- Fordham’s Chad Aldis appeared on WLW radio with host Scott Sloan yesterday morning, talking about the Common Core. (WLW-AM, Cincinnati)
- More radio for the nostalgia buffs out there. And more Common Core for the more modern reader. All Sides with Ann Fisher gave a full hour to Common Core yesterday, starting with Rep. Huffman and discussion of the latest legislative assault on Common Core in Ohio. The rest of the time included enlightening discussion of math instruction in the Common Core era as well as some in-the-trenches talk about finding the best curriculum materials. Interesting listen. (WOSU-FM, Columbus)
- Editors in Toledo opined on their expecations of the Ohio General Assembly during its lame duck session, now underway. Specifically, they advised legislators to avoid taking up the Common Core repeal bill in favor of more pressing and important issues. Probably something to do with ensuring safe drinking water for large cities on large lakes in the northern part of the state. (Toledo Blade)
- Editors in Cleveland opined in support of Ohio’s so-called “5 of 8” rule which prescribes certain staffing ratios for “support personnel” in schools and which has been recommended for removal by the state board of education. Perhaps you’ve heard about this issue? Maybe via social media? (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- I know loyal Gadfly Bites subscribers have heard all about the ongoing drama in the Monroe school district in regards to their long-mothballed old high school. Latest news: Monroe City Council – one of the recent rejected bidders for the property – has made a request to have a new assessment of the building undertaken in order to update the abatement/demolition cost estimates. Everyone had been working on the assumption that estimates provided in 2009 were still legit but at least one council member assumes that the property has degraded in the intervening 5 years. Why are those numbers so old? Because the district has been blocking the sale of the building to a local church group for at least that long. Story developing. (Middletown Journal-News)
