“This is not the first time Beachwood student-athletes have been subjected to antisemitic and racist speech. We always hope it will be the last.” Those words from Superintendent Robert Hardis, who leads the approximately 90% Jewish Beachwood School District in Ohio, are a heartbreaking ...

While we strongly opposed Niles Mayor Steve Mientkiewicz’s annexation plan to manipulate the city’s neighbors by forcing annexation, we are pleased to see cooler heads prevailed and a new plan has been laid out to everyone’s satisfaction. The city of Niles in 2019 passed legislation ...

While we press teachers to do better in educating our children and preparing them for the real world, Ohioans also are expecting schools to fill nearly every other role for some kids, too. Schools are their safe haven, the place where they will be fed — maybe even get the shoes or warm coats ...

For those who grew up watching flying cars in cartoons or sci-fi movies, such an idea probably seems like nothing more than a Hollywood fantasy. But here in the Buckeye State we’re getting pretty good at making what once seemed like the ideas of a faraway future come to life right now. It ...

When we start picking and choosing what the public may know about crimes or the work and actions of their local police departments, where does it end? It is a slippery slope and, frankly, the public’s right to know always should trump privacy issues. Ohio’s Legislature must act ...

Comparisons of enrollment figures between 2019 and 2022 at several school districts listed in an editorial last Sunday were unfair because the Ohio Department of Education in 2021 altered the way the statistics were compiled. Correct comparisons of enrollment numbers provided by ODE are: ...