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Gadfly Bites 11/27/19 – Trends
Folks in Lorain are keeping their eyes firmly on the future, it seems.
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Gadfly Bites 11/25/19 – Treasurers say the darnedest things
I hate to be an old I Told Ya So, but it seems that Dayton City Schools’ plan to boost student attendance by spending massively on public transportation has moved the ne
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Gadfly Bites 11/22/19 – When families don’t buy what you’re selling
As expected, Plain Local Schools is going to court—federal court—to stop a new state law which makes it easier for property owners in the district to win a rezoning request to join
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Gadfly Bites 11/20/19 – Swimming in money, drowning in debt
I’m not sure I follow all the arguments here, but let me see if I can summarize.
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Gadfly Bites 11/18/19 – Two thumbs down
This is an editorial which exonerates the Lorain school board and every other area official and meddling rando who obstructed David Hardy’s work a
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Gadfly Bites 11/15/19 – If that’s what you get for boosting a report card…
Ohio’s Report Card Study Committee met this week to talk turkey about all of the various parts making up school and district report cards.
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Gadfly Bites 11/13/19 – I promise this edition is worth your time
Only two clips today—both on the same subject. Both are fantastic. Both of them beg a question.
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Gadfly Bites 11/11/19 – Confirmation
Confirmed at last: College Credit Plus does save some kids money on college!
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Gadfly Bites 11/8/19 – The Youngstown Accords
In Youngstown, the elected school board and the mayor agreed that the process to replace the elected board, as called for in Ohio’s still-on-the-books-last-time-I-checked academic distress commission paradigm, would be o
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Gadfly Bites 11/6/19 – Just in case
State Senator Matt Huffman wants Ohio to be “first in line” for a federal private education choice matching program…if it ever actually happens. And last week he introduced legislation to get the ball rolling.
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The Cupp-Patterson plan: Lots more resources, no reform
Earlier this month, the Ohio House Finance Committee began hearings on a school funding plan crafted by Representatives Robert Cupp and John Patterson, along with a group
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Gadfly Bites 11/4/19 – It’s your choice, apparently
Thank heavens election day is tomorrow. I am heartily sick of all this campaign junk taking up space in Ohio’s news outlets.
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Gadfly Bites 11/1/19 – Hot in Cincinnati (and Cleveland too)
In case you had forgotten, there is a hotly contested race for school board in Cincinnati City Schools going on, and I mean “Cincinnati hot”. Thank heavens it will be over by this time next week.
