Legislators say the budget still provides the most money the state has ever provided to education, but not all schools will receive increased funding.

Changes to Ohio's public school funding could have major impacts on Stark County's 17 school districts, according to officials. Superintendents, educators and school board members voiced concerns in a community forum Tuesday.

In seeking to reshape elite universities, the Trump administration is using several tactics, including freezing federal grants and contracts, and threatening colleges' tax-exempt status.

Kent State University announced it will be closing its LGBTQ Center, Multicultural Center and Women's Center in response to a new state law. Students expressed concern about the loss of support services they have come to rely on.

Protesters turned out to Pfeiffer Elementary Tuesday after Akron Public Schools said it might not be able to rebuild Pfeiffer Elementary and the Miller South School for the Performing Arts in the neighborhood as it previously thought it would be able to do.

The move to close the centers to comply with Senate Bill 1 comes after other major universities in Ohio have closed their diversity, equity and inclusion offices and ended their multicultural, women's and LGBTQ+ centers.

With another week of back-to-back marathon hearings behind them, members of the Ohio Senate are getting ready to release their version of the biennial state budget.

The college scholarship program has placed a social worker in every Cleveland school, but says budget issues may challenge that model.

Canton Mayor William Sherer II is planning a community forum for Stark County educators to discuss certain provisions in the proposed state budget that could impact public schools.

The rural schools say current funding levels aren't sufficient and will require them to make cuts.