OH weather: School closings and delays in Northeast Ohio for Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021
Updated Feb 16, 2021;
CLEVELAND, Ohio A winter storm that has a potential to dump 8 to 12 inches on the Cleveland and Akron areas has resulted in dozens of Northeast Ohio school districts canceling or delaying classes for Tuesday.
Several major school districts made the decision to cancel Tuesday’s classes by Monday evening, including Akron City Schools, Avon and Avon Lake schools, Canton City Schools, East Cleveland City Schools, Elyria City Schools, Eulclid City Schools, Mentor Exempted Village School District, and Shaker Heights Schools, to name just a few. Some districts in the area are closing buildings but will have remote classes on Tuesday, including Cleveland Heights-University Heights Schools.
Fraud may be rampant among Ohio pandemic unemployment claims: Capitol Letter
Updated Jan 22, 2021;
Posted Jan 22, 2021
The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services homepage has a place for people to report fraudulent unemployment claims under their names. (Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.)
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False claims: More than half of Ohio’s 1.4 million Pandemic Unemployment Assistance claims (which total $7.8 billion in payments) have been flagged for fraud, Lt. Gov. Jon Husted said Thursday. As Jeremy Pelzer explains, one likely reason is that, until recently, PUA claims required far less documentation than filings for traditional unemployment benefits.
Compare Greater Cleveland, Akron property tax rates, and learn why they have changed this year: That’s Rich! Rich Exner, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio - New or increased taxes voters approved months ago are just now showing up in tax bills across the region, though for the most part the rates for the 2021 bills are up less than $100 a year per $100,000 of home value.
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The biggest exceptions are where voters approved sizable school levies during last year’s primary and general elections - the biggest of which were in Fairview Park, Euclid and Olmsted Falls.
On the flip side, rates are down across Geauga and Summit counties. But that’s at least a little deceiving. Geauga and Summit counties did their required once-every-three-year adjustment of property values during 2020. When property values go up, the rates for many of the individual taxes that make up the bill have to be reduced to collect about the same amount.
Teachers in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, walked out on strike December 2 for the first time since 1983. Why now? The state was trying to privatize public education. The local school board was trying to balance the budget on our backs. Add to that a once-in-a-century pandemic. A well-organized membership was determined not to bend to the pressure from all of the above. PUSH TO