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Senate Rejects Plan To Give More Money to Food Banks
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 5:01 PM
The Ohio Association of Foodbanks' Lisa Hamler Fugitt responded to the committee's decision, which cuts the $2 million allocated for food banks in the House budget plan.
Ohio Senate Makes Last Minute Changes To Budget Plan
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 4:02 PM
The Ohio Senate is expected to vote on its version of the budget tomorrow. As Ohio Public Radio’s Jo Ingles reports, some last minute changes have been made that are drawing both criticism and praise.
Environmental Firm Caught Dumping Frackwater
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 9:15 AM
A New Jersey frac-water waste disposal company's license has been pulled by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for illegally dumping. Tim Rudell of member station WKSU has details.
Reaction: OSU President Gordon Gee’s Retirement Sad But Not A Surprise To Many
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 7:47 AM
Ohio State University president Gordon Gee announced late Tuesday afternoon he will retire next month. WOSU’s Mandie Trimble reports reaction about Gee’s retirement on campus was mixed.
Local Latinos Want Their Voices Heard
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 5:28 AM
The dramatic discovery and rescue of three women held captive for years in a west side Cleveland house, brought the eyes of the world to the heart of Cleveland’s Hispanic community. ideastream’s David C. Barnett reports that the glare of that international spotlight has stirred discussion about the needs of a neighborhood that some say has been long ignored.
StateImpact Ohio
StateImpact Ohio is a collaboration among WCPN, WKSU, WOSU and NPR. Reporters Molly Bloom and Ida Lieszkovszky travel the state to report on the state of education in Ohio, where it’s heading and how it affects you. Read their reports on this site and listen to them on public radio stations across Ohio.
- Recent StateImpact Ohio Features:
- Grading the Teachers: The Sound of Ideas Takes on Teacher Evaluation, Value Added cogdogblog / Flickr Tomorrow at 9 a.m. WCPN’s talk show The Sound of Ideas will take on the topic of teacher evaluations and Ohio’s use of a statistical, test-based measure called... (more)
- Grading the Teachers: Where the "Most Effective" Teachers Are (MAP) This map shows how many of the teachers at each school received the state’s top value-added rating of “Most Effective.” Value-added is a statistical measure that looks at how much students... (more)
- Grading the Teachers: Teachers in Richer Schools Score Higher on Value-Added Measure Value-added was supposed to be the great equalizer — a measure of schools that would finally judge fairly how much poor students are learning compared with their wealthier peers. Meant... (more)
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