- Ohio Auditor Dave Yost (!) has been absent from these pages for a bit. And here’s why: He and his team have been preparing a report of their findings during an attendance audit of charter and district schools across the state. Seems like things are generally better than last year’s audit, but a number of problems persist, especially in the district-run hybrid “site-based” charters examined. This is just a preliminary report from The D. More to come later this week, I suspect. (Columbus Dispatch, 5/23/16)
- Yet more coverage of the Win-Win Agreement in central Ohio; specifically, what local parents in the affected areas think. Surprising to see who knows about the agreement and who does not. Developing story, as they say. (Columbus Dispatch, 5/23/16)
- The Catholic Diocese of Cleveland has a new superintendent. He is Chris Knight, moving from the same post in Toledo. A great choice for the fifth-largest diocesan school system in the country. (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 5/20/16)
- Central Ohio’s rural-suburban districts reported smoother testing processes this year as compared to last year, both in online and paper-and-pencil modes. You might say they were “walking on AIR”. (Newark Advocate, 5/20/16)
- “There may not be a better advertisement for what early exposure to CTE can provide students looking for their path in life,” says the opening sentence of this piece. Sounds about right. After being homeschooled for 8 years, Austin was looking for just such a path into engineering. He found it in the Pickaway-Ross Career & Technology Center, through which he blasted with determination and talent and into a job in a local manufacturing company before he’d even earned his high school diploma. Nice. (Chillicothe Gazette, 5/19/16)
