A gloomy financial outlook described by Akron Public Schools Treasurer Jack Pierson two weeks ago brightened a little in the last week as the district got its first payment from the state's new ''evidence-based'' funding formula.

A recently retired Cuyahoga Falls art teacher has been named the 2009 Summit County Teacher of the Year. Max Schueneman taught for 34 years in Cuyahoga Falls City Schools and retired last school year. In addition to teaching art, he led the school safety patrol, created scenery for the holiday programs, and produced the Lincoln School Highlights video every year.

Kent State University might invest up to $3 million to become a preferred equity partner in a hotel and conference center.

Enrollment at independent colleges in Ohio grew modestly last fall over the previous year.

Ohio's fourth- and eighth-graders scored about the same on a rigorous national achievement test in mathematics as they did when the test was last given, in 2007, according to results released on Wednesday.

President Barack Obama's stimulus plan spared tens of thousands of teachers from losing their jobs, state officials said Monday amid a nationwide effort to calculate the effect of Washington's $787 billion recovery package.

Jeffrey Kolowith's kindergarten students read a poem about Christopher Columbus, take a journey to the New World on three paper ships and place the explorer's picture on a timeline through history.

The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday morning named schools in Cuyahoga Falls, Hudson, Louisville, Jackson Township and Wooster among this year's 314 national Blue Ribbon schools.

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