http://www.otterbein.edu/public/Academics/Departments/Education.aspx — “Otterbein University offers program to prepare teachers for Early Childhood (Pre-K through grade 3), Middle Childhood (grades 4-9), and Secondary (adolescent/young adult, grades 7-12) settings. Our students can be licensed to teach Integrated Language Arts, Integrated Social Studies, Integrated Mathematics, Life Science, Chemistry, and Physics at the 7-12 grade levels. In certain areas, including Music, Art, Spanish, and Health and Physical Education, students are licensed to teach from Pre-K through grade 12.”
“Otterbein has only one tuition rate, and offers no discount for students who are in-state residents. For the 2010-2011 school year, tuition was set at $28,413, with room and board at $3,996 and $3,891, respectively. Otterbein also distributes more than $17 million in financial aid annually, in the form of grants, student loans, scholarships, and their work-study program.”
http://www2.ohio-votes.com/news/2011/jan/26/kasich-administration-no-help-school-districts-dec-ar-497690/ — It’s premature to discuss details at this point, but we’re clearly facing some tough challenges that we’re going to work to address to help create a sustainable, job-creating environment that lifts all boats statewide and provides the resources for education and every other important priority for Ohio,” Kasich’s spokespoerso Nichols said.
http://www2.ohio-votes.com/news/2011/aug/02/state-looks-education-funding-voters-face-levies-a-ar-657990/ — Kasich, who looks favorably on school choice and charter schools, promised to look for new ways of funding education and he has said he believes most districts are top heavy in administration and can find ways to be more efficient.
http://www2.ohio-votes.com/member-center/share-this/print/?content=ar674915 — Westerville First To Ask Voters For Combined Property, Income Tax Levy — “local school districts are dealing with cuts in state funding and declining property values, and many will have no choice. . . The proposed levy calls for a half-percent earned income tax that excludes Social Security and retirement income, and a 4-mil property tax.”
http://www2.ohio-votes.com/member-center/share-this/print/?content=ar828352 — Westerville Teachers Speak Out About Levy, 11-17-2011 — “”We are showing their gross salaries and the 35 percent that they receive in benefits,” said Mary Medors with Taxpayers for Westerville Schools.”
http://www2.ohio-votes.com/member-center/share-this/print/?content=ar806762 — 11 Days Until Election Day, Debate Over School Levy Heating Up —
“Westerville City Schools is seeking a combination property and earned income tax. The property tax is set at 4.06 mills and would cost the owner of land valued at $100,000 $124.34 annually. The earned income tax portion is 0.5 percent. Someone earning $50,000 a year would pay $250.”
“Ohio schools rank overall in the bottom ten for putting dollars in the classroom, in the top ten in terms of putting dollars into overhead, administration and red tape,” Kasich said.
Mitt Romney stopped by at Ohio’s Otterbein University yesterday to tey to do some fishing for college-aged votes. Reports are that he was underwhelming, even for Romney wherre expectations are basement level.
Otterbein grads may have trouble finding work in the Westerville school district
By EVAN MATSUMOTO | Otterbein360, Updated: 04/24/12 4:34pm
Soon-to-be Otterbein graduates may have trouble finding work in the Westerville school district after it was announced that 71 district employees will likely be out of a job.
As part of a budget-balancing act that the district needs to deal with after passing a small levy on March 10, some employees may find themselves looking for positions in other districts at the start of the 2012-2013 school year.
The 71 employees fulfill the equivalent of 65 full-time positions.
Names on the Reduction in Force list, or RIF list, are not set in stone, however. Positions that are not currently occupied are also being cut, which is why a name doesn’t appear on the list for that position.
Art, music and physical education were hit the hardest, losing 53 positions across all grade levels.
Volunteers are forming plans to keep programs like marching band in the schools.
