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- In case you may have forgotten, the big voucher groucher trial was initially scheduled to begin this week in a Franklin County court. It was recently pushed into 2025—exact date TBD—which has allowed at least one straggler district time to join the suit. The elected school board of tiny Poland Local Schools voted 4-1 to spend $2 of their per student state funding (about $3,400 per year, which the lone dissenter was certain could be put to more beneficial use for Poland’s students) to sue the state to end all voucher programs, but especially the EdChoice Scholarship Program. According to this piece, the main agitator testifying before the elected board last week actually said the delay was enacted partly “to give more districts a chance to sign on”. I am going to hope that the reporter misunderstood whatever the real comment was…because that would be a pretty egregious fib if uttered. (Vindy.com, 11/4/24)
- My wife and I have the
cool(no…)weird(hey!)quirky(closer) whimsical habit of visiting various power generation-related sites as vacation destinations. The list includes two nuclear power museums, a geothermal plant in Iceland, and Hoover Dam. We call them “power trips”. (Hilarious, right?!) So imagine how charmed I was to learn that the Gaseous Diffusion plant in Portsmouth, Ohio, hosts an event called Science Alliance every year for local high school students. Plant workers, college science faculty and students, and other tech-based employers are at the plant for a full day of fun, education, and opportunity for kids to learn about college and career pathways. Super awesome! There’s no list of invited/attending high schools given in this brief but awesome coverage, so I will pretend that charter and private school students were at least welcomed to be there and hope that several actually attended. If not, why not, energy execs? Science supervisors? Power proprietors? How about you share the power and the knowledge with everyone? (Chillicothe Gazette, 11/4/24)
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