The Partnership In The News

2008

  • March 17, 2008 – Ohio College Access Network to help communities keep disadvantaged kids in college – March 17, 2008 – OCAN Press Release – Columbus, Ohio – This month the Ohio College Access Network (OCAN) launched a new phase of college retention grants to help low-income or...

  • February/March 2008 – OGT: We Hardly Knew You – Catalyst Ohio – State considers end-of-course exams to replace cumulative test that derailed thousands of students from graduation. New tests are likely to be even more rigorous. In response to recommendations from a national policy group...

2007

  • December 9, 2007- Education Notes – Canton Repository – TG, a public, nonprofit corporation that serves as an administrator of the Federal Family Education Loan Program, has awarded a $113,100 grant to Stark Education Partnership, a Canton nonprofit organization. The partnership will use...

  • October 31, 2007- Education and Economic Development – Stark Development Board e-Newsletter – Stark County is fortunate to have the Stark Education Partnership which is nationally recognized as a leader in the area of educational change and reform. The Partnership was founded...
  • October 2007- Educators' Conference: Dialogue with Business Leaders is Crucial – Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce Action Newsletter – Stark County needs educators and businesses to work together to create a skilled workforce with job candidates who are ready and able to meet...
  • October 9, 2007- Six in Stark Named "Schools of Promise" – Canton Repository – The Ohio Department of Education has recognized six schools in Stark County as "Schools of Promise." "At a time when schools are being held more accountable for all groups of children ... these Schools of...

  • September 23, 2007- Grant Helps Teachers Gain Adjunct Status – Canton Repository – A grant awarded to the Stark Education Partnership will help high school teachers take the graduate-level courses needed to qualify for adjunct college and university professorships. As adjunct professors...
  • September 19, 2007- TG Awards More Than $5.2 million in Competitive Grants to Advance College Access and Student Retention – TG Press Release – TG has awarded more than $5.2 million in grants to 42 institutions and non-profit organizations to advance access to colleg...
  • Spring 2007- On Course for Success at KSU/Stark – OCAN Access Newsletter – The school newspaper article carried the headline “The whereabouts of the mysterious Mr. G.” Students at Canton South High wanted to know where Ryan Gracia, their school based OCAN...

  • April 24, 2007- Goal of Competition: Aid Region's Economy – Canton Repository – Here is a great opportunity to lay more groundwork for economic growth in this region of Ohio. There is a competition for federal funds that we want to tell you a little about, while wishing the best for...

  • April 17, 2007- Two Projects Selected to Compete for Federal Regional Economic Development Grants – Ohio Department of Job and Family Services – The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) today announced that two regional partnership projects have been selected to...
  • April 2, 2007- Action Now – Crain's Cleveland Business – The consortium of philanthropic organizations known as The Fund for Our Economic Future last week unveiled Advance Northeast Ohio, its action plan for promoting economic development on a regional basis. Its goal is “to build a brighter...

  • March 2007- Not for the Timid: Creating Breakthrough High Schools in Ohio – Center for Reinventing Education – A national publication funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the Center for Reinventing Education which references the Stark Education Partnership. (see page 66)

  • March 29, 2007- City Schools are Right to Set Lofty Goals – Massillon Independent – There’s no arguing the fact that, in many ways, athletics put Massillon on the map – and there’s not a thing wrong with that. The rich history of Washington High’s football program is one in which this...

  • March 28, 2007- Massillon Schools Raise Bar – Massillon Independent – Football has always been Massillon’s defining program. That, according to Massillon City School officials, is going to quickly change. In the next five years, the district will be as recognized for academics as it is for football...

  • January 24, 2007- Seamless Education – Canton Repository – Gov. Ted Strickland spent a day this week with the presidents of dozens of Ohio colleges and universities. The day was spent discussing ways to deal with some of the biggest challenges faced by institutions of higher education... .
  • January 19, 2007- Group Seeks Better Educated Population – Canton Repository – Education is the fastest way to improve life for Stark County residents, say local business and education professionals. But how can that be achieved? Richard Stoff, president of the Ohio Business Roundtable...

