Skip to main content

Mobile Navigation

  • National
    • Policy
      • High Expectations
      • Quality Choices
      • Personalized Pathways
    • Research
    • Commentary
      • Gadfly Newsletter
      • Gadfly Podcast
      • Flypaper Blog
      • Events
    • Covid-19
    • Scholars Program
  • Ohio
    • Policy
      • Priorities
      • Media & Testimony
    • Research
    • Commentary
      • Ohio Education Gadfly Biweekly
      • Ohio Gadfly Daily
  • Charter Authorizing
    • Application
    • Sponsored Schools
    • Resources
    • Our Work in Dayton
  • About
    • Mission
    • Board
    • Staff
    • Career
Home
Home
Advancing Educational Excellence

Main Navigation

  • National
  • Ohio
  • Charter Authorizing
  • About

Ohio Menu

  • Policy
    • Priorities
    • Media & Testimony
  • Research
  • Commentary
    • Ohio Education Gadfly Biweekly
    • Ohio Gadfly Daily
    • Events
Ohio Gadfly Daily

Gadfly Bites 1/24/22—Even the definition of “flexible” is not stable in a pandemic.

Jeff Murray
1.24.2022
Gadfly Bites
  1. I said I wasn’t likely to clip stories about schools opening/closing/going remote unless they were excessively interesting to me. This one qualifies. Pickerington City Schools in suburban central Ohio has created a new plan to deal with staff shortages due to the pandemic. It’s called “Flexible Learning 3.0” and it works like this: when staffing shortages for K-6 classes reach whatever is the threshold for “too many” (undefined in this piece), the district’s junior high and high school students will go to virtual instruction and “staff members from the 7-12 buildings who don't have classroom obligations” (again, how many?) will be assigned to K-6 buildings that have staffing shortages and will provide instruction to those students. The idea is that big kids can handle remote learning. “They are expected to be in class and there will be a teacher on the other side of the camera delivering instruction”. The supe calls it “a plan that helps our most vulnerable students stay in school.” All I can think to say is: wonder what 1.0 and 2.0 were like? (ThisWeek News, 1/20/22)
     
  2. In celebration of National School Choice Week, take a look at the first school choice fair ever held in West Virginia. Yeah yeah, I know it’s still up to a court to decide if any of those charter choices will actually exist next year, but I for one admire the optimism. (WCHS-TV, Charleston, WV, 1/22/22)

Did you know you can have every edition of Gadfly Bites sent directly to your Inbox? Subscribe by clicking here.

Policy Priority:
School Funding
Topics:
Governance

Jeff Murray is a lifelong resident of central Ohio. He previously worked at School Choice Ohio and the Greater Columbus Arts Council. He has two degrees from the Ohio State University. He lives in the Clintonville neighborhood with his wife and twin daughters. He is proud every day to support the Fordham mission to help make excellent education options more numerous and more readily available for families and…

View Full Bio

Sign Up to Receive Fordham Updates

We'll send you quality research, commentary, analysis, and news on the education issues you care about.
Thank you for signing up!
Please check your email to confirm the subscription.

Related Content

view
High Expectations

The excellence gap and underrepresentation at America’s most selective universities

Michael J. Petrilli 5.19.2022
NationalFlypaper
view
High Expectations

“What do you mean, ‘proficient’?” The saga of NAEP achievement levels

Chester E. Finn, Jr. 5.19.2022
NationalFlypaper
view
High Expectations

Evidence, struggling math students, and California’s 2022 math framework

Tom Loveless 5.19.2022
NationalFlypaper
Fordham Logo

© 2020 The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Privacy Policy
Usage Agreement

National

1016 16th St NW, 8th Floor 
Washington, DC 20036

202.223.5452

[email protected]

  • <
Ohio

P.O. Box 82291
Columbus, OH 43202

614.223.1580

[email protected]

Sponsorship

130 West Second Street, Suite 410
Dayton, Ohio 45402

937.227.3368

[email protected]