Kasich keeps Ohio teacher residency program
Jessica PoinerNestled within the General Assembly’s final budget plan as sent to Governor Kasich on June 28 was an under-the-radar provision that would have eliminated Ohio’s teacher residency program. This didn’t get a lot of coverage.
Gadfly Bites 7/31/17 - Hillbilly Melody?
Jeff MurrayThere is a new superintendent in Youngstown City Schools. In a surprise to almost no one, it is not one of the out-of-towners recommended by the school board. It is instead, the current interim supe, a district veteran. (Youngstown Vindicator, 7/29/17)
Gadfly Bites 7/28/17 - "Poverty is a lifestyle."
Jeff MurrayLet’s start today with some statewide education news. To wit: this question.
Gadfly Bites 7/26/17 - And the Lorain CEO is...
Jeff MurrayOur own Chad Aldis is one of several Ohio sources quoted in this national piece looking at the state’s second-draft ESSA plan: how and why it’s changed, what its reception at USDOE might be, and what it means for accountability back home.
Gadfly Bites 7/24/17 - "What are you doing with that Blackberry during school hours, young lady? You know the rules."
Jeff MurrayNot much education news to report on from the weekend. In fact, there’s very little in the following pieces that has to do with education. More about adult interests, as usual. How very sad.
Sizing up teacher induction
Jessica PoinerThe New Teacher Center (NTC) is a nonprofit organization that aims to improve student learning via supports for beginning teachers.
Gadfly Bites 7/21/17 - Oh the thinks you can think
Jeff MurrayWe start to today with a clutch of stories from Lorain. The “realness” of the arrival of a CEO in the district seems to have caught up with the elected school board.
Chicago Public Schools goes overboard on graduation requirements
Jamie Davies O'LearyOhio policy makers just dismantled the high school graduation requirements for the class of 2018.
Gadfly Bites 7/19/17 - CEOMG!
Jeff MurrayWhile many folks in the education realm here in Ohio are congratulating themselves on lowering the state’s graduation standards for the Class of 2018, some are still questioning the wisdom of the action (our own Aaron Churchill included) and some are worried about unintended consequences and/
Gadfly Bites 7/17/17 - "A distinct disadvantage"
Jeff MurrayWe start today with something of a broad overview of education in Ohio, courtesy of state supe Paolo DeMaria. The supe presented his vision at the City Club of Cleveland last week, stressing the need for strategic planning and broad goals rather than what he calls “random acts of policy development”.
Gadfly Bites 7/14/17 - The "more on" edition
Jeff MurrayAs originally noted in Wednesday’s clips, here is more on this week’s Ohio Supreme Court rulings against the state’s largest online charter school. And I do mean “against”. It ain’t over yet, of course, but three rulings in two hours has got to be a tough blow to absorb.
Gadfly Bites 7/12/17 - "There would not be many politicians or educators who would be able to pass these tests…” Discuss.
Jeff MurrayNow here is a confluence of articles that I would call inexplicable. First up, the state board of ed met earlier in this week and seemed eager to talk about Ohio’s CEO-style Academic Distress Commissions. That is, about how much they all seem to loathe them. Seriously? None of you see any positives at all?
Ohio’s graduation debacle: The return of social promotion
Aaron ChurchillThe Ohio General Assembly recently passed and Governor Kasich approved legislation that allows students in the class of 2018 to graduate without demonstrating competency on state exams or meeting career and technical education-related requirements.
Think carefully before ditching WorkKeys
Jessica PoinerIn early June, State Superintendent DeMaria shared with the state school board his recommendations for stream
Gadfly Bites 7/10/17 - Dressing up report cards so they're a little less "punitive"
Jeff MurrayIn case you missed it, there was some talk a week or so ago that two new charter schools planned for the 2017-18 school year might not open in Cleveland due to some procedural, paperwork-y type issues.
Gadfly Bites 7/5/17 - Two surprises from Youngstown
Jeff MurrayIn case you missed it last week, the General Assembly passed the new two-year state budget and Governor Kasich signed it into law…making a record number of line item vetoes along the way. Jeremy Kelley took a look at 11 of those education-related vetoes and got some big names to help him make sense of the original intent of the language and the effect of the vetoes.
Gadfly Bites 7/3/17 - The truth is often found in surprising places
Jeff MurrayThe Dispatch published an interesting piece this weekend discussing the lack of district superintendents who are female and people of color in Ohio.