2006

  • November 25, 2006- Compton School Students Get a 'Taste of College' – Canton Repository – College isn’t far off for fifth-grader Iniah Dunbar. She got a “taste” of what it’s like to be on campus recently, and that has Iniah and her fellow Compton School classmates looking forward to the day... .

  • November 2, 2006- Grants Will Give High School Students Exposure to College - Canton Repository – Students in three counties will have the opportunity to experience college - for free - without leaving the high school classroom. It's all because of a $225,000 grant awarded to the...
  • August 23, 2006- 21st Century Teachers will Need New Vocabularies, Resources - Canton Repository- Intel’s chairman, Craig Barrett, in an address to the Education Writers Association on June 2, said, “The blunt truth is: The new global economy is technology-based...”

  • June 13, 2006- More Canton City Graduates are College-Bound - Canton Repository- At one time, Charlene Jackson didn’t think college was an option. She struggled with low self-esteem, and she was dealing with too much at home — “more than any 11-year-old should ever have to...

  • Spring 2006, Volume 5, Issue 1 - College Access and P-16: A Winning Combination - CAN Access newsletter – College access in Stark County is a result of multiple pathways with converging strategies and broad-based community support. How did that happen? The answer is the Stark...

  • March 12, 2006- Ohio's Test to Graduate Debated - Canton Repository- Ohio spends more than $20 million each year on tests seniors must pass to graduate from high school. Some neighboring states spend a fifth of that. Others don’t give the tests at all. Locals are questioning whether...

  • Press Release
    January 31, 2006- Teams Across the State Come Together to Plan Local P-16 Councils - KnowledgeWorks Foundation Press Release - KnowledgeWorks Foundation is convening for the first time local and...

  • January 31, 2006- Read Dr. O'Neill's speech from the KnowledgeWorks Foundation Conference Thinking P-16 and Beyond - Thank you Terry Seery for that wonderful introduction. I am humbled by what Governor Taft and Stephen Portch have said about our local P-16. Please know that I...

  • January 27, 2006- Listen to WKSU's Daniel Hockensmith report Taft Seeks Support for Education Plan – Gov. Bob Taft has taken his call for tougher educational standards for high school students on the road. One of the first stops was Thursday at Timken High School in Canton...
  • January 27, 2006- Taft Visits Canton Timken High to Push Academic Standards Plan - Beacon Journal- Gov. Bob Taft went to Canton Timken High School a day after his state-of-the-state speech seeking support of his plan to raise the academic standards for getting into Ohio's four-year...
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  • January 27, 2006- Taft Touts Education Here - Canton Repository - Timken High School senior James Jeter said students need to be pushed to succeed. “We want to do greater things ... to go farther,” said Jeter, who will graduate in June with 24 college credits. Jeter spoke at a roundtable...

  • January 26, 2006- Taft Promotes Education Reform Agenda in Canton - Press Release, Office of the Governor - Governor Bob Taft today discussed his education reform agenda during a roundtable discussion with education and community leaders at Timken High...
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  • Press Release
    January 25, 2006- Celebrating Leadership in Stark County: Stark Education Partnership Awards $70,000 for Exceptional Education Leadership in Stark County, Ohio Stark Education Partnership Press Release - The Stark Education Partnership is pleased to announce that...

  • January 3, 2006- Judge Has Idea Worth Pursuing - Canton Repository -"Once again, Stark County offers leadership in public education. We'll see if anyone in the state capital pays attention to the gesture. In a commentary published Sunday, retired 5th District Court of Appeals Judge W. Don..."
  • January 1, 2006- Ohio Should Abandon Graduation Test, Use ACT Instead - Canton Repository - "In The Repository of Dec. 13, there was an article about errors in grading the Ohio Graduation Tests affecting 1,599 students, including some in Stark County. The errors were made by a..."

