Gadfly Bites 10/5/20 – Luckily…
In Cincinnati, some of the district’s whipsawed parents speak. (Spectrum News 1, 10/5/20)
In Cincinnati, some of the district’s whipsawed parents speak. (Spectrum News 1, 10/5/20)
Another day, another raft of evidence that parents looking for certainty are well and truly hosed.
For some reason meeting on a Saturday, the elected board of Dayton City Schools unanimously approved a phased-in plan to bring students back for a
Here’s an in-depth look at the first month of the school year at Xenia’s St. Brigid School.
Aren’t search engines great? With them, one can search for an important name (say, Aaron Churchill) and sometimes find references to that name in new places.
It’s Wednesday, and that means the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee will be hearing testimony today. One of the bills up for debate: SB 358. That’s the one that would, among other things, extend a moratorium on state testing from last school year to this one.
Be cool, man! The boss is in town.
In case you missed it earlier this week, Fordham’s Chad Aldis testified before th
“I just think it’s not a terribly appropriate time to be [measuring districts].
I’m not sure this piece reads as entirely objective journalism, but perhaps that’s because it is unusual to see
The Dispatch editorial board giveth… (Columbus Dispatch, 9/10/20) …and
Here’s a look at how schools in Montgomery County say they will address “the Covid slide” among their students.
We have heard a bit about school districts having trouble accessing enough laptops fo
Pretty darn quiet around here these days. To wit: we have just one clip for today.
We’ll start this week with another one of those detailed looks at the school choices being made by parents to get the best education for their children in light of
From an unlikely source comes this fantastic and very thorough look at families exercising school choice in response to the realities of a pandemic-influenced 2020-2021 s
We’re back on the clips beat from our Monday break. Lots to catch up on, so let’s go.
We’ll start today with one of the more bizarre stories to come down the pike in a while.
Back at the end of July, we talked about a Cincinnati area doctor who said that face shields were the best for ensuring safe in-person teaching. Especially these ones he designed back in the SARS era.
We start this week with a follow up from Friday’s Bites.
I could be the teensiest bit biased here, but this is my favorite of the school reopening plans I have read about so far.
Fordham’s Chad Aldis is quoted in this coverage of a new report aimed at providing a roadmap for Ohio to increase the percentage of adults who have completed a postsecondary ce
All y’all know that we love positive charter school stories here at the Bites.
Following Wednesday’s voting/territory transfer story, we return you to
While this is a story about the fall reopening plans for Par Excellence Academy in Newark, that is not the point I wish to focus on for the purposes of these clips.
In case you were wondering, Big Walnut High School’s super spreader event in-person graduation happened as scheduled on July 25.
Weeks of questions, concerns, protests, and petitions over Dayton City Schools’ disastrous transportation scheme f
We start today with what could likely end up being News of the Moot.
In the discussion of whether and how to reopen schools in the fall, the spotlight falls (sort of) on private schools in central Ohio.
We’ll start today with some unequivocal good news.