- Our own Aaron Churchill had an op-ed in the Dispatch yesterday, discussing the findings and recommendations from our recent charter school funding report. You know – the findings that show students in charter schools are underfunded compared to their peers in traditional district and the recommendations that say this should, like, not be the case anymore. (Columbus Dispatch, 1/27/19) You know it’s an important topic because the editors at the D got a counterpoint op-ed from William Phillis and published them both side-by-side. Personally, Mr. Phillis seems a bit less “growly” than usual here. Which is good. (Columbus Dispatch, 1/27/19)
- There has been a series of stories in the Blade in recent weeks about Toledo School for the Arts, which I have not clipped for you because they seemed (to me) to more like social media commentary than hard news. Here, at last, is the hard(er) news version of a couple of years of staff turnover at one of the oldest—and highest-performing—charter schools in the state. It is super interesting to hear TSA treated as a venerable and indispensable institution in the community. Believe me when I say that not a lot of charter schools get the benefit of that doubt. (Toledo Blade, 1/27/19) Here, also, is some unaccustomed love for a dropout recovery charter school in Butler County. (Butler County Connect, 1/27/19)
- The state superintendent and the local state school board member from Waynesville visited some schools in this very rural part of Ohio last week. Now this kind of love expressed for a school is par for the course. (Lima News, 1/25/19)
- Things sound pretty rosy in the charter school and rural school arenas, I reckon. So what’s going on in our traditional public schools in more urban parts of the state? A lot of stress, difficulty, hard challenges, and illness, it seems. So what is going on in our schools to help combat these ailments of modern life; these impediments to proper education? More sleep for kids, and who am I to argue with the CDC on this one? (Dayton Daily News, 1/26/19) Yoga as both classroom work and alternative to punishment, per the also-hard-to-refute NYU. (Columbus Dispatch, 1/28/19). And, potentially, medicinal marijuana which may soon find its way into Ohio schools. Not sure who’s behind all that, but then they probably don’t even remember themselves. (Columbus Dispatch, 1/28/19)
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