- Here’s the final look at Columbus City Schools’ summer program this year, including the news that 112 of the 412 seniors in the class of 2021 who had yet to meet graduation requirements in June accomplished that task over the summer and walked the stage last weekend. The remainder are expected to return for the 2021-22 school year as fifth-year seniors. Additionally, eight summer grads were from classes prior to 2021, and nineteen summer grads, interestingly, were from the class of 2022 and thus graduating almost a year early. Lots more details in the piece as well. (Columbus Dispatch, 8/18/21)
- Speaking of education recovery from the pandemic (were we?), South-Western City Schools in suburban Columbus has provided a detailed plan of how they are going to spend down their ESSER funds. I’m not sure how upgraded sound and lighting for their auditoriums is meant to figure into that work, but I suppose that if you’re going to contemplate overcoming two (three?) years of Covid-disrupted learning, it can’t hurt to do so while awash in $4.4 million worth of Leko LEDs and flattering pink gels. (ThisWeek News, 8/17/21)
- And still speaking of pandemic recovery (really, were we?), we learn from this piece that Kindergarten enrollment in northeast Ohio school districts has rebounded to pre-pandemic normal this year. Well, in the suburban districts reported here, that is. (News 5, Cleveland, 8/19/21) You know what else is happening in the suburbs? Increasing calls for more charter schools and other choice options, it seems. (Ohio Public Radio Statehouse News Bureau, 8/20/21)
- The good folks at the Enquirer had to work hard to find a story about first day of Cincinnati City School transportation problems with students using the standard SORTA bus routes. They didn’t actually manage to find one, in my estimation, but that didn’t stop ‘em from writing more than 1,450 words on it. On the plus side: the general newspaper-reading public now knows the tricky difference between the two Number 11 routes. (Cincinnati Enquirer, 8/19/21)
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