal and religious exemptions have been easy to obtain. An outbreak of measles in California this year, which began at Disneyland, was attributed in part to the disease’s being spread by children who had not been vaccinated.

Osborne accused of picking on young people with ‘earn or learn’ budget George Osborne exhorted young people to “earn or learn” in a budget speech that also cut their entitlement to receiving benefits and student grants, prompting complaints they had been unfairly targeted. The tone of the chancellor’s strict carrot-and-stick approach was established by his planned “youth obligation” for 18 to 21-year-olds on universal credit, which he said would provide them with “an intensive regime of support from day one of their benefit claim”, from April 2017. At the same time, Osborne said housing benefit would no longer be automatically available for 18 to 21-year-olds. “It is not acceptable that in an economy moving towards full employment some young people leave school and straight on to a life on benefits. The proposed new national living wage – one of the centrepieces of the Osborne budget – which is being introduced next year at £7.20, and rising to £9 by 2020, will not apply to those under 25. “I just feel gutted.

Education Dept. dismisses Asian groups' complaint WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department on Tuesday dismissed a complaint against Harvard University by some Asian-American groups who say the university uses racial quotas to keep out high-scoring Asians. The complaint was filed in May with the department's civil rights office by more than 60 Chinese, Indian, Korean and Pakistani groups. Education officials said the complaint was dismissed because similar concerns were the focus of a federal lawsuit. The complaining groups said they were "very disappointed." Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were sued last year by some rejected applicants who want affirmative action policies banned. Harvard said its admission policies have been found to be "fully compliant with federal law" and said it "has demonstrated a strong record of recruiting and admitting Asian-American students."

Senate, House look to update Bush-era education law By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is making another run at rewriting the Bush-era No Child Left Behind education law, even as the Obama administration urges changes it says would ensure that schools are held accountable when their students are seriously lagging behind their peers in better-performing schools. The Senate opened debate Tuesday on an update to the 2002 law, with the bill's main sponsor, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., calling it "the most effective path toward higher standards, better teaching and real accountability." The annual reading and math tests outlined in No Child would continue to be a part of the law. The bill also would expressly prohibit the federal government from requiring or encouraging any specific set of academic standards — a reference to the Common Core standards, which were drafted by the states with the support of the administration but have become a rallying point for those who want a smaller federal role in education.

L.A Unified takes on sexting with education campaign, not punishment When Viviana Martin Del Campo walked into her sixth-period geometry class at Venice High School in March, she saw a group of boys huddled over a cellphone, laughing. The target of their attention turned out to be a sexually explicit photo of two classmates. The photo, circulated on social media, embroiled the school in turmoil after the arrests of 15 boys, mostly on campus, on suspicion of sexually assaulting two girls. But what shocked Viviana, 16, wasn't so much the photo. "I didn't take it as much because it kind of happens often," she said. As teens' access to social media expands — 92% report going online daily and three-quarters have access to smartphones, according to a 2015 Pew Research Center report — sexting has also proliferated. "It's a perfect storm of adolescent hormones coupled with the immediacy of a smartphone," said Jeff Temple, an associate professor and psychologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch who coauthored the sexting study. L.A.

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