Avery Kreemer

2 weeks ago | daytondailynews.com | Eileen McClory |Avery Kreemer

Dayton school administrators said they do not have the capacity to bus high school students while they are busing kindergarten through eighth grade students in DPS, private schools and charter schools all over the city. State law requires public schools to bus all kindergarten through eighth grade students who live more than two miles from school. In an urban district like Dayton, which has dozens of schools scattered across the city, this can be complicated. The measure was designed by Rep.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Eileen McClory |Avery Kreemer

Jun. 11—Anyone caught passing a school bus illegally would face significant fines and penalties to their driver's license under an Ohio House bill that passed 88-to-0. House Bill 3, the School Bus Safety Act, sponsored by Reps. Bernie Willis, R-Springfield, and Cecil Thomas, D-Cincinnati, would appropriate $10 million from Ohio Lottery funds to add cameras to school buses and educate drivers about school bus safety.

2 weeks ago | daytondailynews.com | Eileen McClory |Avery Kreemer

Part of the $10 million would go toward school bus safety grants for local school districts. Cameras could be installed on school buses to record people improperly passing a school bus and those recordings could then be used in a criminal case, according to the bill. The bill now heads to the Ohio Senate for further consideration. Willis introduced the bill last General Assembly following a fatal crash in Clark County on State Route 41.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Avery Kreemer

Jun. 6—For now, the Ohio Senate is going along on an Ohio House plan to make county coroners appointed by county commissioners instead of being elected by county voters. But, while the Senate didn't change the House's proposal in its initial draft of the state's two-year operating budget, Senate President Rob McColley, R-Napoleon, told reporters that there's still a chance the Senate could eliminate the House's proposal when it amends the budget next week.

3 weeks ago | daytondailynews.com | Avery Kreemer

McColley said he put a request out for those in his caucus with strong feelings on the matter to weigh in. “If members feel strongly that it should go back to the way that it is under current law, then there’s a possibility to see an amendment here in the omnibus,” McColley told this news outlet. “We didn’t see a lot of members — we saw some — but we didn’t see a lot of members asking for it to be changed back."The Senate is expected to make those amendments on Wednesday or Thursday of next week.