By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio – Strongsville students had a day off from school yesterday, so their replacement teachers could gather their belongings and make way for the union teachers who are returning to work after an eight-week strike.
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Eight-week Strongsville teacher strike ends with a compromise
By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio – District and union officials at Strongsville schools inked a deal Saturday to end an eight-week teachers strike that tore the small Ohio community in two.
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EAGnews video captures the fear, chaos gripping Strongsville, Ohio after seven-week teachers strike
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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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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Supreme Court decision a knockout punch for unions?
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a major victory yesterday for teachers and other public sector employees who don’t want to fund political causes they don’t agree with.
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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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Ohio union attacks friendly lawmaker for assisting Cleveland schools
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
CLEVELAND, Ohio – If the nation’s teacher unions were ever to open a Hall of Fame to honor their most reliable supporters, Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner would be a shoe-in.
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Reform-minded school board attacks runaway labor costs in Springboro, Ohio
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
SPRINGBORO, Ohio – When Gene Lolli recently announced that he will resign as Springboro Community City Schools’ superintendent at the end of the school year, he made it clear it was due to philosophical differences with several school board members.
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