- It’s Friday. Time to update you on the seemingly-endless kerfuffle between Ohio’s largest online school and the state department of education regarding the school’s ongoing attendance audit. The school delivered 48 boxes of documents to the state yesterday – one day earlier than previously agreed upon. Immediately afterward, representatives of the school noted that they are currently waiting on documents from the state via a public records request. (Gongwer Ohio, 8/4/16) Meanwhile, a second front in the kerfuffle seems to have opened up between the school and state auditor’s office (!?) regarding yet more documents and the vaunted – and snooze-inducing – doctrine of the “agreed upon procedures” audit. (Columbus Dispatch, 8/4/16)
- School is right around the corner and folks in Mansfield are getting ready. Especially for their youngest students. Kindergarten camp there sounds like a hoot. I fully concur with the youngster who thinks that “Ten in the Bed” is a picture-book classic. (Mansfield News Journal, 8/3/16)
- Speaking of school starting, the brass is being polished to a high shine (or is that the lenses to the 386 cameras?) in the Colossus of Lorain (aka the district’s schmancy new high school). Meanwhile the Lorain school board is putting the finishing touches on some important paperwork. To wit: the lease agreement between themselves and Lorain County Community College, who will soon have the keycards to swanky space inside the Colossus from which to do whatever connecting they need to with Lorain high school students. The other lease agreement being signed this week was between the board and St. Mary Parish, in whose venerable empty (and admittedly-too-small) school building 220 Lorain kids will be crammed to participate in the district’s rapidly-expanding dropout recovery and prevention program. On the upside, no keycards required. On the downside, the already-stretched space may be shrunk even further on an unannounced basis should the parish need space for funerals or cakewalks or bingo. (Northern Ohio Morning Journal, 8/4/16)
