Tuesday, December 6, 2011
House Bill 136 would give out vouchers to families based on income instead of giving them to families with who attend failing public schools. What do you think about it? Take our poll.
The Lakewood School District is not a supporter of HB 136, a proposal that would give tax vouchers for education. If passed, HB 136 would give tax vouchers for education to families making a combined income of $95,000 or less — regardless of what public school the student is assigned to attend. Currently, the state gives vouchers to families assigned to drastically underperforming public school districts. “It would definitely hurt us,” said Lakewood Superintendent Jeff Patterson. “Can you imagine? We’re already strapped for financial resources. The losses would be huge." For example in Lakewood, if the bill passes, a family that makes a combined income of $95,000 or less could get a voucher to attend a private school in the area instead …
Saturday, December 3, 2011
The board will start interviewing the candidates on Tuesday, Dec. 6.
Clarification: Board President Matt Markling said the full list of applicants will be submitted to Lakewood Patch by Monday evening. Lakewood City Schools announced the six candidates it will be interviewing for the position of treasurer Tuesday, Dec. 6, according to a press release from the district. The candidates are: Board President Matt Markling said during the Nov. 21 Board of Education meeting he hopes to have a contract signed with the new treasurer by the end of this month — his last official day on the board. The new treasurer will start on Aug. 1, 2012, and current treasurer Rick Berdine’s last day is Dec. 31, 2012. “We’re not going to interview in public – they’ll be private interviews,” Markling said at the meeting. “If we don…
Friday, December 2, 2011
The board is expected to whittle down the field of 21 applicants at Monday's meeting.
The Lakewood Board of Education is expected to whittle down the field of applicants for treasurer at its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday. “All together, there were, I think, 21 applicants,” said Christine Gordillo, communications specialist at Lakewood City Schools. Lakewood Patch filed a public records request with the district asking for the names and resumes of the 21 applicants, but was denied access and told the information lies in the hands of the Ohio School Boards Association (OSBA), who is in charge of gathering the applications on behalf of the board. Superintendent Jeff Patterson said on Friday the board didn't receive the list from OSBA - a private group not covered under open records laws - until Thursday evening. …
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Details of Rick Berdine's resignation are murky, and one resident raised tough questions.
Clarification: The interview between board member Ed Favre and Lakewood Patch took place in mid-October. Questions arose about details of the resignation of Lakewood City Schools Treasurer Rick Berdine at Monday’s board of education meeting at Lincoln Elementary School. During the public comment section of the meeting, Lakewood resident Greg Calleri asked if Berdine had been asked to resign. “No comment,” Berdine replied. Calleri, who unsuccessfully ran for a board seat earlier this month, proceeded to ask if Berdine had a “gag order” that prevented him from disclosing any details about his resignation. “No comment,” Berdine replied. Calleri extended his question to the rest of the board. “Does anyone on the board have an answer other than…
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Treasurer Rick Berdine said "no easy answers" to budget problems.
Lakewood City Schools Treasurer Rick Berdine’s presentation at Monday’s Board of Education meeting adopted a refrain of hope. “I hope I’m wrong,” he said, more than once. In his Five-Year Financial Forecast presented at Horace Mann Elementary School, Berdine said the district’s operating deficit will be $1.5 million this year, and will grow to about $10.5 million by 2015, thanks to lost revenues from property taxes, state and federal funding, and charter schools. “I cringed putting these numbers up here,” Berdine said. The calculations cannot, by law, include projections for future levies, and did not make any proposed cuts to the $70 million budget. The calamitous economy has dealt a serious blow to the district’s coffers. In 2008, the …
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Discussion surfaced as data revealed truancy as number one reason for expulsion at LHS.
At Monday’s regular meeting at Grant Elementary, the Lakewood Board of Education began discussing whether or not to overturn a school policy that prohibits expelled students from taking online courses. This discussion surfaced when school officials received data that cited truancy as the primary reason for short term expulsions. “The number one reason for expulsion is attendance,” Superintendent Joseph Madak said. “We discussed the possibility of offering an online alternative for students who are expelled, in certain cases, to see if in fact that might be a way of not having them left out of or fall behind so far in the educational process.” If the policy is changed, then students who are expelled because of relatively light …
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Ray L
3:41 pm on Wednesday, November 23, 2011
why are they stone walling the questions is there somethind else????is it because our school board is in bed with him? more ›