Ohio Department of Education

Dr. Stephanie Siddens has been in the interim job for almost a year, but a bill Republican Ohio lawmakers are backing would change the job significantly.

The bill that makes major changes to the state’s education department took a step forward Wednesday by passing out of the Ohio Senate, and it now moves to the Ohio House.

The state school board has to hire a new superintendent of public instruction following the resignation of the last one after less than two weeks on the job.

The former state school board member was once leading the process to find a new state superintendent before applying for the job himself.

The suit filed by the Groveport Madison Local School District is against Ohio's Department of Education

The group claiming to be against "critical race theory" wasn't the only one to show up.

There were measurable impacts of the pandemic on enrollment, attendance and test scores.

The deputy superintendent at the Ohio Department of Education who was expected to take over the reins on an interim basis when current Superintendent Paolo DeMaria retires in late September has resigned. That leaves educators watching carefully to see what happens.

The state superintendent plans to resign in September after more than five years of leading the Ohio Department of Education.

To get their employees into a priority vaccine group, most Ohio school districts agreed to return students to classrooms by Monday, March 1. They’ve been…