- Back in September in these very Bites, we were cheering because Lima private school Golden Bridge Academy was on the grow and moving to a new and prominent location on the town square. What was not, apparently, worthy of note in that piece at the time was that the school was changing its name and “going public”! So now we have this look at Leo Academy charter school’s first year on the square (cool building!) and noting its new curricular focus on financial literacy and business for its students which, says the school leader, is enhanced by being in the center of Lima’s entrepreneurial action. Nice! (Lima News, 5/27/21)
- Speaking of missing information, this coverage of a meeting between a number of Akron area superintendents and state Auditor Keith Faber on the topic of College Credit Plus is pretty darn interesting just the way it is. The pluses and minuses of the program in its various forms in different districts—varying locations, varying teaching methods, varying student eligibility, etc.—are all touched on. What would have helped the discussion greatly? Some acknowledgment that the state budget bill currently under debate in the Senate stands to make a number of changes that, at first blush, seem somewhat at odds with the supes’ own experiences. If you ask me, that is…which no one actually did. (The Independent, 5/27/21)
- No information missing in this, piece, however. The elected school board of Columbus City Schools appears poised to vote this week on committing a portion of their funding to join the putative lawsuit challenging Ohio’s voucher programs. The pro side is presented clearly, as is the con side. The latter goes like this: “This is about families who we would otherwise be servicing if we had our act together as a district. They cannot trust this district to produce quality young people with their students and they are not shy about articulating that.” (Columbus Dispatch, 5/28/21) Ditto for this editorial from Vindy.com, which is fully and squarely on the anti-voucher side—no balance required—in regard to pending legislation that would expand them. (Vindy.com, 5/28/21)
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