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- Woohoo!!! Kettering City Council last night approved the sale of nearly 10 acres of vacant city land to Dayton Regional STEM School for its expansion down to elementary school grades. It should be full speed ahead to a fall 2025 opening. Super exciting! (Dayton Daily News, 4/23/24)
- Also sounding pretty good this morning: Buckeye Ranch’s in-school student support work in Franklin County. Especially because their client roster actually includes a Columbus charter school. (Columbus Dispatch, 4/24/24)
- This all sounds pretty great, too. I mean how could you not like the idea of Toledo City Schools partnering with a local health care system to create a Pre-Medical & Health Science Academy? The enthusiasm for the effort from adults (and the one medical-education nerd student interviewed) is…well…infectious. But we have been down this “career academy” road before in a number of districts—multiple times here in Toledo. How long until all this happy rah-rah talk of “we will do…” and “they will learn…” and “the future of medicine…” inevitably turns back into “we don’t guarantee any graduate a job…” and “it’s really the chance to pursue widely-applicable work skills…”? You know it’s coming. And you know I’ll be waiting. (Toledo Blade, 4/22/24)
- Well NOW it’s getting serious. Tiny Keystone Local Schools in northeast Ohio is facing a bus driver shortage so severe that evening and weekend sports games are threatened. More and more district parents are being deputized to transport their kids (and some teammates) to away matches and some of those field skirmishes have been postponed when not enough parents can do so. (Morning Journal, 4/23/24)
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