- The Dispatch today published an op ed by our own Chad Aldis, reinforcing the call for a common-sense overhaul of Ohio’s charter school law. (Columbus Dispatch)
- Editors in Akron today published their own editorial on the same subject. They are a bit more pessimistic about both recommendations and determination on the part of Ohio’s elected leaders than Chad is, but they seem generally supportive of the Fordham-sponsored research that has led up to the overhaul effort. Nice. (Akron Beacon Journal)
- I mentioned that yesterday’s StateImpact story on the “American Graduate” project seemed to be missing something. Specifically, it seemed to lack any tie-in to real efforts going on in Cleveland to help students with difficult family and life circumstances to stay in school and graduate. Thus I was hopeful that this follow-up story talking more deeply about the specific struggles faced by several of the college students on the Cleveland panel would help to provide more insight. I was wrong. Sorry folks: “Just Don’t Not Achieve, No Matter What” is not a helpful message for kids in the real world. (StateImpact Ohio)
- We’ll end on a bit of good news. We told you several weeks ago that the Parma school district was simultaneously negotiating with both teaching and non-teaching staff unions and that a recent round of talks led to speculation about what could have been a double-whammy strike. Well, it now seems like the longest-simmering of these negotiations – with the non-teaching staff – may be settled as a tentative agreement was reached this week. (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
