- Chad’s quote from last month’s Dispatch story on the CREDO e-school report was recycled in a blog post on the website of Non Profit Quarterly. (Non Profit Quarterly, 11/10/15) Ditto for this version of same on the blog of NCPA, which quotes Chad and Jamie’s blog post/testimony on the same topic. (National Center for Policy Analysis, 11/12/15) What’s the point? I don’t know either.
- Back in the real world, here’s a brief piece on the Men of Color event in Dayton earlier this week. This is a local iteration of the president’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative to provide access to strong male role models for local students. More than 200 men participated. Nice. (Dayton Daily News, 11/11/15)
- The leader of the Men of Color initiative in Dayton is a former state board of education member. He is probably very happy to be off that board now that the search for a new state superintendent is getting underway. Even the impaneling of a group to formulate the RFP rules for a search firm has been mired in politics. It’s going to be a long winter around here. (Columbus Dispatch, 11/12/15)
- The Ohio Alliance of Public Charter Schools is holding its annual charter schools conference in Columbus this week. Journalist Patrick O’Donnell provided some coverage of yesterday’s sessions, in which national charter school supporters gave their thoughts on the state of play in Ohio, by which I mean HB 2 and the reforms enacted with it. (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 11/12/15)
- Probably not coincidentally, Patrick also reported yesterday on NAPCS’s tenth annual charter school sector report. In it, Cleveland and Dayton are shown to be in the top 15 cities nationwide for percentage of students attending charter schools. (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 11/12/15)
- The first informal testimony on the topic of “pay-to-play” (that is, charging fees to families of students participating in extracurriculars like football and band) occurred this week in Columbus. More to follow. (Columbus Dispatch, 11/12/15)
