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Commentary
9.28.2023
Accountability & Testing

Here’s how ADC districts performed on state report cards

Jessica Poiner

Academic Distress Commissions (ADCs) have a long and controversial history in Ohio.

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Event
9.27.2023
Governance

Is Ohio on the Path to Educational Pluralism? Lessons from Around the World

Ohio has long been a pioneer in school choices for students and families.  It is home to one of the nation’s first private-school scholarship programs, focused on Cleveland.

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Commentary
9.27.2023
Accountability & Testing

Ohio’s urban district and charter school performance, 2022–23

Aaron Churchill

For more than two decades, Ohio’s school report cards have shed light on the strengths and weaknesses of the state’s public schools. This year’s report card is no different.

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Commentary
9.27.2023
Governance

Gadfly Bites 9/27/23—Penultimate

Jeff Murray

News stories featured in Gadfly Bites may require a paid subscription to read in full. Just sayin’.

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Commentary
9.25.2023
Curriculum & Instruction

Chronic absenteeism is making academic recovery harder in Ohio

Aaron Churchill

School report cards are out, and the results reveal the persistent challenges facing Ohio students in the aftermath of pandemic-era disruptions to education.

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Commentary
9.25.2023
Governance

Gadfly Bites 9/25/23—Antepenultimate

Jeff Murray

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Commentary
9.22.2023
Charter Schools

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.22.23

Jeff Murray

Roll the tape!

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Commentary
9.22.2023
Governance

Gadfly Bites 9/22/23—That thing you DEW

Jeff Murray

News stories featured in Gadfly Bites may require a paid subscription to read in full. Just sayin’.

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Commentary
9.20.2023
Governance

Gadfly Bites 9/20/23—DEW or DEW not

Jeff Murray

How’d the first day of actual school go in Youngstown this week? Or even the second? No one in the local press seems to care since the teachers union is happy with the deal they won, so I have no idea.

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Commentary
9.19.2023
Governance

As chronic absenteeism rates soar, some Ohio lawmakers want to make it easier for kids to skip school

Jessica Poiner

The negative impacts of chronic absenteeism are well known. In elementary school, truancy can contribute to weaker math and reading skills that persist into later grades.

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Commentary
9.18.2023
Accountability & Testing

2021 PIRLS test results starkly illustrate global learning loss

Jeff Murray

The first pandemic-influenced data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) test are in. Unsurprisingly, an initial analysis says the news is bad.

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Commentary
9.18.2023
Teachers & School Leaders

Ohio’s long and winding road back to where it started with novice teachers

Jessica Poiner

In 2011, Ohio lawmakers introduced a state initiative focused on new teachers—specifically, those who were in the first four years of their career.

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Commentary
9.18.2023
Governance

Gadfly Bites 9/18/23—It only takes one whammy to make families scramble for solutions

Jeff Murray

The Youngstown teacher strike seems to be over after a tentative agreeme

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Commentary
9.15.2023
Charter Schools

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.15.23

Jeff Murray

Lifelong values

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Commentary
9.15.2023
Governance

Gadfly Bites 9/15/23—Seems like all tortoise and no hare

Jeff Murray

In case you somehow missed it, state report cards were released yesterday.

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Commentary
9.14.2023
Accountability & Testing

Fordham Institute statement on Ohio’s school report cards

Ohio Education Gadfly

This morning, the Ohio Department of Education released its annual school report cards based on results from the 2022-23 school year. This year’s iteration makes clear that the impacts of the pandemic on student learning are still being felt, especially for students from less advantaged backgrounds.

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Commentary
9.13.2023
Curriculum & Instruction

Ohio Senate proposes much-needed tweaks to College Credit Plus

Jessica Poiner

During the 2015–16 school year, Ohio launched a revamped dual-enrollment program called College Credit Plus (CCP).

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Commentary
9.13.2023
Governance

Gadfly Bites 9/13/23—A “digestible” counterproposal?

Jeff Murray

Looks like someone’s been listening to Fordham’s Aaron Churchill, who has been advocating for including party labels for candidates on local school board ballots for many years, with lots of great analysis backing it up.

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Commentary
9.12.2023
Governance

Why Ohio’s school board elections should be on-cycle

Aaron Churchill

It’s September and that means fall elections are coming soon. Not that election—the presidential is still more than twelve months away—but local school board races are right around the corner.

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Commentary
9.11.2023
School Finance

The Great Recession offers insight about the impact the impending fiscal cliff will have on Ohio school districts

Stéphane Lavertu

Some Ohio public schools may be headed for a world of hurt.

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Commentary
9.11.2023
Governance

Gadfly Bites 9/11/23—School funding is a zero-sum game because we say it is

Jeff Murray

Gongwer covered the news of the massive parental response to expanded EdChoice voucher eligibility.

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Commentary
9.8.2023
Charter Schools

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.8.23

Jeff Murray

High on the list

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Commentary
9.8.2023
Governance

Gadfly Bites 9/8/23—A different kind of Friday the 13th; still pretty scary

Jeff Murray

OSU’s

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Commentary
9.6.2023
Governance

Gadfly Bites 9/6/23—Reality bites…and so do bats

Jeff Murray

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Commentary
9.5.2023
Accountability & Testing

Despite steady gains, much work remains on Ohio’s academic recovery

Vladimir Kogan

NOTE: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute occasionally publishes guest commentaries on its blogs. The views expressed by guest authors do not necessarily reflect those of Fordham.

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Commentary
9.5.2023
School Finance

A new state initiative could help districts address the bus driver shortage

Jessica Poiner

The start of a new school year means that big yellow school buses are back on the road. For many, they’re a welcome sign that a familiar routine has resumed. For others, they spark nostalgia. But for district and school administrators across Ohio, the sight of a yellow bus likely spurs stress and concern thanks to widespread bus driver shortages.

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Commentary
9.5.2023
Governance

Are college completion grants a no-incentive incentive?

Jeff Murray

At the same time that the number of degree earners in the U.S.

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Commentary
9.1.2023
Charter Schools

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.1.23

Jeff Murray

First first day

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Commentary
9.1.2023
Governance

Gadfly Bites 9/1/23—The circus is in town—all three rings of it

Jeff Murray

Approximately 7 hours of talks on both Wednesday and Thursday between Youngstown teach

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Commentary
8.31.2023
Career & Technical Education

Here’s how Governor DeWine and Ohio lawmakers expanded CTE access this legislative session

Jessica Poiner

Career and technical education (CTE) was a huge priority for Ohio lawmakers during the recent budget cycle.

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