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The Toledo and Youngstown school districts are considering cutting staff positions to save money next year. Administrators at the Toledo Public Schools have suggested cutting 147 art, music and physical education teachers, the Toledo Blade reports. The Vindicator reports that the Youngstown City Schools are looking at smaller cuts, hoping to eliminate four administrative positions and 14 teaching positions.
State Superintendent Deborah Delisle responded to criticisms that Ohio’s Race to the Top proposal devotes too much money to communications earlier this week, Columbus Dispatch reporter Catherine Candisky notes on the paper’s politics blog.
The reporters who write Education Week’s Politics K-12 blog have been on the lookout for progress in the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the federal law which outlines goals, initiatives and consequences for schools and districts. The official draft has not been released yet, but this blog post pulls together some of the components the reporters expect to see in the announcement.

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