Cincinnati Enquirer

Ohio's "value-added" rating measures individual students' progress over time rather than comparing overall performance - and it brought some surprises.

About 300 people jammed into the Statehouse Atrium today to protest Gov. Ted Strickland’s decision to change the way abstinence education is taught.

Cincinnati School Board members agonized Saturday over how to close a roughly $75 million gap in the district's next budget.

Thanks to a pilot program this year called the Sophomore Initiative, UC is trying to ease the transition to sophomore year.

Cincinnati schools officials say new data indicate the system's long-term decline in enrollment is leveling off.

University of Cincinnati officials announced today that the university has received a donation of computer hardware and software worth $421 million from a consortium of technology and manufacturing companies.

Ten years after Ohio created charter schools, about 300 of the public schools attract almost 77,000 students and about $540 million in state funding a year.

Since 2000, Ohio disciplined 1,722 educators. Despite the misconduct, two-thirds of those teachers were sent back to their classrooms.

Norwood Middle School seventh-grader Katelind Lewis didn't want to go to school Thursday morning. The 13-year-old pleaded with family to let her again stay home, where she feels safe.

Eric Fingerhut says one thing about higher ed in Ohio is definite: The state will not go back to days of 9 percent annual tuition increases.

What began as a desperate couple's attempt to connect with a few parents has blossomed into a network that extends to several hundred families in Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky and beyond.

A tense debate over a far-reaching measure to “redesign” Cincinnati Public Schools split the school board along its usual fault lines on Monday, with the narrow majority approving the measure despite...

As the U.S. Congress contemplates changes to the six-year-old No Child Left Behind law, U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said Thursday that America’s schools need even more accountability...

Almost four out of every 10 Hamilton County third-graders are overweight, the American Heart Association says. The AMA and Cincinnati Public Schools have a plan to help elementary students shape up.

A year after new federal rules made it easier for schools to segregate classrooms by gender, the trend is exploding nationwide, but schools now realize that it's a tough change to sustain.