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Columbus charter schools win awards; innovation underway

Jeff Murray
7.22.2014
  • Battelle has granted KIPP: Columbus $300,000 to develop a STEM teaching fellowship program. The program will pair new teachers at KIPP with mentor educators, who will provide support in STEM instruction. Congratulations!
  • Congratulations also to United Schools Network’s Kathryn Anstaett, the founding director of Columbus Collegiate Academy–West (a charter school that Fordham authorizes). She has received the 2014 Excellent Schools Network’s Instructional Leadership Award.
  • The second round winners of Ohio’s Straight-A Fund innovation grants are to be finalized on July 28. Some of those winners are already putting their projects into action, including this interesting DigiLit project in Cleveland Heights-University Heights City Schools to bring STEM education to special-needs students.
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Tags: Columbus KIPP Ohio Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Jeff Murray is a lifelong resident of central Ohio. He previously worked at School Choice Ohio and the Greater Columbus Arts Council. He has two degrees from the Ohio State University and lives in the Clintonville neighborhood with his wife.

He is proud every day to support the Fordham mission to help make excellent education options more…

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