2005

  • Holiday Issue VII - National Bank Supports Economic Development Through Education - Stark Styles - "A fundamental premise is if you are going to have economic development, you must have educated people to attract businesses and industries to this community," declared Stark...

  • November 16, 2005- "League of Women Voters Hosts Education Forum" -Canton Repository - The tie between education and the economy is something Stark County residents can't afford to ignore. Jobs are often won or lost by the sheer muscle power of a community’s educational...

  • September 14, 2005- "Governor Taft Chairs Partnership for Continued Learning Inaugural Meeting" - Columbus - Governor Bob Taft today chaired the inaugural meeting of the Partnership for Continued Learning, the Governor’s new education initiative to strengthen and integrate...
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  • September 13, 2005- "Cantonians Named to State Education Partnership Board" - Canton Repository - Two community leaders have been named members of a state board that aims to strengthen the bridge between education and the workplace. Gov. Bob Taft called for the creation of the...

  • September 12, 2005- "Governor Taft Announces Launch of Major Education Initiative" - Governor Bob Taft today announced the members of the newly formed Partnership for Continued Learning, which will meet for the first time on Wednesday, September 14. The Partnership was created to...
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  • September 8, 2005- "P-16 Plans..." - Citizen Tribune - ...The council also learned Wednesday that it will be featured in a Web-published book on the P-16 movement as an example of how to establish a successful program. Dr. Joe Rochford with the Stark Education Partnership Inc. of Canton, Ohio...
  • June 1, 2005- "Early College Offers Amazing Opportunity" - Canton Repository - Imagine finishing four years of high school with a diploma and an associate degree from Stark State College of Technology. It is an amazing opportunity, and it is open to Timken Senior High students...

  • May 31, 2005- "Students Eager for Early College" - Canton Repository - Eighth-grader Geoffrey McLendon wanted to be a McKinley Bulldog. His dad went to McKinley High School. His brother is a sophomore there. And the Lehman Middle School student wanted to play for McKinley’s golf...

2004

2003

  • December 21, 2003- "Brain Drain" Canton Repository - We applaud the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Stark Education Partnership and the Greater Akron Chamber of Commerce for attempting to tackle...
  • December 18, 2003 - "Group Seeks Answers to Why College Grads Exit State of Ohio" Canton Repository - Through a regional partnership, the Canton Regional and Greater Akron chambers of commerce and the Stark Education Partnership are seeking solutions to the “brain drain” of...

  • October 24, 2003 - "Ohio Education Needs Reform to Keep Grads Here" Canton Repository - Ohio has too few college graduates, experts say, and too few jobs for those who do finish college. As a result, despite fewer than average college grads, Ohio is an exporter of educated young people to...
  • August 24, 2003 -"Readers Have Many Questions About Proposed Changes at McKinley" Canton Repository- One of the big stories of last week was the plan by Canton City Schools to convert McKinley Senior High into the equivalent of five 400-student high schools within the...
  • August 21, 2003 -"McKinley Wins Grant for $1.52M" Canton Repository
    McKinley High School will become five smaller schools within a school next year, with the help of a $1.52 million grant from Cincinnati-based...
  • August 20, 2003 -"KnowledgeWorks Foundation Selects 6 High Schools for Transformation" (KnowledgeWorks) Six large high schools from six urban districts in Ohio will have the financial resources they need to implement their plans for smaller, more personalized and effective schools...
  • August 15, 2003 -"McKinley Aims High" Canton Repository
    The proposed restructuring of McKinley High School next year into five smaller schools will be an interesting experiment to watch. Each school...
  • August 14, 2003 -"$2.6M Grant May Help McKinley Form 5 Small Schools" Canton Repository - McKinley High School will essentially become five small high schools within the larger school next year if the district wins a $2.6 million grant from Cincinnati-based KnowledgeWorks Foundation. Canton City...
  • May 6, 2003 -"Author Tells Students About Horrors of Cambodia" Canton Repository - Loung Ung was 5 years old when the Khmer Rouge regime stormed into her hometown in Cambodia. It was April 17, 1975. Ung’s life changed forever...
  • April 11, 2003 -"Compton Receives Honor from Kent State" Canton Repository - Canton community activist and retired educator Paralee Compton recently received Kent State University’s 2003 President’s Award for Social Responsibility at the college’s 15th Annual Diversity...
  • March 10, 2003 -"Gov. Taft Announces Three New Ohio College Access Network Programs" OCAN - (Columbus) Making progress toward his goal of doubling college access programs for Ohio's youth by this fall, Governor Bob Taft recently announced the establishment of three new Ohio...

