- Five voter-determined seats on the state board of education are up for election in November. However, the final boundaries of state board districts appear to be bound up in the ongoing kerfuffle over legislative district maps ahead of the August candidate filing deadline. Regardless of how it all shakes out, the claim of “legal limbo”, as noted in the headline, is likely in the eye of the beholder. (Columbus Dispatch, 7/10/22)
- After last week’s Dayton-area discussion, here’s a look at the picture of summer programming for students in the Cincinnati area. There are interesting comparisons to be made here regarding pre-pandemic summer offerings (nothing at all in Reading Community City Schools, classic “you don’t want to go to icky summer school, do you?” summer programming in North College Hill City Schools), pandemic learning-loss (big deal in Cincinnati City Schools, non-existent in Loveland City Schools), ESSER-funded programming the last few years (monster effort in Cincinnati, new school year “jumpstart” program in Reading), and what all this means for the future of summer programs once the federal money runs out (“We just won't be able to keep doing the same thing for free,” says a Loveland official; “We'll find a way to keep it this way,” says a North College Hill official.) Fascinating. (Cincinnati Enquirer, 7/10/22)
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