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- As weird as the Princeton City Schools bus driver strike is (a subset of employees picketing a private company like it’s a public school district), the fixes being attempted by the district seem even weirder to me. These include random other contractors quickly “found” to take up some of the slack, the provision of these alternatives to a chosen subset of families contacted directly by the district (don’t call us, we’ll call you), and the 2020 flashbacks to paper homework packets and virtual assignments on Google Classroom. So fun. (WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, 10/5/26)
- Speaking of weird stuff, there’s also a gubernatorial race going on around here. In case you haven’t been paying attention, the Dispatch has got many thousands of words for you, rounding up the two major party candidates’ stands on a bunch of issues. For our purposes in these Bites, I will focus only on the K-12 education stuff and note that the piece links to two Fordham publications: Ohio By the Numbers 2026, and a 2024 blog post about third grade retention. Also fun. (Columbus Dispatch, 10/4/26)
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