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Gadfly Bites 10/30/19 – “Where we were wasn’t working very well.”
Only two pieces of Bites-worthy news today. First up, from the Is Nothing Sacred?
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Gadfly Bites 10/28/19 – To function and thrive in the world
As we have discussed regularly in the Bites over the last five years, there is a fiscal analogue to the state’s efforts at academic oversight in school districts.
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Gadfly Bites 10/25/19 – More arguments
As noted on Wednesday, arguments were heard before the Ohio Supreme Court (sitting in remote Montpelier, Ohio) on the constitutionality of HB 70, the law which created Ohio’s current CEO-st
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So far, LeBron’s I Promise School is keeping its promise
Last year, NBA superstar LeBron James opened I Promise School (IPS), a school for at-risk kids in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. In its first year (2018–19), IPS served 240 students in grades three and four.
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Gadfly Bites 10/23/19 – Systemically scandalous
Wow. It’s not often we get to welcome brand new media outlets to the family. But the closure of the Youngstown Vindicator really did bring out the next tier of journalistic endeavors, didn’t it?
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Gadfly Bites 10/21/19 – Charge it, please, and thank you very much!
Call it the Ghost of Gatehouse Past.
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Gadfly Bites 10/18/19 – Pay now or pay later, your choice
We start today with another heartwarming story of a suburban teen entrepreneur. Seventeen-year-old Will Feldman of Bexley runs a business called pausecircleplay.
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Gadfly Bites 10/16/19 – The game is afoot! Isn’t it?
The line of demarcation between the board and the teachers of Columbus City Schools was sharply drawn at yesterday’s school board meeting.
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Gadfly Bites 10/14/19 – What to do?
So your district got a report card grade that reflects badly on you you didn’t like. What can you do? For Fairfield City Schools in Butler County, the answer is take a temperature check.
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Gadfly Bites 10/11/19 – Poetry
I might be wrong, but I think there’s some big political event coming up here in central Ohio soon. How else to explain today’s dueling editorials in the Dispatch, both aimed squarely at addressing national political rhetoric.
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Gadfly Bites 10/9/19 – Oversight
Here is a nice profile of Haugland Learning Center in Sandusky, Ohio, a school dedicated to teaching students on the autism spectrum and those with developmental disabilities.
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Gadfly Bites 10/7/19 – And some privilege and some insularity too
We start the week with a personal column in the Marion Times written by a dad who also happens to be a member of the paper
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Gadfly Bites 10/4/19 – “This sends a message we may not want to send”
Fordham’s Chad Aldis—my boss, a stand-up guy, my direct supervisor, super smart, and did I mention he’s in charge around here?—has been having a recent run of very bad luck when it comes to being quoted in Ohio newspapers. Not because he’s not on the ball or not saying really smart stuff.
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Gadfly Bites 10/2/19 – Audacity
What is a curmudgeonly education news clips compiler to do when two of his most regular sources of questionable reasoning oppose one another on the pages of a major daily newspaper?
