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Former VA Official Caught Up In Cuyahoga County Corruption Probe
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 4:48 PM
The former Director of the Cleveland VA Medical Center was arrested this morning, and then hit with three dozen criminal charges in a U.S District Court. ideastream’s Brian Bull reports:
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State Rep. Bob Hagan Makes Another Run at Tax on Oil and Gas Drillers
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 4:55 PM
A few months after Gov. John Kasich proposed a tax on oil and natural gas drillers, a Democratic lawmaker has done the same thing. But Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler reports, while it’s a different approach, it may be likely to suffer the same fate.
Doctors and Democratic Lawmakers Sound Off Against Ohio Anti-Abortion Bills
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 4:25 PM
Some Ohio doctors and medical clinic managers say if the Ohio legislature passes some anti-abortion bills now under consideration, it’s very possible there will be a shortage of doctors and medical facilities to serve the needs of Ohio women. And they warn more Ohio women will die due to complications from pregnancies. Ohio Public Radio’s Jo Ingles has details.
State Budget Conference Committee Receives New Numbers on Medicaid and Revenue
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 10:15 AM
The committee working out the differences between the House and Senate versions of the state budget now has updated estimates on tax revenues and Medicaid. Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler reports those numbers were higher than estimates, but they came with a caution.
Ohio Lawmakers Consider Multiple Medicaid Bills
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 9:54 AM
Ohio lawmakers continue to grapple with the question of what to do with the Medicaid program. Gov. John Kasich, business groups and Democrats want the state to expand Medicaid as part of the budget. But conservatives in the legislature see that as buying into Obamacare and throwing good money into a flawed program. As Ohio Public Radio’s Jo Ingles reports, lawmakers are considering various bills to deal with the medical program for the poor in the future.
Academic Conference in Cleveland Addresses Unanswered Fracking Questions
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 9:08 AM
Cleveland is playing host this week to a national conference on shale gas development. Economists and environmental scientists discussed the promise and pitfalls of hydraulic fracturing at Case Western Reserve University -- and on 90.3's The Sound of Ideas. ideastream's Nick Castele reports.
Three Arrested In Forced Labor Case
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 7:11 PM
Authorities have arrested three people in northern Ohio on charges of enslaving a mentally disabled young mother and her daughter over a two-year period. ideastream's Bill Rice reports.
Sherrod Brown Pushes Legislation To Prioritize Skilled U.S. Workers
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 4:29 PM
Businesses would have to prioritize hiring an American worker over a foreign one, under a bipartisan amendment announced today by U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio. Ideastream’s Brian Bull reports.
Grading the Teachers: Little Connection Between Teacher Pay and Performance
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 9:45 AM
This week The Plain Dealer and public radio's StateImpact Ohio have been reporting on a new measure of teacher performance. It's called "value-added." It rates individual teachers based on the amount of progress their students make, using their test scores and a complex statistical formula. About 16,000 teachers are tracked in the initial roll out. The results will play a major role in determining a teacher's pay, starting next year in some schools. That would be huge change for Ohio. StateImpact's Ida Lieszkovszky has our latest installment of Grading the Teachers.
SAIDO Comes To Cleveland
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 7:35 AM
Another ground breaking health technique is being pioneered locally, but NOT from the region's major Health Care centers... This learning tool has arrived on US shores from Japan. It's aim is to help reverse the effects of dementia, and it is the topic of today's Tuesday Check up.
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:
- How is Value-Added Calculated? In reading and listening to our recent series of stories with The Cleveland Plain Dealer about how Ohio is using a statistical measure called value-added to measure whether teachers provide a year’s... (more)
- 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)
- More features from StateImpact Ohio
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