Tagged: Education

The University of Dayton is unveiling their new RiverMobile, a mobile learning studio that puts the region's five rivers on 18 wheels. 

RiverMobile is a traveling exhibit converted from a semi-trailer that highlights one of our greatest local resources, the Great Miami River watershed.  the mobile unit was built by students in the University's Rivers Institute, and local donors provided a lot of support for the project. It's being unveiled this morning as part of the sixth-annual River Summit at the University of Dayton River Campus. 

Ohio's state school board has picked a top education adviser to Republican Gov. John Kasich as the new superintendent of public instruction. Richard Ross was selected over Acting Superintendent Michael Sawyers on Tuesday by a 10-6 vote of the State Board of Education. Democrats are blasting the choice of Ross, who has worked closely with Gov. Kasich on his budget and other education policy. But Ross says he's been hired by the state school board now, and is not an agent of the governor.

Gov. John Kasich got the attention of nearly every school official in Ohio when he said this while rolling out his school funding proposal in January.

“If you are poor, you’re going to get more; if you’re richer, you’re going to get less,” said Kasich.

Leaders from schools in some of the state’s poorest areas came to Columbus today, to say that when they studied Gov. John Kasich’s school funding formula, they didn’t like what they learned.