Health costs jump 11.5% for Columbus city employees and other top stories.

• Health costs jump 11.5% for Columbus city employees

  

  Health-care costs for Columbus city employees have increased 11.5 percent this year, the largest yearly increase in insurance costs shared by workers and taxpayers in nearly a decade.The Columbus City Council approved spending $177.2 million at its meeting on Monday to provide medical, dental, vision, prescription-drug and other coverage to its nearly 8,200 employees this year.Taxpayers will fund about $107 million of those insurance costs from the city’s proposed 2016 operating budget. The..

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• Education Insider: Judge halts suits by head of shutdown Columbus ...

  

  The legal case against Andre Tucker might be the poster child for what’s wrong with Ohio’s charter-school system.You might recall that Tucker, who managed to create three Columbus charter schools and quickly run them into the ground, wassentenced in November to five years on probationand ordered to repay $7,500 that he stole from two of his schools.Last week, another Franklin County judge found him to be a “vexatious litigator,” banning him from filing lawsuits in Ohio without court permiss..

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