- As expected, the Plain Dealer waited a day before reporting on the education MBR. Their focus is on the changes to testing and graduation requirements, something with which we are all grappling. (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- There was an anti-Common Core rally at the Statehouse yesterday. Perhaps you felt the thunderous presence of the mighty crowd. No? Me neither. Didn’t get much press coverage either, although a couple papers picked up a brief story via AP. The jist: a Common Core repeal bill is sitting in the House Education Committee; the sponsor and the ralliers want to get enough representatives to sign a petition to force it out and onto the House floor. For the second day in a row, I’m forced to type the words “there’s no way this will ever be a Schoolhouse Rock song”. (Ravenna Record-Courier)
- The headline writer at the Enquirer has taken a chill-pill and returned to Jack Webb Mode (just the facts) for this story about a new charter school which will be operated by Norwood Schools starting next fall. It is a very small blended-learning model housed in a district classroom with flexible hours and pacing. (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- It’s graduation time in Ohio, as we’ve noted. Interestingly, not a lot of charter school graduations have been covered in the papers around the state. Here is a very nice story about the graduation ceremony at Townsend Community School in Northern Ohio, a charter which sounds very much like the one that Norwood is starting. Best wishes for much success to them all. (Sandusky Register)
- From the sublime to the ridiculous: a fight erupted at a Kindergarten graduation reception in Cincinnati last week (Cincinnati Enquirer), and a "pretend" cafeteria fight turned into a real food fight on the last day of school in Reynoldsburg; 8 officers were called to the scene. (Reynoldsburg News/ThisWeek News)
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