Amanda Beeman News Today

With severe storms earlier this spring fresh on the mind, the Columbus area battened down the hatches when severe storms were predicted Tuesday.

Olentangy H.S. Principal Robert Griffiths was placed on leave after an employee alleged he called her derogatory names 40-50 times.

Erika Beras, co-host of National Public Radio’s “Planet Money,” traveled to Shale Elementary School north of Columbus, Ohio, to visit the third-grade classroom of teacher Mandy Robek.

About a dozen parents and students protested with signs Monday in front of the Olentangy Local School District’s administrative office.

Mandy Robek had read only a few pages of Dr. Seusss "The Sneetches and Other Stories" when her third-graders began picking up on its themes.

After a student realized that 'The Sneetches' is a commentary on racism, the school district's PR department shut the reading down.

Among the first executive orders issued by newly sworn-in Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas is a directive not to use the term Latinx in any government documents.

Olentangy Local School District has seven copies of “The Sneetches” by Dr. Seuss in six elementary libraries, but none in school where podcast held.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises decided in 2021 to cease production of six of the authors titles but "The Sneetches" was not among them

An Olentangy Schools elementary teacher was reading a Dr. Seuss book as part of NPR’s "Plant Money" podcast when a school official halted the reading.