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06/30/11 The Toledo Federation of Teachers and the Toledo Public Schools School Board almost unanimously approved a fact finder's report Tuesday.
06/30/11 COLUMBUS -- Toledo Public Schools' Woodward High School will share in a total of $16.2 million in grants announced Wednesday as part of President Obama's Race to the Top program.
03/15/11 The superintendent and school board of Toledo Public Schools say their estimates on cuts were pretty much right on--TPS will lose millions of dollars.
02/10/11 BLADE STAFF League wrestling tournaments take center stage on Saturday. The City League tournament will be vastly different than past years with more than half of the league's school's having dropped the sport. With the closure of Libbey last June, and the remaining Toledo Public Schools teams (Bowsher, Rogers, Scott, Start, Waite and Woodward) having eliminated wrestling as part of budget cuts ...
01/12/11 BLADE STAFF A former Toledo Police sergeant who acknowledged double billing the department and Toledo Public Schools for work done during the same hours will spend 60 days on house arrest. Ova E. Tate, Jr., 55, was sentenced in Lucas County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday to one year probation, including 60 days house arrest on electronic monitoring, and a $1,000 fine. Judge James Jensen also ...
01/09/11 By MARK ZABORNEY BLADE STAFF WRITER Remarks by a radio talk show host that were considered insensitive to African-American students in the Toledo Public Schools reverberated throughout the community Saturday. "It made my blood boil. I'm very offended by his comments," said Christine Varwig, a board member of the Toledo Parent Congress. The Parent Congress has called a news conference for 2 p.m ...
01/08/11 BY TOM TROY BLADE POLITICS WRITER A radio talk show host's reference to "little monkeys" while talking about students at Toledo Public Schools on Friday generated outrage that the language was insensitive to African-American students, and all students. The host of WSPD-AM, 1370's Brian Wilson and the Afternoon Drive, said the city's school system fails to teach students to think or be ...
01/08/11 BY TOM TROY BLADE POLITICS WRITER A radio talk show host's reference to "little monkeys" while talking about students at Toledo Public Schools on Friday generated outrage that the language was insensitive to African-American students, and all students. The host of WSPD-AM, 1370's Brian Wilson and the Afternoon Drive, said the city's school system fails to teach students to think or be ...
12/14/10 Resource officers in the Toledo Public Schools will be pulled after this week because the district cannot provide half the funding.
12/13/10 BLADE NEWS SERVICES UPDATE: Toledo Catholic and Toledo Public Schools are have no delays. Adrian Public Schools, Bedford Schools, Monroe Headstart, Monroe Parochial Schools, Napoleon Schools, Otsego Schools, and Tecumseh Public Schools are closed today. For more school delays and closings, CLICK HERE: School delays and closures Dec. 13, 2010 A powerful, gusty storm dumped mounds of snow across ...
11/22/10 A 17-year-old Start High School student said a Toledo Public Schools substitute teacher put him in a sleeper hold until he became unconscious during an alleged incident Nov. 2.
11/21/10 Longtime Toledo Public Schools educator and former coach Leroy Bates recently was inducted into the Toledo City League Athletic Hall of Fame. Bates taught and coached for more than 30 years, including 16 as boys basketball coach at Libbey. The Cowboys reached the state tournament in 2000 and 2008, the latter ending in a heartbreaking 70-69 overtime loss to Chillicothe in the final. Bates retired ...
11/20/10 By CHRISTOPHER D. KIRKPATRICK BLADE STAFF WRITER Toledo Public Schools could use renovated Scott High School as the new home for the district's central administration offices and for several specialized high schools, including Toledo Technology Academy, according to school board President Bob Vasquez. That might allow the district to close its aging Manhattan Boulevard administration building ...
11/12/10 By IGNAZIO MESSINA BLADE STAFF WRITER After a year of apparent talks with the state education department, Toledo Public Schools plans to sue in an attempt to collect $12.6 million it says Ohio shortchanged the district over three years. Treasurer Dan Romano Thursday said the school system will go to court and fight for money he said was incorrectly withheld from the district's state education ...
11/03/10 Levies failed in Tuesday's election for Toledo Public Schools, Oregon, Rossford, Springfield and Sylvania.
10/14/10 A team of University of Toledo financial experts will review Toledo Public Schools' budget forecast.
09/22/10 By IGNAZIO MESSINA BLADE STAFF WRITER The city of Toledo will pay the bill for 11 police officers through the end of 2010 to be assigned to Toledo Public Schools in hopes that voters will pass a tax levy in November and allow the district to afford half of the bill. TPS is seeking a 7.8-mill property tax that would be the largest new-money levy ever approved for the district. "It would be a ...
09/07/10 Toledo Public Schools appears to be under fire once again for a letter sent to businesses seeking campaign cash.
09/01/10 By MARK ZABORNEY BLADE STAFF WRITER Robert A. Standriff, 79, a Toledo Public Schools teacher and administrator who in retirement continued to help children through the Old Newsboys Goodfellow Association, died Sunday in the Manor at Perryburg. Mr. Standriff of South Toledo learned he had cancer six months ago. Still, he made sure he honored his annual commitment in July as volunteer captain at ...
09/01/10 By CHRISTOPHER D. KIRKPATRICK BLADE STAFF WRITER Toledo Public Schools officials have stitched together various sources of federal money to return bus service to some of the 5,000 students left stranded by local budget cuts. Lucas County Commissioners gave TPS $500,000 in federal money Tuesday for a TARTA contract to serve about 1,700 students at four specific schools. The money will come from ...
08/27/10 Springfield Twp. is celebrating their ranking and Toledo Public Schools continues to make progress. | 
