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Lorain Parents join HB 70 fray

Published on Nov. 15, 2018 | Updated 7:18 a. m.

A group of parents has joined the regional pushback against House Bill 70, helping circulate a petition slated to go to legislators later this month. →

Local News

Lorain fifth-graders learn about finding the silver lining

Published on Nov. 14, 2018 | Updated 7:23 a. m.

LORAIN — The first in Ohio, a fifth-grade class at Frank Jacinto Elementary School is participating in the Grateful Peoples Gratitude Writing Journal Project. Teacher Alexis Hayden said her class was selected by “High Voltage,” or →

National News

US colleges attracting fewer new students from abroad

Published on Nov. 13, 2018 | Updated 8:43 a. m.

The number of foreign students heading to U.S. colleges and universities fell again last year, the second straight decline after more than a decade of growth, a new report finds. Enrollment of new international students dropped by about 7 percent →

Local News

Vermilion officials pleased, grateful at levy passage

Published on Nov. 8, 2018 | Updated 7:53 a. m.

VERMILION — Vermilion Schools is “very pleased and very grateful” to district voters who approved an additional levy for school safety and security in Tuesday’s election, Superintendent Phil Pempin said Wednesday. Issue 13, →

Local News

Lorain Schools officials visit Texas charter schools

Published on Nov. 8, 2018 | Updated 6:42 a. m.

LORAIN — Lorain Schools administrators visited San Antonio charter schools — IDEA Public Schools — two weeks ago, raising the concern of the school board president over what the motives were and the cost of the trip. Lorain →

Elections

Firelands finally passes bond issue for new school

Published on Nov. 7, 2018 | Updated 2:51 a. m.

AMHERST — The Brew Kettle pub filled with cheers Tuesday night when supporters of the Firelands Schools’ bond issue learned that — after four prior attempts were defeated — the district finally got the voters’ OK to →

Elections

Vermilion school levy passes

Published on Nov. 7, 2018 | Updated 2:43 a. m.

VERMILION — Voters in Lorain and Erie counties Tuesday passed a Vermilion Schools levy for additional money to spend on school safety and security. Issue 13, a 0.68-mill additional levy for school safety and security, passed in Lorain County →

Elections

Plans set in motion for new campus now that Oberlin schools bond issue passed

Published on Nov. 7, 2018 | Updated 1:03 a. m.

OBERLIN — Oberlin Schools Superintendent David Hall said the district has plenty to plan for their new campus now that its bond issue met with voter approval Tuesday night. “We’ve got a lot of work to do ahead, we’ll need to →

Elections

Avon Lake residents approve substitute school levy

Published on Nov. 7, 2018

AVON LAKE — Residents approved a substitute levy for the school district, which will roll the schools’ three emergency levies into one continuing levy. The measure passed with 54.37 percent of the city for the substitute levy, according →

Elections

Elyria Schools' operating levy cruises to renewal

Published on Nov. 7, 2018

ELYRIA — Voters Tuesday expressed their support for the Elyria Schools by passing Issue 6, the district’s 4.95-mill operating levy renewal. “63 percent, we win!” Elyria Superintendent Tom Jama shouted to supporters of the →

Local News

Oberlin protests in hopes of saving staff member's job lost to budget cuts

Published on Nov. 6, 2018 | Updated 8:39 p. m.

OBERLIN — Dozens of Oberlin College students, staff and alumni walked Monday from the student union to President Carmen Twillie Ambar’s office in hopes of saving the job of a staff member that was lost to budget cuts. The Committee to →

Education

Lorain school district denies several records requests, others still pending

Published on Nov. 2, 2018

LORAIN — The school district denied several records requests from The Chronicle-Telegram in an email Thursday — a day after the paper published a story about the district’s slow response to such requests from the paper and other →

Local News

Several await records from Lorain Schools

Published on Nov. 1, 2018 | Updated 7:24 a. m.

LORAIN — The school district is taking more than a month to release requested information in some cases, according to records request logs from early July to Wednesday from the district. According to Ohio Revised Code, public records include →

Local News

Life skills school aims to rescue young lives

Published on Oct. 26, 2018 | Updated 7:04 a. m.

The military saved Glenn Faircloth’s life. At age 17, Faircloth, now the superintendent of the Lorain County Joint Vocational School, enlisted in the U.S. Army, learned how to drive a tank and spent four years in uniform, seeing far-off places like Iraq and Saudi Arabia. →

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Lorain Parents join HB 70 fray

Lorain fifth-graders learn about finding the silver lining

US colleges attracting fewer new students from abroad

Vermilion officials pleased, grateful at levy passage

Lorain Schools officials visit Texas charter schools

Firelands finally passes bond issue for new school

Vermilion school levy passes

Plans set in motion for new campus now that Oberlin schools bond issue passed

Avon Lake residents approve substitute school levy

Elyria Schools' operating levy cruises to renewal

Oberlin protests in hopes of saving staff member's job lost to budget cuts

Lorain school district denies several records requests, others still pending

Several await records from Lorain Schools

Life skills school aims to rescue young lives

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