Ashland Times Gazette
ASHLAND Jarrod Hartzler, executive director for the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, and Donna Collins, executive director for the Ohio Arts Council, hope Ashland High School’s Fine Arts Signing Day catches on with other schools across the area.
They both attended Wednesday’s event at AHS where 14 seniors signed “non-binding” forms stating they will pursue fine arts careers after high school. Another senior, Maiyah Lewis, plans to do the same but couldn’t attend because she was competing in a softball game. Pursuing that passion helps them through their life and it makes them well-rounded individuals,” Hartzler said.
GOP bill would extend vouchers to all Ohio schoolchildren
May 11, 2021 GMT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) All Ohio schoolchildren would be eligible for state vouchers to put toward private school tuition under a new GOP-backed bill in the state General Assembly.
The legislation was inspired partly by the coronavirus pandemic and the experience of parents who saw some schools halt in-person learning to slow the spread of COVID-19, Rep. Marilyn John, a Shelby Republican, told Gongwer News Service.
“The vision is really to provide greater choice for students and parents,” she said of the concept known as “backpack” funding because money follows children no matter what school they attend.
Ohio News
May 11, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) All Ohio schoolchildren would be eligible for state vouchers to put toward private school tuition under a new GOP-backed bill in the state General Assembly.
The legislation was inspired partly by the coronavirus pandemic and the experience of parents who saw some schools halt in-person learning to slow the spread of COVID-19, Rep. Marilyn John, a Shelby Republican, told Gongwer News Service.
“The vision is really to provide greater choice for students and parents,” she said of the concept known as “backpack” funding because money follows children no matter what school they attend.
The legislation would dramatically expand Ohio’s voucher system, which currently targets children in underperforming schools and provides vouchers of about $4,500 for elementary and middle school children and $6,000 for high schoolers.
GOP bill would extend vouchers to all Ohio schoolchildren
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) All Ohio schoolchildren would be eligible for state vouchers to put toward private school tuition under a new GOP-backed bill in the state General Assembly.
The legislation was inspired partly by the coronavirus pandemic and the experience of parents who saw some schools halt in-person learning to slow the spread of COVID-19, Rep. Marilyn John, a Shelby Republican, told Gongwer News Service.
“The vision is really to provide greater choice for students and parents,” she said of the concept known as “backpack” funding because money follows children no matter what school they attend.
Editorial Roundup: Ohio The Associated Press
Editorial: H2Ohio needs assured funding to protect Ohio’s precious water resources
The H2Ohio fund created by Gov. Mike DeWine and legislators in 2019 is a critical long-term work in progress. It aims, most prominently, at reducing, and eventually ending, dangerous toxic algal blooms in western Lake Erie by creating more local accountability on phosphorus-reduction plans, more farmer buy-in, improved monitoring of streams and rivers, widened use of agricultural best practices and the creation of new wetlands and other buffers.
But that’s far from H2Ohio’s totality. The program also seeks to ensure that both Ohioans and the state’s priceless freshwater resources are protected amid soaring water infrastructure costs, as price tags climb for lead service-line replacements, mandated septic-system upgrades, and modernized drinking-water and wastewater treatment plants.