- OK. I was sure when I first read this story about the great report card received by the Vantage Joint Vocational School in Paulding County that these dudes were straight trippin’. Talking about all the As and Bs they got and not five or four stars like everyone else. Turns out, it was me who was trippin’. Apparently the switch to star ratings either bypassed JVSD report cards entirely or will be phased in at a later date. So, with that all straightened out, unreserved kudos to Vantage staff and students and I apologize for ever doubting you. Sounds like a terrific option up there. (Paulding Progress, 10/7/22) Speaking of schools of choice (were we?), here’s another school discussing their great report card, and how behind all those grades are young people who have been helped. We even heard from several of those students. I appreciated the point that these were students who had been ill-served by previous schools or whose personal situations made a traditional school a bad fit. I would have appreciated it more if the piece had pointed out this was a charter school, but you can’t have everything I suppose. (Zanesville Times-Recorder, 9/28/22)
- The answer to the question posed in this headline is not answered within the text. Honestly, it’s barely addressed. Instead, we get a heartbreaking litany of transportation failures for charter school families that have been going on every day for months now with no end in sight and barely even a coherent explanation as to why Columbus City Schools cannot get a handle on it. I will save you all the trouble of digging into the ORC and tell you that the answer to the question, like it or not, is yes. (Columbus Dispatch, 10/10/22)
