By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio – At a recent union rally in Strongsville, Ohio, a union speaker from Cleveland suggested that the community should be “kissing the feet” of the striking public school teachers.
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Strongsville union offers to end strike if district hands over $3.2 million in unexpected tax revenue
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio – Striking teachers in the Strongsville school district have a new message for school board members who refuse to cave to the teachers union’s tactics: give us all your money and the hostage situation will end.
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Striking teachers say school board spends too much to keep school open!
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio – How’s this for absurd?
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Students leaving Strongsville school district as teachers strike drags into fifth week
By Ben Velderman
EAgnews.org
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio – The Strongsville teachers strike is nearly a month old with no end in sight, and some families have had enough.
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Columbus mayor, school board at odds over district leadership plan
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The mayor of Columbus and the school district’s board of education are squabbling over the board’s plan to hire a new superintendent.
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Misconduct complaints against teachers sharply increase in Ohio
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Misconduct complaints against Ohio teachers have gone through the roof in the last few years, and experts are pointing to social media and improved reporting as the reasons.
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Strongsville strike costing high school students a pair of spring trips
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio – Congratulations to the so-called professionals who were hired to teach in the Strongsville school district.
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High school students walk out to protest union-school board contract impasse
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
LISBON, Ohio – Would anyone on a public school staff appreciate it two squabbling parents brought their loud argument into the hallways during classes? How about if school board members loudly debated the district budget outside classroom doors?
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Strongsville parents, students protest against striking teachers
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio – The parents and students of Strongsville schools are embarrassed by their local teachers strike.
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Teachers union reaches a new low by picketing in front of school boards members’ homes
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio – The students of Strongsville are in the middle of a semester trying to learn and move on to the next grade.
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School officials complain about budget cuts as they spend more money
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
DAYTON, Ohio – The snow may still be thick on the ground in many states, but a large number of America’s school leaders are already thinking about spring – and the new tax levies they’ll soon ask voters to approve.
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School vouchers on the legislative radar in Alaska, Ohio
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio Gov. John Kasich is asking lawmakers to pass a new school voucher plan that would allow a limited number of kindergarteners from low-income families to attend a private school beginning next fall.
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Teacher in jeopardy of losing job after posting duct tape photo on Facebook
By Ashleigh Costello
EAGnews.org
AKRON, Ohio – An Ohio middle school teacher may lose her job after posting a photo on Facebook showing her students with duct tape across their mouths.
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Columbus school district employees investigated for changing 311,000 final grades
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
COLUMBUS, Ohio – About 5,300 final grades for students in Columbus public schools were changed from failing to passing in the 2010-11 school year with the help of nearly 600 district employees, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
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Former teacher suing school district because she fears being around young children
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
MARIEMONT, Ohio – A former Ohio high school teacher has filed a lawsuit against her former employer, claiming she was the victim of discrimination because she was transferred to a middle school job and forced to retire early after explaining to administrators that she has a medically-diagnosed fear of young children.
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Hundreds of Ohio educators sign up for firearms training course
By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
DELAWARE, Ohio – Teacher union leaders across the nation seem unanimous in their opposition to the idea of arming school personnel.
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Homeschooled former egg farmer elected to represent ‘all options’ on Ohio board of ed
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
ROCK CREEK, Ohio – After stinging election defeats for the education reform movement in Idaho, Indiana, Michigan and other states, a lot of supporters are left searching for an inspiring story to rejuvenate their spirits.
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Unsustainable spending drives local school levies in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Next Tuesday, there will be 194 schools with levies of varying sizes on the (Ohio) ballot.
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Ohio teachers trying to take union fight from the classroom to the legislature
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A handful of Ohio teachers have decided that using their classrooms to promote left-wing causes to the next generation of voters is an inefficient way of advancing their political agenda. Read More »
Teachers union wants to get its grubby mitts on charter schools
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Imagine Justin Bieber announcing that he’s going to show Neil Young how to write a song.
That would be ridiculous, right?
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