- A small crop of clips today. But let’s start in Columbus, where City Council OK'd a cabinet-level education department AND $5 million for a pre-K initiative. Both were integral parts of the twin ballot issues regarding education that failed last November. (Columbus Dispatch)
- The Akron school board was told yesterday by the director of Student Support Services that district suspension data “clearly says that our culture is to suspend kids.” The ABJ investigated and concluded that “the image of heavy-handed student discipline is driven by roughly 200 repeat offenders, less than a tenth of a percent of all students, who have been suspended for more than 10 days.” (Akron Beacon Journal)
- OK. I applaud officials in Chillicothe who want to try and figure out why they are a “net loser” of students in the open enrollment game and – more importantly – how they can better compete to keep more residents' children from leaving. Successfully doing so will help students all ove rthe region. However, I think they perhaps are going about it the wrong way and are most definitely misinterpreting their problematic survey data. (Chillicothe Gazette)
