Bill revamps Ohio teacher evaluations (The Columbus Dispatch): State Senate Bill 229 has moved past committee and is on track to be passed into law in the coming week. This bill will make some minor but important changes to required teacher evaluations.
U.S. Achievement Stalls as Other Nations Make Gains (Education Week): The latest PISA results show that U.S. academic performance has remained stagnant as a whole while other countries have seen gains since the last assessment in 2009.
Education Notes: Bill Would Put Medicaid Savings In Straight A Fund
(Gongwer): Proposed legislation would use savings from Medicaid expansion to reinvest in education through the Straight A Fund.
Greater Cleveland continues to shed more jobs than any big city metro area in the nation (Cleveland.com): Over the past year Cleveland has seen a job loss of 0.8, though the northeast Ohio region has observed growth in its other large cities.
Russia Aims to Close Supercomputing Gap (HPC Wire): Russia’s recently help National Supercomputing Forum points to the country’s ambition to develop their own supercomputing systems to be able to compete on a global scale.
