- First up this week, Fordham’s Aaron Churchill had a great op-ed in the Blade’s Saturday edition. He follows on from the editorial board’s previous concerned commentary on Ohio’s teacher pension system and adds a whole pile of additional red flags. (Toledo Blade, 7/16/22)
- While this piece on the status of school funding in Ohio could have used Aaron’s input to at least rebut some of the canards littered within it as undisputed fact, at least it is not one sided. The two sides are: traditional district employees who think the current school funding plan is a “victory” and a “huge step in the right direction” vs. traditional district employees who think the opposite of that. (Columbus Dispatch, 7/17/22)
- What a horrible situation this is: The independent STEM school scheduled to open this fall in Xenia has had to delay that start until fall 2023. The reasons are predictable and sound like a recitation of topics on the landing page of CNN (supply chain, Covid, inflation, downstream effects of shortages, etc.). But what a horrible blow for families less than six weeks from the start of school. The piece doesn’t say how many families are affected—remiss of the DDN, in my opinion—but all of them are now scrambling to find some other school. And given the region’s options, most of them will likely end up in exactly the same schools they were trying to leave in the first place. My heart goes out to them all. (Dayton Daily News, 7/18/22)
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