- Contract negotiations between the teachers union and district administration resumed in Dayton yesterday after nearly two months off. Those negotiations were to begin with the two sides sitting in separate rooms. That way nothing could go wrong. Nice. (Dayton Daily News, 8/2/17) Clearly at least one of those rooms was not hermetically sealed, because this document of outstanding issues leaked out of one of them and into Jeremy Kelley’s eager hands. (Dayton Daily News, 8/2/17) How’d it go? That information leaked out too. Fortunate for Jeremy for sure. (Dayton Daily News, 8/3/17)
- Sir Ken Robinson flew across the pond and landed in Stark County this week, stirring up the editorial board of the Rep to opine against standardized testing. (Canton Repository, 8/3/17)
- Back in the real world, the district school bus transportation monopoly is being used as a weapon against families exercising school choice in North Ridgeville. Again. (Oh no he didn’t just write that!) There’s already a list of schools – mostly charters – to which the district deems it “impractical” to transport students. They are now adding to that list two private schools in Avon. That’ll show ‘em who’s boss. This brief but thorough piece notes that families thus deprived must be offered payment in lieu of transportation but notes helpfully that they don’t have to accept and contest the determination of “impracticality” all the way to the Ohio Department of Education. Interestingly, while that adjudication process is ongoing – which I’m sure is really quick and smooth – the district in question must continue to provide transportation. You don’t say. (Elyria Chronicle 8/4/17)
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