- Call it the Ghost of Gatehouse Past. A story from several weeks ago—regarding some recent education research and including a vintage quote from our own Jessica Poiner—resurfaced over the weekend in a number of Gatehouse Media publications. (Alliance Review, 10/20/19)
- Oh look. It’s yet another suburban teen entrepreneur. Those lucky prisoners. (Canton Repository, 10/18/19)
- Speaking of money, a bunch of public and private schools across the country got burned to the tune of more than $10 million when a third party ticket sales and services firm went bust recently. This includes a number of district and Catholic schools here in central Ohio. (Columbus Dispatch, 10/20/19)
- Still speaking of money (honestly, when are we not?), Monroe Local Schools in Butler County has been out of state fiscal oversight for about five years. I can only imagine it went the same way as most of these things do. But today the district’s got that new shine of creditworthiness thanks to a bond rating bump, and now they’re ready to borrow and spend like nothing ever happened. Let the good times roll! (The Journal-News, 10/19/19)
- Plain Local Schools has voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against the state to try and stop the enactment of a new law which is aimed at making it easier for families wanting to rezone their property to another school district to do so. Not because they don’t still hate it, but because they’d rather wait and fight later when those families (you know who you are) do actually make a request to rezone. And yes, this is about money too. (Canton Repository, 10/21/19)
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