2002

  • November 19, 2002 -"Arrival of Education Standards Doesn't End Debate" Canton Repository - Our educational history has been marked with debates about who should be educated, what those who are educated should learn, and how what has been learned should be measured. The debates...
  • October 28, 2002 - "Look to Schools for Leadership" Canton Repository
    Sometimes the communities of Stark County seem hopelessly obsessed with the differences that can divide them rather than the similarities that can...
  • October 27, 2002 - "Honored Educators are Extraordinary..." Canton Repository - At Kent State University Stark Campus’ new conference center last Thursday, an absolutely uplifting event took place. Two public school educators, Brenda Neel of Canton City Schools and Richard Hull of...
  • October 25, 2002 - "Educators Seek Boost in College-Grad Rates..." Canton Repository - Only 18 percent of Stark County residents hold a bachelor's degree. Ohio ranks 41st out of 50 states in education level. And the cost is high: The average annual income for families whose wage...
  • September 8, 2002 - "Award Winners Have Ideas Worth Sharing" Canton Repository - Two Stark County educators whose efforts are having measurable success were given exceptionally generous awards by the Timken Foundation last week. Just as exciting as this remarkable gesture...
  • April 12, 2002 - "Crowd of 300 Offers Input on Improving Education" Canton Repository - State Superintendent Susan Tave Zelman and Canton Superintendent Dianne Talarico say they're listening. The two school leaders say they'll take seriously suggestions made by some 300 parents...

  • Press Release
    March 13, 2002 - "Former Fairless High School Principal Recognized"
    At its March meeting the Board of Directors of the Stark Education Partnership recognized Mr. Richard Hull, Curriculum Director, Fairless Local Schools for his accomplishments while Principal of Fairless High...

  • March 12, 2002 - "Canton City to Go After Share of $31M Grant" Canton Repository - Superintendent Dianne Talarico says Canton City Schools will seek some of the $31.5 million in grant money three private foundations have awarded to Ohio to improve urban education. You bet, said...
  • Press Release
    March 3, 2002 - "SEEDS Receives Local Recognition"
    At it’s February meeting, the Board of Directors of the Stark Education Partnership recognized Dr. Jane Hazen Dessecker, Director, Instructional Services at the Stark County Educational Service Center for her efforts...

  • February 28, 2002 - "State School Chief Invites Parents to Talk" Canton Repository - Parents and residents are invited to discuss their concerns about education when State Superintendent Susan Tave Zelman holds a...
  • February 28, 2002 - "Israeli Professors Speak on Causes of Terrorism" Canton Repository - Frustration. Political power. Religious fervor. Terrorism encompasses all these facets, say those in the know. On Wednesday, a panel of Israeli professors from Western Galilee College in Akko, Israel...
  • January 13, 2002 - "School Renaissance Under Way" Canton Repository
    The word “renaissance” means rebirth or revival, and hopefully that just could be what the Canton City School District is experiencing...


2001

  • Press Release
    November 19, 2001 - "Dr. John McGrath Joins Stark Education Partnership's Board of Directors" - The Board of Directors of Stark Education Partnership, Inc. is pleased to announce that Dr. John J. McGrath, President of Stark State College of Technology was appointed to the...

  • Press Release
    July 16, 2001 - "$56,000 Goes to Science Materials Center"
    The Board of the Stark Education Partnership has approved a $56,000 grant to the Stark County Education Service Center for investigating the feasibility of developing a science materials center for Stark County...

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