Ohio may create tax credit scholarship
Fordham has written about tax credit scholarships before ? do they increase competition and improve traditional public schools?
Fordham has written about tax credit scholarships before ? do they increase competition and improve traditional public schools?
It's a Friday in December and so you're probably holiday shopping for your pets, eating candy canes, or figuring out what to wear for your bad holiday sweater party (wear the purple and green one!)? or possibly none of those things.
Yesterday the Fordham Ohio team released its 2010 year in review, a synthesis of our work over the year and a document which we expect has already been printed out and is now hanging framed on your wall. Well, hopefully you saw it and read or skimmed a good bit of it.
Thanks to Pandora and other free music-streaming websites, many Fordham staffers can be seen with at least one ear-bud channeling music during stressful report production, editing, etc. throughout the year. Now that the holidays are upon us, one popular jingle comes to mind: So this is Christmas
A selection of Fordham quotes in national media, Ohio newspapers, and the blogosphere
Recently, China's Hubei Bureau of Education Deputy Director Huang Jian has been visiting Ohio, specifically our schools, as part of the U.S.-China Administrator Shadowing Project.
Yesterday the Gates-led ?District-Charter Collaboration Compact?
What happens when a charter principal says "I'm outta here"?
We've been no fans of the Columbus City School District's treatment
Much has been written about spectacular charter school blow-ups that have cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. Rarely, if ever, do we see headlines that read ???Closed charter school returns $423,421 to state's coffers.???
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation has been authorizing (aka sponsoring) charter schools in Ohio since 2005, and we’ve learned a ton these past five years. Sharing these lessons is important – one of the reasons we devote time, energy, and money on our annual sponsorship report.
A key purpose of education is to strengthen the polity. Thomas Jefferson summed it up when he said, ???To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.??? The health of Ohio's polity is like that of a middle-aged smoker.
The Buckeyes need a new playbook; this is it
In this policy brief, Fordham gives its advice to Governor-elect Kasich and the incoming leaders of the Ohio House and Senate as it relates to the future of K-12 education policy in the Buckeye State.
Ohio school districts and charters that signed onto the state's Race to the Top proposal had until October 22 to submit their plans for implementation to the Ohio Department of Education.
John Kasich won the Ohio governor's race last Tuesday. He will take office two months from tomorrow with much goodwill and support in both the state House and Senate, where significant GOP majorities will rule both chambers. But he will also face a vast budget shortfall?estimated at $6 to $8 billion?for the next biennium.
Ohio has a new Republican governor, a GOP-controlled House, a new US senator, and come January many other statewide offices will be a sea of red.
New data from a Harvard survey shows that Obama is gradually falling out of favor with 18-29 year-olds. According to the survey, 49 percent of ?millennials? approve of the job the president is doing, while 11 months ago, 56 percent approved.
State cut scores still don't make the cut
In this week's Ohio Education Gadfly there's a lot of insight and analysis on school spending. Check out:
The Cincinnati Enquirer recently published an article about the poor performance of students at Ohio’s foreign language immersion schools.
This morning Jamie and I attended a presentation by Policy Matters Ohio on the economic prospects that face young Ohioans.?
Don't miss this week's Ohio Education Gadfly for its usual frankness and insights on education policy matters. Check out:
In a bold???and dare I say inspiring???op-ed to appear in Sunday's Washington Post, 16 school district leaders share a manifesto on ???how to fix our schools.???