Jill Kelley
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Reporter covering K-12 education news for Centerville, Beavercreek, Kettering, Springboro, Lebanon, Miamisburg, Xenia, West Carrollton, Bellbrook-Sugarcreek, Oakwood, Valley View, Wayne, New Lebanon, Cedar Cliff and Greeneview school districts, as well as other schools in the south and east areas of Dayton, and myriad education topics.
I grew up near Sacramento, California, and earned my bachelor’s degree in English at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
I have lived in the Dayton area since 1995.
Latest from Jill Kelley
GED test, cost to change in 2014
Impending changes to the General Educational Development test, or GED, make 2013 an important year for students who want to pass the exam and achieve his or her Ohio High School Equivalence Diploma.In 2014, the content, method and cost of the nationally standardized test will change for the first time ...
Ranking brings school funding model under scrutiny
Ohio recently was ranked 17th in the nation for its school finance, despite the fact that Ohio’s school funding model has been declared unconstitutional three times since 1997.The ranking, coming just weeks before Gov. John Kasich plans to reveal a new school funding model, was part of an Education Week ...
600 apply for gun training
Hundreds of Ohio school officials have signed up for the free Armed Teacher Training Program offered in the wake of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., in December.“There have been over 600 applicants overall, and by now it might be over 600 from Ohio,” Jim Irvine, ...
Local schools outperform state on report cards
Students in traditional public schools across the Miami Valley outperformed their counterparts across the state in both performance index and ratings, according to a newspaper analysis of 2011-12 preliminary report card data. A list of each county's report card can be found at the bottom of this story or you ...
Lots of days to celebrate in 2013
For the fourth straight year, this newspaper has compiled a list of the unofficial names for each day on the calendar. The names of these days are sometimes deemed “national” or “world” days, but most are culled from a variety of sources — websites, calendars, book publishers, education publications, health ...
Ohio attorney general says school employees will be trained on dealing with shooters
First-responder safety training will be offered to teachers and school workers statewide, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced Wednesday in a response to the mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., last week and Chardon, Ohio, earlier this year. “The reality is that, with an active shooter, first responders many times do ...
Most school safety plans in state compliance
Seven local schools have not complied with a state law that requires them to file safety plans and school blueprints with the attorney general’s office, despite a reminder issued after 26 people were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.“After the shooting that occurred earlier this year in ...
Schools strive for normalcy in wake of tragedy
Schools in the Miami Valley flew flags at half-staff and had school and law enforcement officials on hand to help children and parents Monday, the first day back to school for students across the country after the tragedy in Newtown, Conn.,“I have been out to all the buildings today, just ...
Local scores lower than state, higher than U.S.
Students at Miami Valley school districts scored slightly below the state average but solidly above the national mark on both the ACT and SAT, according to data for 2012.According to a study of Ohio Department of Education data from the 2011-12 report card, graduating seniors from the nine-county region averaged ...
No jackpot for Ohio schools
Ohio schools do not experience a windfall from state lottery sales and record jackpots, such as the Mega Millions in March and Wednesday’s Powerball drawing, despite 11 straight years of increased sales.Ohio voters in 1987 approved a constitutional amendment to permanently earmark lottery profits for education. Lawmakers created the Lottery ...
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