Cincinnati Public School District

CPS makes changes to avoid "scrubbing" data

Ann Thompson — Mon, 13 May 2013 10:00:00 +0000

New policy

In order to comply with state rules, Cincinnati Public Schools says it has changed the way it reports when a student transfers from one school in the district to another. Instead of withdrawing the student from one school and waiting for him or her to enroll at another, the district will now enroll the student immediately in the new school and the new school will have the responsibility to make sure the studen

Carpe Diem charter school at Aiken High next fall

Ann Thompson — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:31:05 +0000

When the brand new Aiken High School opens this fall, students will be introduced to personalized learning. Part of the plan is a Carpe Diem charter school inside Aiken, the first one Cincinnati Public Schools has sponsored. There's a similar program in Indianapolis, and Ann Thompson went there to take a look and provide this report.

Effort underway to increase access to preschool education

Tana Weingartner — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:39:53 +0000

Business and Community leaders are coming together to launch a city-wide initiative to get more - if not all- kids in pre-school.

Studies show children who attend pre-school do better in school and in life. Advocates point out nearly 90 percent of a child's brain is developed before age five but kids typically enter kindergarten at age six.

The Cincinnati Preschool Promise aims to be a public/private partnership.

CPS goes outside the box to sponsor a charter school at Aiken

Ann Thompson — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000

It's unusual for a public school district to partner with a charter school, but that will happen this fall when Carpe Diem opens inside the new Aiken High School in College Hill. It is one of two schools at Aiken. The other is New-Tech, focused on project-based learning.

Report finds school districts scrubbed data

Ann Thompson and Jo Ingles (Ohio Public Radio) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:13:03 +0000

A new audit released by Ohio Auditor Dave Yost has identified more cases of school districts that are believed to have scrubbed data on state reports.

Four new school districts are identified in this audit: Canton City Schools, Cincinnati Public Schools, Northridge Local Schools, and Winton Woods City Schools. Those districts, along with five previously named: Campbell, Cleveland, Marion, Toledo and Columbus, are thought to have fudged data to look better on state reports.