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Gadfly Bites 2/13/26—No Duh-adjacent

Jeff Murray
2.13.2026
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  1. Just as I find the state’s questioning of why they should keep providing unfettered funding to districts who turn around and give that money to lawyers in order to sue the state a subject for own my personal No Duh file, so too do I find the voucher grouchers (esq) whom that money has supported for years vowing to fight a legislative effort to shut off the spigot also falls into that category. (Dayton Daily News, 2/13/26)

  2. I was a little surprised by this piece at first—in which a former elected school board member from New Albany opines that Columbus City Schools is “too broken and too adrift from its primary academic purpose” to continue as is—but now that I read his prescription to break the state’s largest school district down into four or five smaller, separate districts, I feel like I should place it right up next to my No Duh file for the moment. (Columbus Dispatch, 2/12/26)

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Tags: Columbus City Schools New Albany

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 and lives in the Clintonville neighborhood with his wife.

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