- A little more coverage of our new report evaluating the EdChoice Scholarship Program. First up, Jeremy Kelly visited a couple of local Catholic schools that take voucher students and the new superintendent of Dayton City Schools to get their take on the research, along with questioning our own Chad Aldis further. Nicely nuanced discussion. Both school leaders More on Figlio report. (Dayton Daily News, 7/10/16) Also finely-nuanced is Patrick O’Donnell’s look at the report. Which is really nice because the program doesn’t actually impact many Cleveland kids, one of several facts seemingly missed by some folks in the active online PD comments section. (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 7/11/16)
- The state’s largest online school sued the state late on Friday in an effort to stop the Ohio Department of Education from obtaining login records if its students. We’ll let you know how it all turns out. (Columbus Dispatch, 7/8/16)
- I don’t know if Youngstown Schools CEO Krish Mohip is a competitive runner, but if he is, he sounds like he’d be the kind who would help a fallen runner up and finish strong, even if it meant not coming in first himself. Why do I think this? Because Mohip has hired Tyrone Olverson – one of the finalists he beat out for CEO – to assist in the large and time-sensitive effort of crafting an academic recovery plan for the district. Amazing and generous, right? Maybe less so when you realize that Olverson’s specific charge is to evaluate the district’s central office staff and recommend “changes”. To make our competitive running analogy complete, imagine a hungry lion standing near the finish line of the race. (Youngstown Vindicator, 7/9/16)
