Patrick O'Donnell

A panel that monitored and promoted school choice has disbanded after more than a decade.

Swiss Institute shows Indiana business, school, state officials how cooperation can offer career training for high school students.

“Extraordinary” efforts funded by “outsized” federal COVID aid to the high-poverty district will be cut back as flow of dollars stops.

“It’s going to be a big explosion, OK buddy?” instructor Kyle McCorvey says, handing Isaiah Palmore, 4, a cup of baking soda. “Uh oh,” Isaiah’s grandfather Malcolm tells him, as he starts to pour the baking soda into a jar of vinegar. “Get ready.” As the soda, a base; and the vinegar, an acid, mix, […]

Staff at St. Stanislaus elementary school in Cleveland have spent the school year constantly reminding students to keep masks up over noses, to keep safe distance, and sanitizing everything, including the Easter eggs given to the youngest students. They even had students do the “monster walk” – walking between rooms with arms stretched out in […]

Ohio legislators hope to end a two-decade fight over the constitutionality of school funding this fall with a much-anticipated new formula for state aid that would give schools an estimated $2 billion more annually when fully implemented. But the recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is adding an extra challenge to an already-difficult fix, raising […]

“Take out your math books,” teacher Jessica Montanez tells her first-graders at Cleveland’s St. Stanislaus Elementary School, looking at her students through her plastic face shield. “Take out your pencils.” As students in the classroom, all wearing masks, start going through their desks, Montanez turns away and looks at the webcam on her own desk […]

The coronavirus may have closed school buildings in Cleveland for at least several weeks, but it’s not stopping nonprofits like the Boys and Girls Clubs or the YMCA from giving students a place to do their online lessons while their parents work. The organizations are joining a growing movement in C…