If the Trump administration succeeds in shutting down the federal United States Agency for International Development, known globally as USAID, state colleges and universities stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in annual research funding.

Today, the United States Senate voted to confirm Linda McMahon as the 13th Secretary of Education. 

A new survey by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) of more than 10,000 early childhood educators across the country illustrates how insufficient public investment in our early childhood education system burdens educators across all settings and the families they serve; and how it threatens to further reduce an already insufficient supply of quality child care and early learning programs.

A co-sponsor of a new bipartisan bill to give Ohio public school students free meals is hoping to see it included as a priority in the state’s two-year operating budget due July 1.

Brothers who graduate from McClain High School in May have both turned their Eagle Scout projects into something to benefit the students and community of the elementary they attended. Nicolas and Nathan Alvarez went to Rainsboro for their elementary years, and now the school boasts a wooden bench, crafted by Nathan, and a little free library, made by Nicolas. 

Lynchburg-Clay fifth-grader Mackenzie Davis won this year's Ross, Pickaway, Highland and Fayette (RPHF) Solid Waste District annual creative drawing billboard contest for all fifth-graders in the four-county district. 

Leslie Phillips and Jessica Swayne were awarded scholarships by the Adams County Community Foundation to complete the Medical Assistant program at the Adams County Training and Business Center. 

A fatal school shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville in January had an unusual feature: the school had contracted an AI gun detection company to help identify and stop shootings, but the system did not spot the gun before a student opened fire.

Lynchburg-Clay High School is proud to announce Olivia VanFleet as their Work-Based Learning Student of the Month.

The Greenfield Exempted Village School District Board of Education will hold its monthly meeting on Monday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. in the Rainsboro Elementary cafeteria. 

Former Ohio state Rep. John Patterson, co-author of Ohio’s Full School Funding Plan — the final phase of which has an uncertain future in the next state budget — said in an online forum last week that the full funding is a necessity for local schools and a responsibility for the state.

Wilmington College seniors Sterling Goodwin and Kyleigh Caves will share their joy for singing at their senior recital on March 4, at 7 p.m., in the McCoy Room of Kelly Center. They are voice students of Bekah Wall, assistant professor of communication arts.

The Ohio Senate passed a controversial higher education bill that would overhaul the state’s public universities during Wednesday’s session. This came one day after more than 800 Ohioans submitted testimony against it. Fourteen people provided supporter testimony. The sponsor of the bill called those numbers “irrelevant.”

Junior Achievement’s IGen Ignition Day for the Greater Cincinnati area has wrapped up, and young entrepreneurs from Fairfield Local High School have taken the top prize.