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The Ohio House has scheduled a vote to let school districts set their own training requirements for employees they choose to arm. The measure aims to undo the effect of an Ohio Supreme Court ruling earlier this year, which held that under current law armed school workers would need hundreds of hours of training.

The full Ohio House will vote on a Republican-backed bill that would allow teachers and staff to carry guns in school with the eight hours of training they receive with their concealed carry permit, and not more thorough training as currently required by law.

Even before the pandemic, demand for teachers exceeded supply in the nation’s public schools by more than 100,000. We look at what’s keeping would-be teachers out of the classroom and causing current educators to consider leaving the profession.

Even before the pandemic, demand for teachers exceeded supply in the nation’s public schools by more than 100,000. We look at what’s keeping would-be teachers out of the classroom and causing current educators to consider leaving the profession.

Even before the pandemic, demand for teachers exceeded supply in the nation’s public schools by more than 100,000. We look at what’s keeping would-be teachers out of the classroom and causing current educators to consider leaving the profession.

Substitute teachers have been a scarce resource in Central Ohio for years, and the pandemic just worsened the understaffing. Some districts have been…

Michelle Karim teaches math at Beachwood Middle School in Cuyahoga County. Under the school’s hybrid model, she’s scrambling to keep pace with past years.…

Updated: 1:15 p.m., Tuesday, March 9, 2021 Cleveland Metropolitan School District teachers with the will head back to their classrooms starting Wednesday, according to a joint statement from CMSD and the Cleveland Teacher’s Union. District CEO Eric Gordon said the district was able to address remaining pandemic-related health and safety concerns raised by the CTU about returning to in-person teaching.

Biden's new Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says "it is our shared goal to reopen schools safely and quickly."

President Biden moves his timeline up by two months while directing all 50 states and the District of Columbia to move school workers up in line for vaccinations, beginning next week.