- Unnecessarily cranky headline here, if you ask me, but a generally even-keeled story on Ohio’s so-called “backpack funding” bill currently pending in the House Primary and Secondary Education Committee. Fordham’s own Aaron Churchill is among the reasonable voices saying reasonable things about the plan. (Dayton Daily News, 3/1/22)
- Speaking at that august committee, members heard a presentation from Ohio Department of Education officials on the impending rollout of revamped school and district report cards. (Gongwer Ohio, 3/1/22)
- The elected board of Cincinnati City Schools chose Iranetta Wright as their next superintendent. She comes to the Queen City from her stint as a deputy supe at Detroit City Schools and, among other credentials, was named a UNCF Innovator in Education and a Chiefs for Change Future Chief. (WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, 2/28/22)
- Here’s a historical selection of the hard-hitting education coverage brought to you by the Columbus Dispatch over the last 60 years or so. (Call it “Dispatch Bites”, if you wish.) I found the potted history of the Win-Win agreements between Columbus City Schools and its suburban counterparts to be particularly interesting. It starts like this: “In the 1960s and '70s, the city of Columbus was annexing neighboring townships, which created a problem…” if they do say so themselves “….the land it was adding overlapped into nearby school district boundaries. Because of that, boosters in Columbus City Schools wanted to take those students and the property-tax dollars from those districts.” Guess you can say such things out loud when there’s no other competition. “Things ‘got nasty,’ The Dispatch reported at the time, as residents who lived in those areas protested Columbus City Schools’ push.” Wonder why that was? (Columbus Dispatch, 2/28/22)
- Two Summit Academy charter schools in Canton are merging and relocating to a building on the campus of Malone University. Sounds like a fascinating partnership that could benefit Summit’s high schoolers especially and Malone’s students as well. As long as Summit can fund the $3 million in renovations, the novel arrangement should be operational next year. (Canton Repository, 3/1/22)
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