- This story attempts to make the point that Covid learning loss was somehow different for middle and high school students than for elementary students. Personally I don’t see any difference based on the anecdotes provided here. What I do see, however, is the statement that “it’s not clear how far behind middle school and high school students are statewide” followed immediately by “officials say high school and middle school students seem to have caught up faster than younger kids.” Feels like you can’t really know the latter without knowing the former first. But what do I know? I still remember the time when education leaders said Covid learning loss didn’t even exist. (Dayton Daily News, 7/17/22)
- Here’s a little non-update on the anti-voucher lawsuit still puttering away in the bowels of jurisprudence. I was struck by this phrase from an elected board member from one of the districts most vocal about how vouchers have hurt them: “We’re working to protect the tax dollars for the community who earned them.” Whose dollars are they, again, sir? (News 5, Cleveland, 7/18/22)
- While a little birdie tells me that the elected board members of Clinton-Massie Local Schools may be misinterpreting the recent changes made to interdistrict open enrollment funding based on their comments here, they are correct that it doesn’t work like it used to. Despite their fear of losing money on the deal, the magnanimous board voted to allow the current 242 students utilizing open enrollment to return (“invited them back”, says the story, ever so sweetly) for the 2022-23 school year. But no decisions have yet been made about the following year. The
interchangeabilityintersection of students and money has rarely been clearer. (The News-Journal, 7/19/22)
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