Barberton School Board members recognized several students for their achievements this school year:

With the passage of an 8.45-mill levy Tuesday, Barberton schools enjoyed a favorable outcome at the polls.

BARBERTON, Ohio — Kiwanis, through guidance and example, works to develop future generations of leaders.

Mogadore, Cuyahoga Falls, Akron and Barberton schools have more in common than interconnecting county highways. Each community has a school district that buses fewer than one in four students and receives only a small fraction in state money to do so.

All but two of the 15 school districts in the five-county Akron-Canton area with an issue on the May 7 ballot are proposing tax hikes for homeowners — a request that’s increasingly frequent as superintendents express concerns over declining state aid and costly mandates.

BARBERTON: Residents will see only one issue on Tuesday’s election ballot—a five-year, 8.45 mill school levy that will generate an estimated $3 million per year beginning in 2014.

BARBERTON: Barberton High School students flaunted makeshift togas, crowns and swords to perform Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”Wednesday morning, the last assignmentto their semester-long English class with University of Akron students.

Part-time faculty at the University of Akron will hold a rally Wednesday to protest the school’s decision to restrict the number of hours they can teach.

BARBERTON: Friday morning, Barberton students took social studies instruction from a panel of foreigners who injected life into lessons through humbling and poignant tales of their childhood and home.

Public officials said Thursday that Stark State College will begin offering adult education classes at Akron schools next fall.

BARBERTON: The Board of Education took a proactive step back from Gov. John Kasich’s school funding plan when members unanimously passed a resolution opposing House Bill 59, which will increase the number of publicly funded vouchers for students to attend private or parochial schools.

Part-time faculty at the University of Akron are among those launching a statewide association to help boost adjunct pay and benefits.

BARBERTON: The school district’s $3 million, 8.45-mill levy will be Issue 3 on the May 7 ballot, as announced at the Board of Education meeting Wednesday night.