- We start the week with another update on Columbus City Schools’ upcoming surplus property auction. Among the buildings up for sale is the former Africentric School building (likely worth a pittance) and the land on which it sits (worth a ton, it seems, because of its proximity to resurgent Downtown and ever-tony German Village). Reporter Bill Bush takes pains to note that the Africentric property was pitched to charter schools first, but the $15 million appraisal was too steep for those operators to consider. Auction is planned for tomorrow. (Columbus Dispatch, 11/24/17)
- Speaking of money, we told you some time ago about the somewhat clunky efforts to reach out to Toledo Public Schools alums in order to
connect them with the current Toledo school communityshake them down for money. Here is an update on the TPS Foundation, the non-profit support organization which will be the beneficiary of whatever amount alums can shake loose. So far, they’ve managed to get enough money to hire an executive director, who has elaborate plans for what she wants to spend money on. Hmmm… That seems to be a common theme at TPS. (Toledo Blade, 11/23/17)
- Small-town Ohio is where we find two different stories about dirt-under-the-fingernails career tech education success stories for female high school students. First up, a look at the young women currently learning metal fabrication, EMT skills, accounting, and electrical construction at EHOVE Career Center in Milan, Ohio (birthplace of Thomas Edison). (Norwalk Reflector, 11/26/17) In that piece, the juxtaposition of fancy dresses and oily dungarees is something of a benign joke. But in this piece – which is, admittedly, about the more serious topic of foster care and adoption – there’s no joke. The young woman in question is as serious about the automotive repair classes at which she excelled in the Knox County Career Center as she is about her work to break into modeling far from the big city. Awesome. (Columbus Dispatch, 11/26/17) But it’s not all sunshine and roses when it comes to CTE. Tiny Wellington Village Schools in Lorain County had to reprint their entire 2016-17 yearbook when it turned out that all the students in grades 9 – 11 who attended the joint vocational school were accidentally omitted from the first version. Oops. (Elyria Chronicle, 11/22/17)
- Sticking to Lorain County to end the day’s clips, you can “enjoy the open road” and “experience the countryside” as a substitute bus driver in any of several Lorain County school districts, according to a press release sent out by, you guessed it, the superintendent of Wellington Village Schools. The need is great, we promise to include your photo in the staff newsletter, and the job fair is this Thursday! (Northern Ohio Morning Journal, 11/25/17)
