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Wright State University students graduate in a December ceremony. Recent Ohio legislation introducted would block universities from offering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, prohibit full-time university faculty from striking, and require universities to “affirm and declare that the state institution will not encourage, discourage, require or forbid students, faculty, or administrators to endorse, assent to, or publicly express a given ideology, political stance, or view of a social policy, nor will the institution require students to do any of those things to obtain an undergraduate or post-graduate degree.” ERIN PENCE/WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY

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Extremist or promising? Reaction to Ohio’s ‘anti-DEI’ bill in college campuses varies

$A naturalization ceremony was held Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, at Oakwood High School School, during which 38 people from 22 different countries became U.S. citizens. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

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‘The very best thing I do:’ 38 immigrants welcomed as new U.S. citizens

Ohio Department of Education and Workforce director Steve Dackin visited Jacob Coy Middle School in Beavercreek with Prisms Founder & CEO, Anurupa Ganguly, Beavercreek superintendent Paul Otten and Montgomery County Educational Service Center superintendent Shannon Cox. The four were exploring how Prisims technology could be used in the classroom. Courtesy of the MCESC

Local districts say virtual reality technology gets students engaged, learning in math...

$Start of the school day Thursday, March 21, 2024 at Broadway Elementary School in Tipp City. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Tipp City has tense debate over single vs. group restroom plan for new school

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Kettering Fairmont’s Take Hope to the Hoop raises awareness about suicide prevention

Northmont City School District. AIMEE HANCOCK/STAFF

Northmont schools to ask voters for tax levy after pair of 2023 rejections

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New law allows Ohio school kids to be expelled for longer period

Beavercreek High School curriculum supervisor Josh Baker checks-out newly installed large screens for the school's new computer science career tech classroom. JIM NOELKER/STAFF

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Beavercreek puts levy to build new high school on May ballot

The Miami Valley School is fundraising $8.5 million for a new cafeteria and learning space for its students. The rendering shows a proposed exterior view of the student union. Courtesy of The Miami Valley School.

Miami Valley School fundraising for new construction plans

The Franklin Board of Education formally dedicated its new $48 million high school at 140 E. Sixth St. on March 2, 2024. STAFF FILE

Franklin Schools to seek $4.5M levy on May ballot amid financial struggles

Buses in the Dayton Public Schools Transportation Center lot on James H. McGee Blvd. Eileen McClory/ staff

Dayton schools to have remote learning day Wednesday due to freezing temps

Smith Elementary School in Oakwood, shown Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, and Harman Elementary School are the focus of the second phase of the district's master facilities plan to be funded by May bond levy. JEN BALDUF/STAFF

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Oakwood Schools vote to place levy on May ballot

Kettering Schools is one of the only local districts impacted by a national school data breach. NICK BLIZZARD/STAFF

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Kettering, Troy affected by PowerSchool data leak, other districts say they’re not...

Yellow Springs school board members Amy Bailey (left) and Amy Magnus (right). Image from school board meeting Youtube stream.

Yellow Springs school board censures member

Oakwood High School student Lily Epley, 17, takes her turn on a flight simulator at the Lewis Jackson Airport in Greene County on Nov. 5. THOMAS GNAU/STAFF

Air Camp introduces former Northwestern superintendent as new executive director

With most roads in the area and being cleared, the sidewalks still remain snow covered, causing pedestrians to have to take to the streets Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025 like on Wyoming Street in Dayton. MARSHALL GORBY/STAFF

Who’s in charge of snow-covered sidewalks in area cities?

$First grade students in Sarah Jacobs math class work on addition and subtraction skills Monday, April 22, 2024 at the Primary Village North school in Centerville. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Enrollment at most local school districts dropping: ‘Where did they go?”

FILE - President of the Ohio Senate Matt Huffman listens to debate, Feb. 28, 2024, in the Ohio Statehouse Senate Chambers in Columbus, Ohio. Republican Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens' term-limited counterpart in the Legislature's upper chamber, Huffman, who was unopposed in the primary on Tuesday, March 19, for a House district in western Ohio and is on an unobstructed path to win the seat this fall, has openly touted his desire to be speaker. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, File)

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Ohio House Speaker says school funding model ‘unsustainable’; Critics clap back

Tecumseh Local School District Board of Education held a meeting on Nov. 19 to discuss items including arming staff and the released time for religious instruction policy. Brooke Spurlock/Staff

Tecumseh OKs plan for trained school staff to use guns in emergency response

Instead of going back to school Monday, Jan. 6, 2025 a group of kids were having fun sledding at Bomberger Park in Dayton. BILL LACKEY/STAFF

Schools explain decisions to close for second day after snowstorm

Central State University runs peer-to-peer learning on forest management in southeast Ohio. The university recently got a $1.2 million grant to improve tree planting in urban areas. Courtesy of Central State University.

Central State gets $1.2 million to plant trees in cities, educate about their care

Yellow Springs school board in turmoil; Magnus denies threatening people

$Students arrive Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024 for the first day of school at Beavercreek High School. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

5 top issues in southwest Ohio education in 2024

FILE - Students and parents rally at the Ohio Statehouse in support of possible changes that would increase eligibility for taxpayer-funded school vouchers to K-12 students statewide, May 17, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio. National Republicans are poised to support “universal school choice” as part of the policy platform they adopt at the 2024 Republican National Convention, which starts next week on Monday, July 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Samantha Hendrickson, File)

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Ohio adds $4 million to defend against private school voucher lawsuits

Dayton police arrested a couple of juveniles after altercations broke out in front of the downtown Dayton Metro Library on Sept. 12, 2024. CONTRIBUTED

Number of expulsions from school fighting grows in Ohio schools