- Barring anything unusual, the Columbus teachers strike is over after mediation between the two sides. Picket lines disappeared yesterday and proper classes will finally start on Monday. (Spectrum News 1, 8/25/22) Buoyed by the apparent success of the all-consuming agitation in Columbus, it seems we can expect more to come from teachers unions in northeast Ohio… (Ideastream Public Media, 8/24/22) …and Dayton too. (Dayton Daily News, 8/22/22)
- But mediation doesn’t work miracles in every situation. (Toledo Blade, 8/25/22)
- Despite what we had previously heard, Columbus City Schools appeared to be no better at remote learning than it had been previously. Of course, most of its putative experts on the topic were practicing their in-person marching at the time. And, as before, only a tiny and powerless fraction of folks involved had any incentive to actually make it work. (10TV News, Columbus, 8/24/22)
- Meanwhile, on yet another opportunistic front, you’ll never guess what kind of “bind” OFT boss Melissa Cropper thinks teachers and students are “trapped” in and should be “freed” from right away. (Spectrum News 1, 8/24/22)
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