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Margo Rutledge Kissell

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Margo Rutledge Kissell is a reporter for the Dayton Daily News. She covers K-12 education for Dayton and the region.

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Ohio receives ‘B’ in report on teaching science in K-12

9:16 PM Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Ohio does a better job of teaching science to students in grades K-12 compared to most other states that “remain mediocre to awful,” according to a new report released Tuesday.

Malls trying to prevent melees

10:39 PM Sunday, January 1, 2012

The recent roving melee at the Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis involving scores of juveniles is the latest example of pandemonium breaking out in a shopping center.

Ohio leads nation in green school projects

12:01 AM Monday, December 12, 2011

Ohio leads the country with more green school projects under way than any other state, the U.S. Green Building Council said in a report released today.

School results improve on state’s report card

11:24 PM Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Across the Miami Valley, nearly one-quarter of schools improved their grades on the 2010-11 state report cards, according to a Dayton Daily News analysis of the data.

School bus crashes on the rise across region

9:46 PM Monday, August 15, 2011

The number of school bus crashes decreased statewide last year but rose in Montgomery, Greene, Miami and Butler counties, according to Ohio public safety statistics.

States to get waivers from federal testing mandates

9:58 PM Monday, August 8, 2011

The Obama administration said Monday it will grant waivers to free states from the stringent testing mandates in the No Child Left Behind school accountability law as long as they pursue other reform efforts.

Cursive writing no longer required for school districts

10:38 PM Sunday, August 7, 2011

The new Common Core curriculum that Ohio has adopted doesn’t require schools to teach cursive writing.

Ohio budget keeps taxes, cuts school and local government funding

11:09 PM Tuesday, June 28, 2011

COLUMBUS — Ohio’s next two-year budget, which the House votes on today and Gov. John Kasich is expected to sign Thursday, holds the line on taxes, but cuts funding to schools and local governments, allows tuition hikes and sells off government assets.

Schools ask for tax hikes while facing deep budget cuts

10:04 PM Saturday, April 30, 2011

Booming enrollment and huge cuts in state aid are sending Beavercreek City Schools to the polls Tuesday for new money for the first time in eight years.

Kasich plan quadruples schooling vouchers

11:37 PM Sunday, April 17, 2011

DAYTON — The number of tuition vouchers parents could use to move their children from chronically low-performing public schools to private schools would quadruple under Gov.

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