- Kinda quiet in education news today. A decision has been made in Austintown schools on the fate of inter-district open enrollment, a hot-button issue as loyal Gadfly Bites subscribers will recall. The good news is that no students currently open enrolled in Austintown and who want to return will be barred from doing so. The bad news is that there will be no new students in grades 9 through 12 allowed to open enroll next year and that OE in the lower grades will be greatly restricted. There’s a lot of interesting nuggets in this concise story. Hope someone will do a proper bit of research on OE in the near future. (Youngstown Vindicator, 1/26/17)
- What’s the collective noun for a group of hard-bitten newspaper editors? A “column”, perhaps? (If that’s not it, it should. TM Gadfly Bites.) A column of PD editors today weighed in on the topic of Education Secretary-Designate Betsy DeVos and the unpaid fines assessed by Ohio on the organization she once led. Color me surprised. (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1/27/17)
