By Joshua Benton Blade Columbus Bureau Page 3 NEW LEXINGTON, O. — The consultant Ohio hired to fix its school-funding system testified yesterday that the state has done a good job – even if it hasn’t always followed his suggestions. “It would have been wonderful if they had taken all my recommendations,” said John Augenblick, […]
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By Joshua Benton and Carl Ryan Blade Staff Writers Page 21 Gary Hutchison, first-term president of the Perrysburg school board, publicly apologized yesterday for leaking details of a secret board plea bargain to the mother of an accused criminal – an act that has left some board members wondering if they can trust their president. […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 8 The Kirby family – wife Kathy and husband Albert – came away from last night’s Town Hall Forum more certain than ever how they’ll vote next week. Trouble is, he’s voting yes; she’s voting no. With eight panelists throwing out contradictory facts and figures – along with […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page ME1 Third graders at Greenwood Elementary are learning the value of a buck. It’s worth exactly one banana-shaped pencil gripper, one Detroit Lions pencil, and one rainbow-colored eraser. The 23 children in Roxanne Ward’s class have spent this school year running a school supplies business and have turned […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page W1 Poorly performing students need extra attention, and a new program in Springfield schools next year will provide just that, administrators say. The idea is to create a transition program for about 20 eighth graders having trouble in school – those who have failed three or four core […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 Defiance College will build a student union to replace the one damaged in a July 10 fire, the college’s board of trustees decided Saturday. The new union, which will cost $4 million, will replace the Enders Student Union and should be ready for use by fall 1999, […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page U4 Like any other college, the University of Toledo needs students. When they haven’t been forthcoming locally, the university has had to look elsewhere. They may come from Cleveland or Columbus, Beijing or Bahrain, but to university officials, what’s most important isn’t where they come from, it’s where […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page F1 In 1990, a group of black law students and alumni at the University of Toledo decided to turn the tables on the college of law; they graded it for a change. On minority issues, they said, the law school was only barely above water. It eeked out […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 19 As it has every year for the last decade, the University of Toledo’s board of trustees approved a budget yesterday that raises tuition for students. Beginning in the fall, undergraduates will pay 4.6 per cent more than they did last year, an increase several trustees criticized as […]
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