Darlene Fisher

The actions of the Toledo Public Schools these past two weeks has been anything but exemplary. Let’s start with the Start High school graduation. The Start graduates were given instructions concerning graduation that included the following. “This is still a school event and a dignified ceremony, not a ball game. No gestures, dancing, hand signs, hooting, hollering, yelling.

Education is a hot topic for Toledo and Troy gets the newsmakers. Here is a collection of today’s interviews that cover the Marina District project and fact finder report.

Darlene Fisher

Steven wanted to address the issues on a local blog about the fact-finder report. We have linked Friday and Monday interviews.

Steven Flagg: Monday Interview Part 1

Is Johnny Hildo at the City Paper really the president of the Toledo Board of Education? All indications point to it, given the words written in the Hildo column this week. Johnny Hildo contrasts his amoral behavior to a possibly “perfectly chaste and sober” Darlene Fisher.

Unprofessional political cartooning. With TPS’s 96,000 days of missed school due to suspensions(in school and out of school) and expulsions it would seem that this would be a matter of concern not a matter of derision from the Toledo Blade.