In case you missed it earlier this week, the Ohio Department of Education released guidance for schools and districts on how to issue coronadiplomas to
On March 27, President Trump signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act.
On Monday it was announced that Ohio schools will remain closed until at least April 30.
On March 22, Governor DeWine issued a stay at home order for Ohioans.
As all my dedicated, now-working-at-home subscribers will recall, the voucher grouchers saga began last fall with the release of the most recent list of EdChoice-eligible schools.
While every public school and district in the state is required to have a school safety plan on file, these are not generally public knowledge, much to the chagrin of some reporters.
We’ll start today with a bit of grim humor. (Seriously, what else did you expect from me?) How can we be sure that the current situation is an emergency?
In case you may have missed it somehow, Governor DeWine told the whole world over the weekend that Ohio’s school year may already be over.
School’s out. What? Y’all expected me to clip that for you? Not a chance.
Sorry to miss out on a Monday edition, but now we’re back with lots to catch up on.
It’s one of those days where the clips don’t seem to want to cohere into a story of their own, so how about the story of same news, different day? With a side order of “perhaps Murray’s been doing this too long”.
As previously threatened, state supe Paolo DeMaria created Ohio’s “working definition for competency” (that’s definitely code for something) by setting the new graduation
Another day, another charter school story that’s so good they didn’t have room to fit the words “charter school” in the printed story.
In case you missed it, Chad was a panelist at a recent Cleveland event discussing Ohio’s voucher program.
Still in something of a holding (our breath) pattern on EdChoice in Ohio, so let’s talk about some other stuff first. Big news from the world of student wellness funding. Governor DeWine says more money’s coming.
Today’s clips are a side trip inside the universe of the voucher grouchers saga; since many of the grouchers are otherwise occupied and we are in something of a lull. Maybe think of it like the gap between production of Return of the Jedi and Phantom Menace.
In EdChoice news: [Sung to the tune of that Hamilton! song] Here Comes the Governor! (Gongwer Ohio, 2/19/20) Seriously, thou
The endless hours of EdChoice testimony continued—including this past Saturday and a nearly 10-hour marathon on Presidents Day.
Updating the voucher groucher saga, the other shoe finally dropped earlier this week when the Senate at last refused to concur in the House’s Christmas stocking full of g
As sagas go, today’s voucher groucher update feels more like the laggy parts near the middle where the themes are expounded on but not much plot actually happens.
While we will be talking about Ohio’s EdChoice program today and all the folks working mightily to make changes to it, we’ll take a break from the official Voucher Grouchers saga since things are reasonably quiet on that front for the moment. I guarantee that will change soon enough.
When last we updated the voucher groucher saga, we noted that families and private schools had attempted to take the initiative by suing nearly everyone in state government due to the legislated delay in opening the EdChoice application process.
Again due to the publication timeline of Bites, I am lagging behind the biggest news.
So, as you probably know, the General Assembly voted to hose families interested in getting a voucher kowtow to the voucher grouchers rather than enacting some kind of quick fix to something that wasn’t broken or indeed rather than standing pat and letting the voucher program go forward as per
Before we get to the actual news you probably came here for, how about a related side trip?
