And the test results wouldn t count towards graduation or a school s state ranking.
That s the terms in House Bill 67 that passed the Ohio House 93-1 Thursday. The U.S. Department of Education turned everything on its head last week, Rep. Kyle Koehler, R-Springfield, said. This bill provides as much relief as it can and still have it pass.
His original plan had been to let districts choose whether they wanted to test at all, given the challenges of schooling during the coronavirus pandemic. But the Biden Administration squashed that idea when it announced states wouldn t get federal waivers. A lot of federal education dollars hinge on meeting certain requirements like taking these exams.
Three months after Jeff Talbert conducted a virtual listening tour to hear from residents, the Canton City Schools superintendent was back on tour answering their questions about the district’s sweeping restructuring proposal.
Talbert spent more than five hours during five virtual community meetings over the past two weeks fielding questions about the Design for Excellence plan, which restructures each of the district’s 22 school buildings in an effort to reduce the number of buildings and amount of staff to match declining enrollment while giving students more educational opportunities.
“It was good to hear from the community about what was important to them, said Talbert during an interview with The Canton Repository on Friday.
“We can’t make any promises but we’ve begun the conversation,” he said.
Talbert made the comments Tuesday during the district’s first virtual community meeting to discuss the Design for Excellence proposal, which restructures each of the district’s 22 school buildings in an effort to reduce costs, align its facilities to its declining enrollment and provide better education opportunities to all students.
Instead of delivering a presentation about the proposal, Talbert spent 45 minutes Tuesday answering questions that residents either provided as part of a survey or asked during the session. The meeting, the first of four virtual meetings to be offered, was geared toward families with students at the AIM Academy and at Cedar, Dueber, McGregor and Patrick elementary schools.