By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 The University of Toledo’s faculty senate yesterday passed a resolution aimed at preventing the “morale list” controversy in the college of education from happening again. “This is a university-wide issue,” said Mary Ellen Edwards, the education professor who proposed the resolution. “There are ways to evaluate our […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 In a shift that removes one of the final vestiges of former President Frank Horton’s administration, the University of Toledo has accepted the resignation of Dr. James Pope as dean of the college of business administration. Dr. Pope will return to teaching with the college’s faculty. Dr. […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 17 If the University of Toledo is to increase its enrollment, it will have to be done at the expense of other Ohio schools, President Vik Kapoor said yesterday. “The number of college students in Ohio every year is constant, and it’s going to stay constant,” he said. […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 14 BOWLING GREEN — An administrator at the University of Iowa has been named the new provost and vice president for academic affairs of Bowling Green State University. Dr. John Folkins was named to the university’s top academic position Monday by BGSU President Sidney Ribeau. “I am pleased […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 3 NEW LEXINGTON, O. — The coalition that sued the state over the way it pays for its schools will ask the Supreme Court to take control of the system because it believes the General Assembly can’t be trusted to handle it. “The time to do the job […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 3 NEW LEXINGTON, O. — Tales of woe filled the courtroom here yesterday as educators representing poor school districts told of collapsing ceilings, unsafe shop classes, and oppressive deficits. “There are serious safety issues for our children,” said William Phillis, executive director of the Ohio Coalition for Equity […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 3 NEW LEXINGTON, O. — Ohio’s school-funding plan doesn’t do enough to help poor school districts and it saddles them with unfunded mandates that end up costing money, a school official testified yesterday. “It’s overwhelming,” said Ernie Strawser, treasurer of the Jackson City School District in southeastern Ohio. […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 3 NEW LEXINGTON, O. — An expert on the way states pay for their public schools called Ohio’s new plan “illogical” and “arbitrary” and too easy for lawmakers to manipulate. “The state doesn’t in fact know what it is financing with this new legislation,” Kern Alexander, president of […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 3 NEW LEXINGTON, O. — Ohio may be fixing up some of its most dilapidated school buildings, but it is moving far too slowly to get to all of those that need repairs, an attorney for a coalition of school districts argued here yesterday. In more than four […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 3 NEW LEXINGTON, O. — On the math and minutia-packed fourth day of hearings here yesterday, attorneys for a group of school districts tried to poke holes in the work of the man Ohio hired to fix its school-funding system. Denver-based consultant John Augenblick spent his second day […]