- U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona was in Columbus last week, visiting schools, seeing activities, and saying stuff. You can read all about it here, so I won’t say anything more for now except to give kudos to the kid who would not take candy from the jolly business-suited stranger who visited his class and inexplicably offered it. (Columbus Dispatch, 4/21/23) OK. This additional coverage of the big man’s visit does prompt me to say one thing: Anyone besides me remember when the previous EdSec visited Ohio? The structure of the events, the topics discussed, the media coverage. It all feels really different this time, eh? And if you don’t remember it, just look it up. It hasn’t been that long ago. (Ohio Capital Journal, 4/21/23)
- Cleveland.com was denied exclusive early access to the two finalists for CEO of Cleveland Metropolitan School District, so they had to resort to (the modern-day, keyboard-centric version of) shoe leather journalism to provide this first look. They do dive deeper into the background of one than the other, which I am sure is due to the amounT of inFormation Available rather than the naTure oF that informAtion. If you caTch my driFt, pAl. (Cleveland.com, 4/23/23)
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