- School Choice Ohio’s Executive Director Matt Cox penned a terrific editorial piece that ran in the Enquirer today, focusing on the little-reported financial aspects of voucher use in Ohio. (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- Here’s a fantastic story about the I Know I Can program, whose long-time efforts to link Columbus high school students to college could take a huge leap forward if they achieve their goal of putting a college adviser in every district high school. Laudatory and awesome, but let’s not forget about charter and career tech high schools too! (Columbus Dispatch)
- We told you yesterday about the status of Columbus’ parent-trigger pilot – in two months, not a single parent has reached out to the group charged with providing information on options in 20 bottom-of-the-barrel district schools. There was a lot of speculation in that piece as to why this is, and today Dispatch editors put forward their own opinion on the matter.
- As we mentioned yesterday, charter schools are often criticized for “slick advertising” and “recruiting”, especially when they use state funds to do so. The argument is that school districts can’t do the same. We showed that early college high schools can do it (not charter schools, yes, but not traditional districts either). Today, we see that districts can do it too. Strongsville schools have a PR firm on retainer. Why? The board wants to reach Strongsville residents with a positive message about the schools. Well duh. (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- We’ve been tracking the proposed (and slow-moving) Cardinal and Ledgemont district merger/consolidation talks for some time here at Gadfly Bites. Well, here’s a twist: a proposal for a single new high school that would actually serve four area districts. This sounds fantastic to me, but if the history of the merger talks are any indication, this proposal will have a long and unproductive life and will probably only ever exist in the pages of the newspaper. I blame sports. (Willoughby News-Herald)
