Superintendent Michael Robinson has been sending emails using Gmail's confidential mode, which means they disappear from recipients' inboxes after a certain amount of time.

The district said it has been working to come up with a solution after record snowfall led to the collapse of the roof of the high school over the weekend.

Under a U.S. Department of Labor rule, a salary threshold was increased that requires anyone making under a certain amount to be hourly employees. A federal judge in Texas overruled that change in November.

The new members of Cleveland's Board of Education will face challenging decisions, with the district's budget forecast showing it quickly running out of money.

The decision comes almost two years after a local nonprofit had been granted a variance to build the center, which would have provided meals and other help for struggling young people.

The move comes as the district is quickly running out of time to approve a forecast to send to the state, which shows the broad strokes of how it will be spending its money over the next five years.

The university administration has told the faculty union of its proposed, providing a first look at what's ahead for the University of Akron as it navigates budget challenges due to declining enrollment. The proposal is not final.

Companion bills in the Ohio House and Senate would require public schools to adopt policies allowing students to be released for religious education.

The district says despite the levy, expenses continue to grow; meanwhile, changes to the state funding formula aren't helping the district as much as it would like.

School districts like Strongsville are doing some soul searching after levies failed in November, while others are facing the prospect of having to make further cuts.