Eileen McClory

Dayton

Education Journalist at Dayton Daily News

Education journalist @daytondailynews. Native Daytonian. she/hers

Articles

Balancing workforce needs with student interests; How local schools are approaching job readiness

1 week ago | springfieldnewssun.com | Eileen McClory

“Our job is almost looking in that workforce crystal ball, shaking it up and making sure that we’re poised to supply the workforce even though it might be two, three, four years out,” said Nick Weldy, superintendent of the Miami Valley Career Tech Center. ExploreWhile career readiness has been something schools have talked about for a while, with new businesses moving into Ohio and a worker shortage already, career readiness has become a priority for the state.
Balancing workforce needs with student interests; How local schools are approaching job readiness

1 week ago | daytondailynews.com | Eileen McClory

âOur job is almost looking in that workforce crystal ball, shaking it up and making sure that weâre poised to supply the workforce even though it might be two, three, four years out,â said Nick Weldy, superintendent of the Miami Valley Career Tech Center. ExploreWhile career readiness has been something schools have talked about for a while, with new businesses moving into Ohio and a worker shortage already, career readiness has become a priority for the state.
Ohio Senate’s budget bill spells out plan to improve how schools teach math

1 week ago | daytondailynews.com | Eileen McClory

That’s partly because the ways teachers should teach math are not backed in specific recent science in the same way reading is, according to Aaron Churchill, Ohio research director for the Fordham Institute, an education think tank. There are obvious best practices in how to teach children reading, but the best practices for math are murkier, he said.
Local schools could see funding boosts, dips as budget impact varies by district

1 week ago | daytondailynews.com | Eileen McClory

According to the Ohio Legislative Service Commission, a nonpartisan governmental bureau that analyzes the effects of legislation, the Senate version of the bill increases the estimated allocation of funding to traditional school districts by $1 million in 2025-2026, to $8.22 billion total. In 2026-2027, the allocation increases by $13.2 million to $8.31 billion, compared to the House.
Sinclair plans to spend $5M to advance AI learning, says AI is the future

2 weeks ago | daytondailynews.com | Eileen McClory

Amato said Sinclair’s use of AI in its current form has been around since around 2021, when ChatGPT first entered the commercial market. But there are older AI tools used in other curriculum previously to ChatGPT and other common AI tools. AI is morphing and being adopted more quickly than other revolutionary technologies, like the Internet, Amato said. ExploreAmato said Sinclair wants students not just to learn how to use AI, but how to do so ethically and by making their future jobs easier.
School busing provision involving downtown bus hubs taken out of Ohio Senate budget bill

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.
Ohio House passes school bus safety bill spurred by deadly Clark County crash

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.
STRS names new executive director for teachers’ retirement system

2 weeks ago | daytondailynews.com | Eileen McClory

“Steven Toole has exceptional experience, having successfully led one of the nation’s largest public pension systems,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, retirement board chair. “Mr. Toole has also held senior management positions in the private financial services sector. We are confident he will do an outstanding job continuing STRS Ohio’s mission of providing a financial foundation for Ohio’s more than 530,000 active, inactive and retired members.” Toole said he is “thrilled” to become part of STRS.
Ohio House passes school bus safety bill spurred by deadly Clark County crash

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.
Ohio Senate budget lets schools keep more cash in the bank, still caps amount

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

ExploreSenate President Rob McColley, R-Napoleon, said his chamber met with Ohio superintendents who “all pretty much uniformly felt (30%) was too low of a number because it didn’t allow for much of the unanticipated, unexpected expenses that a school district might see.”Under the Senate’s plan, 26 out of 57 districts in Butler, Clark, Greene, Miami, Montgomery and Warren counties could potentially be required to give money back to taxpayers.