- Our title today is a little misleading. It’s not so much that there’s a lot of news as there is a lot of coverage of the couple of bits of relevant news that exist. First up is discussion of the new graduation requirements plan (in whose development Fordham lent assistance and is thus namechecked everywhere) which are proposed for inclusion in the state budget. On Wednesday, that plan was officially incorporated into the Senate’s omnibus budget amendment. (Gongwer Ohio, 6/19/19) On Thursday, the Senate passed its budget unanimously and a House vote set up the well-loved conference committee process to reconcile the two different versions of the bill into its final form. (Y’all know how the song goes.) Fordham is namechecked here in discussion of the graduation requirements business, among a lot of other stuff. (Cincinnati Enquirer, 6/20/19) And here in discussion of this item particularly. (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/20/19) And here… (Dayton Daily News, 6/20/19) And again in Gongwer, where we started today’s clips. (Gongwer Ohio, 6/20/19) Meanwhile, in regard to these new graduation requirements, editors in Akron said, “At last”. Nice. (Akron Beacon Journal, 6/19/19)
- There are a few less hallelujahs being exclaimed over the Senate budget’s final proposal regarding academic distress commissions. Mainly because the Senate budget ultimately included nothing at all on the topic. (Gongwer Ohio, 6/20/19) So this means that the current ADC paradigm is not actually broken and it will continue on as it is without interruption, right? Probably wrong. Mainly because your humble clips compiler—the only person who believes the ADC paradigm is just fine as it is—is not a member of the state legislature, but also because there are still 637 other iterations of a “fix” for the real legislative conferees to choose from. Or not. (Dayton Daily News, 6/20/19)
- Meanwhile, back in the real world, whatever the elected board members of Dayton City Schools think they voted on in regard to expanding school transportation for high schoolers is apparently not what they voted on. New buses and drivers for RTA? Just a stack of passes that students can use on existing transit routes? Or how about just buying 2.1 million electric scooter rides at a dollar a pop? No one seems to know, according to this report, and it is putting the whole idea in jeopardy. I might suggest that when you can’t figure out how to actually expend your $100 mill surplus, perhaps it’s time to throw in the towel. (Dayton Daily News, 6/20/19)
- Now this is how you spend money: All extracurricular activities in Cambridge City Schools, and all breakfasts and lunches, are now free to every student. All this thanks to a “minimal increase” in revenue for the district…and of course thanks to the largesse of the federal government. (The Daily Jeffersonian, 6/20/19)
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