- Here’s a nicely-detailed look at major education funding provisions included in Governor DeWine’s budget proposal. It all seems pretty chill if you ask me, even when discussing how likely it is that the proposals will pass in the General Assembly as DeWine has outlined them. Chad Aldis and Aaron Churchill are both quoted in the section on charter school funding changes. (Cleveland.com, 2/6/23)
- The previous piece discusses voucher expansion proposals made by both Governor DeWine and via a separate bill currently pending in the Senate. Both are, in a word, seismic. However, Akron City Schools is actively hoping that neither of them comes to fruition apparently, as its new enrollment projection report specifically keeps voucher eligibility static over the next 10 years. It’s called “planning” in the piece, but that feels like a misnomer to me at this point. (Akron Beacon Journal, 2/6/23)
- And speaking of pre-pandemic lows (were we?), here’s a look at how some northwest Ohio districts are working to re-attain the non-lofty heights of reading proficiency among their kiddos notched in 2019. While we don’t get any detail of what specifically Toledo City Schools is doing, the implementation of LETRS protocols in Springfield Local Schools is, it seems, something of a miracle. (See today’s headline quote.) So much so, in fact, that officials there are actually planning to use it in more than just first grade. Miraculous indeed. (WTOL-TV, 2/3/23)
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