Columbus City Schools

20 CCS Schools To Start Year Online, Due To High Heat

By Alison Holm • Aug 24, 2021

20 Columbus City Schools are starting the school year with remote learning Thursday, because of the extreme heat and humidity.

Columbus City Schools Will Hold In-Person High School Graduations

By Alison Holm • May 6, 2021

Columbus City Schools will hold in-person high school graduation ceremonies June 2nd through the 5th.

Union Calls For School Board Member's Resignation After Social Media Post

By Alison Holm • Mar 9, 2021

The Columbus City Schools' teachers union is calling on board member James Ragland to step down following what it calls an "inappropriate and misogynistic" social media post.

Columbus City Schools Remaining Students Will Start to Return March 15th

By Alison Holm • Feb 25, 2021

Columbus City Schools will begin returning more students to schools March 15.

Staff And Bus Driver Shortages Will Keep CCS From Reopening By March 1

By Alison Holm • Feb 17, 2021

At Tuesday's coronavirus press conference Ohio Governor Mike DeWine called out several school districts including Columbus City Schools, that aren't on track to have all students back in school at least part time by March 1rst. At Tuesday evening's school board meeting officials say there's solid and systemic reasons why that won't happen. Alison Holm has more.

Some Ohio Schools Say They Won't Reopen March 1st

By Alison Holm • Feb 12, 2021

Some schools in Ohio say they won’t reopen for in-person learning by March 1st, despite superintendents having made a commitment to do so, in exchange for priority COVID-19 vaccinations.

Three CCS Elementary Schools Return Online Due To Staff Shortage

By Alison Holm • Feb 9, 2021

Barely a week after Columbus City Schools began to welcome some students back to the classrooms, three elementary schools returned to online instruction.

Some CCS Students To Return To Classroom February 1

By Alison Holm • Jan 13, 2021

Columbus City Schools will begin the return to hybrid learning as scheduled on February 1, starting with vocational tech and the district's youngest students.

Columbus Schools Extend Suspension Of In-Person Athletic And Extracurricular Activities

By Jim Letizia • Jan 6, 2021

Columbus City Schools have extended the suspension of all in-person athletic and extracurricular activities through at least January 23.

Columbus Schools Under Remote Learning Model Through January

By Jim Letizia • Dec 19, 2020

The Columbus City Schools will operate under a remote learning model through the end of January.

CCS Returns To Remote Instruction, Continues To Provide Meals

By Alison Holm • Nov 19, 2020

Columbus City Schools are returning to online-only learning Monday, as Franklin County goes under a stay-at-home advisory until December 18th.

Columbus Schools Boosting Pay For Substitute Teachers

By Alison Holm • Nov 6, 2020

The Columbus Board of Education this week unanimously approved pay raises for substitute teachers, amid a widespread shortage.

City To Announce More Learning Extension Centers For Students

By Alison Holm • Oct 28, 2020

Thursday morning the City of Columbus will announce the opening of Learning Extension Centers around the city, where students can get reliable internet, meals and some of the wraparound services they would normally get in school.

Columbus City Schools Delay Return To In-Person Classes

By Alison Holm • Oct 12, 2020

Columbus City Schools have pushed back students return to the classrooms by at least two weeks, according to a communique released this morning.

CCS Preparing to Return (Some) Students To Classrooms

By Alison Holm • Sep 29, 2020

As the coronavirus positivity rate in Columbus continues to improve, Columbus City Schools are getting ready to reopen buildings for at least some of their students.

Columbus Police Snub CCS Game Night Security Requests

By Jim Letizia • Sep 22, 2020

The Columbus City Schools are having trouble finding enough security guards to work high school football games.

Federal Grant Will Help Expand Health Education And Services In Columbus Schools

By Alison Holm • Sep 11, 2020

Children's Hospital in Columbus will use a 2.5 million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to set up an addtional school-based health clinic for Columbus City School students and expand a reproductive health education pilot program launched last year.

Columbus Expands Fall Programs And Activities

By Mike Foley • Aug 31, 2020

Columbus officials today announced an upcoming expansion of fall programs offered by the Recreation and Parks Department.

CCS Administrator Who Also Held Job With Philadelphia Schools Resigns

By Alison Holm & Jim Letizia • Aug 25, 2020

The Columbus City Schools' chief academic officer has resigned, after district officials learned from a Pennsylvania radio report that she simultaneously held a similar position for the Philadelphia school district.

CCS Administrator Placed On Leave

By Jim Letizia • Aug 21, 2020

Columbus City Schools have placed chief academic officer Tracy Ocasio on paid administrative leave pending a review after officials learned from a Pennsylvania radio report that she had been working for the School District of Philadelphia.

Columbus City Schools Suspend Athletics, Extracurricular Activities

By Mike Foley • Aug 13, 2020

Columbus City Schools today announced the suspension of all in-person interscholastic athletics and extracurricular activities in order to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. The district says the suspension takes effect Friday, August 14.

"I Just Feel So Powerless": Tyler Buchanan on Reopening Ohio's Schools

By Dan Skinner & WCBE Podcast Experience • Aug 4, 2020

Dan Skinner talks with Tyler Buchanan about the frustrations and anxieties that teachers in Ohio are working through as we approach the opening - in different forms - of Ohio's schools.

Read Tyler's reporting on the subject here.

Read all of Tyler's reporting in the Ohio Capital Journal here.