Ohio State School Board

After three years on Ohio’s state school board, Christina Collins of Medina has tendered her resignation, effective at the end of this year.

Efforts to roll back protections for LGBTQ+ students and trans youths are moving along two fronts in the state – as the Ohio Board of Education and the state legislature consider controversial proposals.

The executive committee of Ohio’s State School Board heard testimony on a controversial anti-discrimination resolution to oppose federal changes to Title IX rules and the effect on parental rights and LGBTQ issues.

The proposed resolution urges the state legislature to pass bills that prevent transgender students from using girls bathrooms and locker rooms, supports a lawsuit being waged by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost over federal non-discrimination rules and more.

The 19-member board will consider a resolution from one of its members that would reject new federal guidelines ordering investigation of claims of anti-LGBTQ bias or risk losing funding for food programs.

Ohio's state school board has asked the Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost to decide whether a resolution to "condemn racism and to advance equity and opportunity" for minority students went beyond the board's legal authority. We look at how controversy over critical race theory has taken over debate in the Ohio Board of Education.

The state school board has approved several graduation options for high school students in the class of 2022 and beyond. However board members say…

The state school board is expected to vote on new recommendations for high school graduation requirements Thursday. This comes as hundreds of student…