- As with many others across Ohio, the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce staunchly backs Common Core. They held an event yesterday focusing on “the business case for the Common Core” to explain, again, why. (Dayton Daily News)
- Speaking of Common Core, here’s an interesting look at changes in teacher training programs in Ohio in the wake of adoption of Ohio’s New Learning Standards four years ago. (StateImpact Ohio)
- The PD takes on the question of whether there is too much testing in schools these days, checking in with the Council of Chief State School Officers and the Council of the Great City Schools for their take. (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Well that’s a turn up for the books. Board members at an Imagine charter school in Columbus agree with their detractors that their lease deal is a drag on the budget and have asked their landlord for a fix. Interesting. (Columbus Dispatch)
- I’m sure the terms “territory transfer” and “abolish the district” are required legal-ese in Ohio’s Byzantine system for school district mergers, but they seem to be unnecessary tripping points for folks in the proposed merger of the Cardinal and Ledgemont districts. The respective superintendents are supportive of the merger for a number of reasons, but they seem to be facing a tough sell. We’ve been following this story for almost a year now, and it will probably go on quite a bit longer, although the results of a levy request on the ballot in one of the districts in three weeks’ time may just tip the scales – one way or the other – toward an inevitable outcome. (Willoughby News-Herald)
