- Career-themed schools are still a thing in Toledo City School District, including what we’ll call ProMedica High, a medical-themed program supported heavily by the aforementioned health system, which will open its hermetically sealed doors for the first time this fall. And while I’m happy that the young man interviewed is excited about what might lie ahead for him there, let us remind ourselves that a) kid is talking about medical school/being a doctor while the system will be hyping porter and radiography tech just as heavily, and b) every district doing this career immersion thing guarantees no jobs or postsecondary readiness for any student. And I am still skeptical of them all for these reasons. (WTOL-TV, Toledo, 1/19/22)
- Take THAT, charter school kids! Dayton City Schools is using more than $10 million it got back from the state following a lawsuit victory last year to renovate its perfectly-adequate existing stadium into a bigger and much-more-schmancy stadium for its dwindling student population. How you like us now, deserters? (Dayton Daily News, 1/21/22)
- Finally today, on the eve of National School Choice Week, one of the attorneys who will soon be fighting in court to preserve Ohio’s EdChoice Scholarship Program has some blunt words for the haters in this op-ed published in the Dispatch. (Columbus Dispatch, 1/21/22)
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