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The University of Cincinnati will change the names of four spaces on campus bearing the name of Charles McMicken, an enslaver and the university's main sponsor in the 1800s.
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A group of parents and students have filed a lawsuit in federal court in the ongoing fight over what teachers in the Forest Hills School District are and aren't allowed to teach.
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IDEA Public Schools is opening two schools in Cincinnati. One is in East Price Hill. The other is in Woodlawn.
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The Cincinnati Public Schools Board of Education is set to vote on the 2023 fiscal year budget next Monday. The district's five-year budget forecast targeted $613 million for fiscal year 2023; the budget draft presented Wednesday is $608.6 million.
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According to Board Policy 7217, the only individuals allowed to carry firearms within CPS are Cincinnati Police officers and other law enforcement personnel.
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Administrators are reexamining the designs of school buildings to protect students from an active shooter. "How are we gonna design these schools to where we can educate children and they’re pleasant places to be in where a child doesn’t think, ‘Gosh I go to prison every day,' " says one security consultant.
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A similar Florida law mandates 12 hours of diversity training before firearm approval. But Ohio lawmakers say they didn’t consider bias "whatsoever."
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Crossing guards in Cincinnati will see pay increases from $11 per hour to $15 per hour. Roughly 150 crossing guards are employed by the city, but are paid for by Cincinnati Public Schools. Toward the end of the 2021-22 school year, there were 44 vacancies, roughly a third of the total positions.
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The Ohio Department of Higher Education has given Cincinnati State, Sinclair and three other community colleges permission to offer a B.S. in nursing. The permission couldn’t come at a better time, as nursing shortages continue to increase. Locally, there is more than a 13% shortage.
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Proponents say a union will give them more of a voice in how the school is run.