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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.26.21

Chad L. Aldis Jeff Murray
3.26.2021
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Toledo transportation changes move forward

Toledo City Schools’ board of education voted to approve a new contract for student transportation for next school year. More details need to be worked out, but the private, third-party provider will likely be tasked primarily with transporting charter and private school students residing in the district’s borders to their school of choice.

“We need bold, innovative solutions”

The Executive Director of Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., published an op-ed in the Washington Post this week expressing the urgency of, and providing several suggestions for, schools in all sectors working together to help combat Covid-influenced learning loss. An important message.

Imperative

To help districts and charter school networks nationwide kick-start their remediation efforts, the Fordham Institute this week unveiled a project called The Acceleration Imperative. It is “an open-source, evidence-based document created with input from dozens of current and former chief academic officers, scholars, and others with deep expertise and experience in high-performing, high-poverty elementary schools.” The goal is to crowdsource and to share widely plans that really work to help our youngest students catch up quickly after a year of disruption.

Rising tide

Fordham’s president also took to the pages of The Hill this week to urge educators, parents, policymakers, and the general public to embrace the growing body of high-quality research showing that charter school expansion helps boost all students and schools.

Two new research reports

Two new reports highlight different aspects of charter school quality. The first comes from CREDO and looks at one city—Newark, NJ—where students in charters showed strong gains in both math and reading achievement over a three year study period. The second comes from the University of Arkansas and looks at school choice generally across the United States, finding that “a strong and statistically significant association is clear between [choice] and both academic scores and academic gains” for students. We urge you to dig into both reports for more details.

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Chad Aldis joined the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in 2013 and is the institute’s Vice President for Ohio Policy. In this role, Chad plans and leads Fordham’s Ohio policy, advocacy, and research agenda. He represents the Institute in its work with state and local policy makers, the media, other education reform groups, and the public.

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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…

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