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- Not much to report on today—just a couple of small oddities. First up, while we hear that lots of schools are cutting back as their Covid funds run out, PBS stations in Ohio are still rolling out new stuff using that same batch of money. These include science-in-a-box kits delivered to after-school programs and virtual field trips to interesting places in the state available online. It does make sense, though, that they’ve still got things to release since, in proper PBS style, the Ohio Learns 360 initiative took
quite a whilea deliberative amount of time to get off the ground after funding was received. (PBS Western Reserve, 2/21/24) - Speaking of things moving slowly, spare a sympathetic thought for the superintendent of Parma City Schools. Dude was thwarted at every turn while trying to get demo of the closed Parma High School started last year. Now that it’s happening, very slowly, lots of folks are apparently invading the site to look around, spray some graffiti, and take selfies for the ‘gram. Bossman is imploring folks to stay out of the unsafe demo zone, but work won’t be completed until freakin’ June at the earliest, so I reckon it will be a very long four months for that poor guy. (Cleveland 19 News, 2/21/24)
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