- Chad is quoted in this PD piece on the new charter sponsor evaluation framework coming online soon here in Ohio. Not soon enough to be able to avoid two years’ worth of evaluations basically happening at the same time. This unusual, regrettable, and currently unavoidable situation gives the usual suspects even more scope to complain. Not Chad, though. He is his normal pragmatic self, although his usual sunny optimism is put to the test. (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1/7/16)
- Chad’s sunny optimism is also tested in this piece, where he is quoted discussing the newly-released Quality Counts report. Ohio’s numbers are fairly grim, especially in terms of the achievement gap between students on either end of the income scale. “Recent reforms” are held out as a valuable tool in helping shrink said gap going forward. (Columbus Dispatch, 1/7/16)
- OK, I think “sunny optimism” is pretty well absent from this piece. Chad is one of a number of stakeholders quoted in regard to HB 420 – intended to “protect” schools’ report card grades if they have a large number of parents opting their children out of standardized testing. "We have to count all the students in a school,” says Chad, “and schools need to be encouraging people to take the assessment." (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1/7/16). The bill was introduced this week, with hearings to follow. You can check out a Chad-less report in Gongwer as well. (Gongwer Ohio, 1/6/16)
- Finally, fully optimistic and fully Chad-less (hmmm….) this editorial short take from the formerly-Big D lauds Ohio’s expanded College Credit Plus program, which we (and the formerly-Big D) told you about earlier this week. (Columbus Dispatch, 1/8/16)
