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Gadfly Bites 3/7/22—Woe and whoa

Jeff Murray
3.7.2022
Gadfly Bites
  1. While the days of multiple Columbus City Schools buildings “pivoting to remote learning” due to huge numbers of absent staff members seem to be over for now, busing woes seem set to continue like it’s 2019 for a while longer. For charter school parents, that is. This piece also reminds us that the cases of three districts across the state who have already been fined big money for previous non-compliance in this area are still pending. (ABC6 News, Columbus, 3/4/22)
     
  2. Meanwhile, 96 percent of teachers at Menlo Park Academy charter school in Cleveland voted recently to unionize due to “low pay, work hours that extend into weekends, and a school board that maintains decision-making control.” School leadership do not seem best pleased by this, but the horse is surely already out of the barn. The “oppositional” tussle noted in the piece appears to this observer to hold hope only of delaying the inevitable…and maybe cranking people off while they wait it out. (WKSU-FM, Kent, 3/7/22)

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Tags: Cleveland Columbus Columbus City School District Menlo Park Academy

Jeff Murray is a lifelong resident of central Ohio. He previously worked at School Choice Ohio and the Greater Columbus Arts Council. He has two degrees from the Ohio State University and lives in the Clintonville neighborhood with his wife.

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