- College Board Senior Advisor and Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow at Fordham Kathleen Porter-Magee talks to the Plain Dealer about the replacement for Ohio’s New Learning Standards as proposed in HB597. Sounds like an inevitable mess should the bill pass. (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Week Three of testimony on the aforementioned HB597 begins – and maybe ends? – today in the House Rules Committee. Editors in Canton opine again against the bill, calling the campaign against the Common Core in Ohio “misguided”. (Canton Repository)
- Something else that editors in Canton are supportive of: teacher evaluation. (Canton Repository)
- Yesterday, we told you of registration problems for dozens of students in Mansfield, an untold number of whom are still sitting at home days after school started. There was a veiled intimation in that piece that a closed charter school was to blame. Today, the veil is off and without evidence or numbers the district blames the charter – which closed back in June – for failing to send complete records. While I am sympathetic to the work that is created by incomplete records, a couple of questions come to mind: 1. How many of these students had their records given to the charter school from the district in the first place? 2. Why is it apparently considered “going the extra mile” to create temporary schedules for such students to get them out of their houses and into school? 3. Why doesn’t the district have a “new student only” day at the start of school to suss out just these problems? Story developing. (Mansfield News Journal)
- Speaking of putting students first and dealing with the paperwork quietly and professionally behind the scenes (duh), a new lunch system in Sylvania schools ends the possibility of taking lunch trays away from kids whose parents (parents, not kids!) can’t pay. And – miracle of miracles – it can also flag food allergies and dietary restrictions. Ain’t technology – and compassion – amazing? (Toledo Blade)
