- Internal numbers and state test score data indicate that Dayton City Schools’ students are almost back to 2019 achievement levels. Believe it or not, this is something to be happy about after two years of pandemic-related cratering of test scores. Superintendent Elizabeth Lolli credits district teachers for the reversal of fortunes, especially the two-teachers-in-every-classroom model being used this year for lower elementary grades. It will be continued next year. (Dayton Daily News, 6/29/22)
- Meanwhile, teachers are not the only ones in line for a $750 Covid-service bonus courtesy of the elected board members of Canton City Schools. In fact, all employees will receive the bonus—paid for with $1.5 million of federal pandemic-relief money—except for the superintendent and treasurer. (Canton Repository, 6/29/22)
- Speaking of pandemic-relief funding, here’s a great-sounding summer camp partnership between Marion City Schools and the local YMCA. (Marion Star, 6/30/22)
- We have seen before how not to do it, and it gets ugly real quick. But apparently this is how a charter school is supposed to start edging toward football competition in central Ohio: Extreme deference and 10 years of patience. (ThisWeek News, 6/29/22)
- In former-state-supe-candidate news (because this is a thing we have to pay attention to again), one former short-lister has a new gig… (WLWT-TV, Cincinnati, 6/28/22) …and one former semi-finalist is leaving a cushy job on the east coast to come back to Ohio for an “undisclosed” opportunity. (Stamford Advocate, 6/24/22). And if someone out there is working on a new list, this would not be a bad place to start. Just sayin’ (Morning Journal, 6/28/22).
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