- Fordham’s annual report card analysis is cited in this piece as the bestower of the “honor” that Leetonia Schools received this year as a “high-quality” school district. Thanks guys, but we’re not the source of the data. Appreciate the media hit though. (Salem News, 10/30/16)
- While the ongoing kerfuffle between Ohio’s largest online school and the state department of education over its recent attendance audit seems to be on the back burner simmering quietly in some darkened judicial or legislative chamber, the good folks at The D are keeping the topic alive and in the light by taking a look at absenteeism and truancy at ECOT. (Columbus Dispatch, 10/30/16)
- We’re in the home stretch for the vote on the renewal of the levy funding the Cleveland Plan. Wrapping up his look at the many aspects voters should consider before choosing, Patrick O’Donnell discusses the effort to replace or close failing schools in CMSD (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 11/1/16); the mixed-bag of results from various non-academic interventions in the district’s high-poverty “investment schools” (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 11/1/16); and the district-wide goals such as increasing graduation rates, partnering with high-quality charter schools, and the like. (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 11/2/16) Fascinating level of detail here. Patrick does a fantastic job with a ton of data and a lot of moving parts.
- While a contract deal was reached yesterday between Louisville schools and the union representing its support staff, the district’s teachers went out on strike this morning. (Akron Beacon Journal, 11/2/16) Union reps tell the Repository they are hoping for a “quick” strike, offering to sit down with the school board again as early as today. (Canton Repository, 11/2/16)
