Recent charter school stories clear signal for better accountability
A recent flurry of news about Ohio charter schools makes a strong case for clearer lines of charter school accountability in the Buckeye State.
A recent flurry of news about Ohio charter schools makes a strong case for clearer lines of charter school accountability in the Buckeye State.
Last Saturday, the Columbus Dispatch ran an op-ed by Fordham Institute policy and research analyst Jamie Davies O’Leary about the growing trend of states incorporating teacher performance into evaluations.
Ohio offers multiple options for high-school students to earn free college credit, but these pathways remain a mystery to most families and high schoolers. KidsOhio, School Choice Ohio, and the Columbus Urban League have teamed up to produce a simple, informative brochure to help students and their families understand their options for “jumpstarting” their college careers.
Is school choice a genie you can put back into the bottle? The Dayton Public School District wants to try.
From Ball State University comes the latest report, Charter School Funding: Inequity Persists, which measures the extent to which states demonstrate funding fairness toward charter schools.
Annie E. Casey FoundationMay 2010
Reading scores for Cleveland’s fourth and eighth graders on the National Assessment of Educational Progress’s (NAEP) Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) aren’t much better than the
Nobody is satisfied with the academic performance of the schools serving Ohio's poor, urban youngsters ? and nobody should be. In the 2008-09 school year, almost half of the quarter million students in the state's ?Big 8? cities attended schools rated ?D? or ?F? by the state.
There's an important new report out today confirming what Fordham first helped unearth in 2005, and what charter school supporters and leaders have long known: public charters receive less funding than do district schools, by a wide margin
?I'm not anti-union; I'm not anti-teacher. I'm anti-our-children-not-getting-a-good-education.? ? Kevin Johnson, Mayor of Sacramento
This summer, I'm heading north to Trenton to become the Deputy Commissioner of Education for the state of New Jersey.?Though I'm sad to leave my home state of Maryland and the DC ed reform co