- WEB CORPS is a great-sounding summer program for low-income rising juniors and seniors in Lorain County…but unfortunately not all of them. During the six-week program, students work with technology professionals to learn how to build a website for a small business. Best of all, the kids are paid up to $12.50/hour while they’re learning important skills and networking with professionals. Awesome, right? The only thing that would make it better would be opening it up to charter and private school kids in the county rather than limiting it to just Lorain High School students. Not awesome. (Morning Journal, 4/18/23) Here’s another great-sounding program…with the exact same downside. Cleveland Public Power has an apprenticeship program that helps young high school grads in the city go from novice to union lineworker while getting paid and learning on the job. While this piece celebrates her, it also laments that the awesome Ta’Jahnae Buchanan is the first and only female to enter and to complete the program. Just spitballin’ here, guys, but you know what might get you more applicants of all kinds? Dropping those limitations and opening it up to charter and private school graduates too. (The Land, 4/21/23)
- No such problem here. While this coverage only mentions districts, I know that Sinclair Community College does not limit access to its College Credit Plus courses to only kids attending district schools. That’s probably one of the reasons why it’s both popular and wildly successful. Just sayin’. (Dayton 24/7 Now, 4/19/23)
- Going back to The Land for a second: Two finalists have been announced for the soon-to-be-open CEO position at Cleveland Metropolitan School District. Since Warren Morgan and Ricardo “Rocky” Torres both worked at CMSD in the past, one hopes they are fully aware the district partners with lots of charter schools and they must lead for the benefit of their students as well. (Cleveland.com, 4/20/23)
- Who knows whether this event will have the desired effect of bringing out new candidates for open school bus driver positions, but you have to give it up for the clever idea. At a minimum, there are worse ways to spend a Saturday morning in Licking County. (Newark Advocate, 4/17/23)
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