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- Sorry to email subscribers for messing up the date on Wednesday’s Bites. Busy week around here. TGIF, amiright?! Let’s start today with a clip that is the opposite of what we were talking about on Wednesday (which was the 25th). That is, folks who know what they’re talking about. Case in point: Fordham’s school funding guru Aaron Churchill discussing the topic of academic returns for students based on districts’ per-pupil spending amounts. Aaron succinctly points out the concerns on all sides of the issue: which districts have a lot of money and how they get it; which districts spend a lot of money just because they have it; and how all of them can target their spending—whatever it is—to specifically support student academic achievement. Good stuff. (Columbus Dispatch, 3/26/26)
- Here’s a look at some non-traditional student successes in Madison Local Schools in Mansfield. Specifically, all the career-tech students from their comprehensive high schools taking part in regional and statewide competitions for everything from cosmetology to interpersonal communication to medical math. Good stuff. (Richland Source, 3/21/26)
- And we end where we began: Folks who know stuff explaining it correctly. This time, its Wilmington City Schools leaders explaining—correctly, and in detail—various state report card measures to elected board members. This coverage lays out, for example, how the “gap closing” metrics work and why Wilmington received the scores they did—with minimal finger pointing and some very clear action steps the district can take to boost their future scores. Just like report cards are supposed to work. (The News-Journal, 3/26/26)
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