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Gadfly Bites 6/14/24—Money to burn
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Gadfly Bites 6/12/24—You ain’t seen nothing yet
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A closer look at how Ohio fared on Strada’s State Opportunity Index
Over the last few years, Ohio leaders have focused on improving education-to-workforce pathways through a variety of
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Gadfly Bites 6/10/24—Play the hits!
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Gadfly Bites 6/7/24—How to
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Gadfly Bites 6/5/24—Some good news, some bad news, and some silliness
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Ohio’s school funding formula is hurting open enrollment
Changes to the way districts are funded when they accept open enrolled students from outside their borders threatens to shrink a popular and important public school choice program. This longstanding option must remain widely available and robust.
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Gadfly Bites 5/31/24—Maybe it IS a culture thing
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Gadfly Bites 5/29/24—If we really want to compare apples to apples…
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Gadfly Bites 5/24/24—The narrative
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Give Ohio teachers control over their own retirement
The soap opera at the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS), the entity that manages Ohio’s teacher pensions, has made non-stop headlines of late.
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Gadfly Bites 5/22/24—Ohio shows the world
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Gadfly Bites 5/15/24—PR time
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Ohio needs to fix its method for counting and funding low-income students
This is second in a series where I examine issues in K–12 education that Ohio leaders should tackle in the next biennial state budget.
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Gadfly Bites 5/13/24—Funhouse mirror vibes
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Gadfly Bites 5/10/24—The learning phase
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Gadfly Bites 5/8/24—96 Tears
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Gadfly Bites 5/6/24—Go shout it from the mountaintop
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Gadfly Bites 5/3/24—“Do the best you can with the cards you’ve been dealt.”
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Gadfly Bites 5/1/24—Leader of the pack
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When public schools keep certain students out—or make them pay to attend
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Gadfly Bites 4/29/24—It’s all-STEM all the time in my brain
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Gadfly Bites 4/24/24—YIKBY
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With his state of the state address, DeWine seeks to build on previous accomplishments
In early April, Governor DeWine delivered the second state of the state address of his second term.
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Gadfly Bites 4/22/24—Connecting the dots
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Gadfly Bites 4/19/24—Film festival
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Education priorities for Ohio’s next biennial budget, part 1: Sustained investment for literacy reform
Ohio regularly creates and funds major education policies in a two-year biennial budget, so it’s never too early to start thinking about the 2025 cycle. This is the first of several posts where I’ll discuss issues that should be on lawmakers’ radars as they gear up.
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Gadfly Bites 4/17/24—Novelty, solvency, quality
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Gadfly Bites 4/12/24—Unassuaged
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Impacts of interdistrict school choice in Boston
The Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) began in the mid-1960s as a direct result of school desegregation efforts in Boston.
