Daily Digest: Double-Checking U.S. News Ranking Data, Re-Rejecting OHSAA Competitive Balance and More

National Center for Education Statistics to check data after erroneous U.S. News & World Report rankings errors – Education Week

OHSAA’s ‘competitive balance’ initiative fails again – Initiative would have made socioeconomics a factor in how schools are assigned to tournament divisions in many team sports. Aurora Advocate

Ohio Catholic university ends student health plan – “[Franciscan University] in eastern Ohio says it will drop student health insurance partly because of a new federal health-care rule requiring religious-affiliated institutions’ insurance plans to provide contraception coverage.” Columbus Dispatch

Reynoldsburg school board OKs open enrollment – ThisWeek Community Newspapers

Pennsylvania cyber-school employees defeat unionization attempt – Unionizing charter school employees is an “expensive undertaking in both money and manpower for the unions. Only the largest charter schools or networks are worth the trouble.” EIA Intercepts