- I don’t usually clip blog posts, but this seemed fairly significant. The learned Dr. Matt Ladner – senior research fellow at the Charles Koch Institute – took notice of our Ohio open enrollment report and added his thoughts to the discussion via Jay Greene’s blog. It’s an interesting take based on his knowledge of education reform history and informed by his own past research. Worth a look, even if you haven’t read our report yet. (Jay P. Greene’s blog, 6/12/17)
- Sticking with the school choice theme, it was announced this weekend that a new charter school will be coming to Sheffield, near Lorain, starting next school year. Repeat: it will be opening near Lorain. Near enough to drive. Academically-distressed Lorain City Schools. Or maybe take a bus. Yes, THAT Lorain. (Northern Ohio Morning Journal, 6/11/17)
- Finally today, a new report on the State of Preschool in the CLE shows that efforts to increase the number of 3 and 4 year olds in high quality preschool seats fell short of goals after three years of work. There’s some nuance there and the data are not all gloomy, but this stat at the very end of the story stuck out to me as fairly important: “...More than 7,000 [Cleveland kids] are in some type of preschool -- including more than 2,200 in unrated preschools.” No one asked for my opinion, but if it were me doing the recruiting, I think I’d start there. (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/12/17)
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