Latest reporting from the Education desk.
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Upper Arlington Schools announced a three-year partnership with the JED Foundation and AASA to audit and strengthen its student mental health and suicide prevention systems across all 10 schools.
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Upper Arlington High School Principal Tom Lombardi, a 2006 graduate, traces his path from student to school leader in a new district profile, crediting a senior-year English assignment with launching his education career.
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Upper Arlington's Jones and Hastings middle schools have started a peer-mentor program pairing seventh- and eighth-graders with incoming sixth-graders, beginning with a dedicated orientation day before the full student body arrives.
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Upper Arlington Schools kicks off the third year of its Coffee & Conversation series with two sessions focused on Issue 7, the combined operating levy and $273.5 million bond issue on the Nov. 3 ballot.
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Upper Arlington Schools named Hastings Middle School science teacher Elizabeth Blank its 2026 District Teacher of the Year at the Aug. 10 Convocation, honoring dozens of staff across teaching, classified, administrative and service-milestone categories.
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Upper Arlington High School will dedicate the Hope Garden on Sept. 4, a community-funded memorial space honoring Sam Short and other students lost during their school years.
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Upper Arlington Schools confirmed a staggered reopening beginning Monday, Aug. 17, after Aug. 11 storms knocked out power to buildings and left neighborhoods impassable, with Hastings and Jones middle schools serving as charging centers in the meantime.
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The Grandview Heights Board of Education convenes its August regular meeting Wednesday evening at Larson Middle School, with finance reports and a public hearing on federal grant spending for the 2026-27 school year on the agenda.
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Superintendent Dr. Bob Hunt used the city's "Won't You Be Our Neighbor" podcast to explain what the combined $273.5 million bond issue and 4.9-mill operating levy on the Nov. 3 ballot would mean for Hastings, Jones and Burbank schools.
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Grandview Heights Schools will hold a public hearing Wednesday, Aug. 12, at 7 p.m. at Larson Middle School to gather community input on how the district plans to spend its federal Title I, Title II-A and IDEA Part B grant funds for the 2026-27 school year.
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The Upper Arlington Board of Education completed the process to place a $273.5 million bond issue and 4.9-mill operating levy on the Nov. 3 ballot, with the combined measures adding about $1,250 a year in taxes on a $500,000 home to rebuild Hastings and Jones middle schools and Burbank Early Childhood School.
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