- Aaron Churchill’s recent op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch—in support of state testing this year—drew some detailed (and wide-ranging) commentary in another media outlet. (Ohio Capital Journal, 2/1/21)
- After a short hearing on Monday, a Hamilton County judge determined that “There is no just cause for delay,” in school reopenings. Thus, Cincinnati City Schools was allowed to return for hybrid in-person learning yesterday. (Cincinnati Enquirer, 2/1/21) As of this writing, we have no news reports on how things went on Day One.
- We got one tiny peek into Columbus City Schools’ Day One reopening on Monday. Bad weather, unfortunately, resulted in a snow day on Tuesday. (Columbus Dispatch, 2/1/21)
- We also got a somewhat more-detailed look at Day One of Akron City Schools’ Remote Plus hybrid model. This is limited in-person school attendance for a select group of students for whom teachers determined that fully-remote learning was not working. It is even more complicated than it sounds, based on this report. And, as a rather proud “creature of habit” myself, I found little Journee’s story to be somewhat difficult to read about. It seems from all the evidence presented that she was doing fairly well learning from home full time and that the return to the school building was full of what sounds like world-rocking changes for a little one on the autism spectrum. I know Mom jumped at the chance to join Remote Plus, and I cannot fault her choice, but the description here kinda feels like a very individual and direct educational whipsaw—of the type I was lamenting for weeks back in the fall—beamed directly at this little girl. (Akron Beacon Journal, 2/3/21)
- Turning to a topic less bothersome to your humble clips compiler: February is, apparently, Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month. And the superintendent of Tolles Career and Technical Center in Madison County has an appreciation of CTE education in the neighborhood news media this week. She provides, and celebrates, a ton of utilization and outcome data along the way. Good stuff. (ThisWeek News, 2/1/21)
- Not exactly in that category, but worthy of note nonetheless, Governor DeWine released his executive budget plan for the next biennium this week. Gongwer provided an overview of K-12 education provisions as a start to the analysis. Cleveland.com dug in specifically to the proposal to boost funding for high-performing charter schools… (Cleveland.com, 2/1/21) …and to the proposal to boost funding to support student health and wellness. (Cleveland.com, 2/1/21) More to come, I’m sure!
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