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- Some nice coverage here of recent enrollment boosts for charter, private, career tech, and STEM schools in Ohio. In short: Every option but the oxymoronically-named “default option”. Fordham-sponsored Dayton Leadership Academies was among those area charter schools experiencing increased enrollment, and executive director Tess Mitchner Asinjo was pleased to report that positive word-of-mouth referral from current DLA families is increasingly cited by new families who continue visiting the school even months into the academic year. Awesome news all around! (Dayton Daily News, 12/4/23)
- In the above piece, the DLA boss also gave a short list of reasons cited by some families for why they chose a charter over that “default” district “option”. I feel that she is probably being a little more circumspect than those parents were, and good on her for doing so. Not mincing words, though, is the opinion and community engagement editor of the Columbus Dispatch. She has some thoughts to share with the leaders of Columbus City Schools regarding the real message they should have received from the public following their levy victory last month: “Improvement is not only expected, but required.” She doesn’t lay out the consequences she envisions if district leaders don’t follow through on that expectation quickly, and good on her for doing so, but I think we can safely refer any curious reader to our first clip today by way of an answer. (Columbus Dispatch, 12/4/23)
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