City of Kent
Kent City Council
Kent City Council passed an ordinance to rezone a three acre parcel located at 200 West Williams St. in Downtown Kent. The zone was originally labeled as an “industrial zone” but two weeks prior to the April 17th City Council meeting Tom Meyers and his committed proposed the three acres be rezoned to “commercial-downtown (C-D.)” Meyers has 15 acres of land on Williams St. but is only rezoning the three acres. “Although this parcel has had railroad tracks run through it over the years, it has never had any serious use as an industrial piece of property. In fact, it was probably zoned that way because an industrial operation owned
Higher Education
Ohio districts respond to “Prepared for Success” grades
The Ohio school report cards are designed to give parents, educators and policymakers information about the performances of districts and schools and celebrate success. So when most Ohio schools received poor grades in the “Prepared for Success” category, there wasn’t much to celebrate. Without a requirement from the federal government, the Ohio Department of Education has created the “Prepared for Success” category to the school report card. The 2018 report cards revealed that just nine of 608 school districts in Ohio received an A in the “Prepared for Success” section. Out of the 608 districts, 520 of them received either a D or an F, implying that Ohio students are
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Ravenna School District Targets Safety
As Christmas break comes to an end, one local school district re-focuses their attention on insuring their student’s safety. According to the Superintendent of the Ravenna City School District, Dennis Honkala, student safety is their top priority. School safety issues seem to be in the news now more than ever. In an article on CNN’s website, the writer tracks the number of school shootings from 2009 to 2018. Over those ten years there was a total of 356 victims over 180 school shootings. That number equals one school shooting every 20.28 days. Ravenna schools have many initiatives in place to give their students and faculty a safe environment to learn
