Laura Hancock

1 week ago | cleveland.com | Laura Hancock

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The National Science Foundation ended a $4.7 million program in which 10 Ohio colleges and universities worked to recruit and retain racial and ethnic minorities in STEM programs. The NSF terminated the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation – named after the late Cleveland congressman Louis Stokes – nationwide. Most states had at least one LSAMP program, which aimed to diversify the science, technology, engineering and math workforce.

1 week ago | cleveland.com | Laura Hancock

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio House passed a bipartisan bill Wednesday that would require state prisons, as well as city and county jails, to provide free menstrual hygiene products to women inmates. House Bill 29 passed XX to XX. It now heads to the Ohio Senate for consideration. In 2022, when lawmakers had started looking into the issue, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction instituted a policy providing free feminine hygiene products, said state Rep.

1 week ago | cleveland.com | Laura Hancock

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Baldwin Wallace University English professor is receiving just under $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to implement new programs for students studying nursing and other health care fields. The health humanities programs that Denise Kohn is developing at BW were one of three projects awarded grants in Ohio. Kohn plans to unveil a health humanities minor, certificate and a general education specialty in the next three years.

2 weeks ago | cleveland.com | Laura Hancock

NewsUpdated: May. 21, 2025, 3:09 p.m.|Published: May. 21, 2025, 3:08 p.m.The kindergarten classroom of Valeri White, a teacher at Downey Elementary School in Harrisburg, Pa., on January 29, 2025. (Dan Gleiter | [email protected])Dan Gleiter | [email protected], Ohio - The Ohio House on Wednesday passed a bill that seeks to end confusion over kindergarten cutoff dates. House Bill 114 passed unanimously, 93 to 0. The bill now heads to the Senate for consideration.

2 weeks ago | cleveland.com | Laura Hancock

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio families tapping into federal funds to pay for tutoring and before-and-after school educational activities will receive additional time to spend down their accounts. However, the programs for which families can seek reimbursements may be more limited than in the past. Families that have been awarded funds from the Afterschool Child Enrichment Education Savings (ACE) Account program now have until Sept. 1 to spend awarded funds. They get until Dec.