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Gadfly Bites 1/31/24—Not enough pizza in the world
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Cash incentives to curb chronic absenteeism are worth a try
Last year, 27 percent of Ohio students were chronically absent, meaning they missed more than 10 percent of the school year for any reason.
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Gadfly Bites 1/29/24—Increasing darkness
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Gadfly Bites 1/26/24—“If need be”
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Gadfly Bites 1/24/24—No education
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Gadfly Bites 1/22/24—Refurbished and ready to grow
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Gadfly Bites 1/19/24—Paradoxical or just ironic?
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Gadfly Bites 1/17/24—Go to school like it’s your job!
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Gadfly Bites 1/12/24—No, it’s just good news
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Gadfly Bites 1/10/24—Sewage overload is already happening
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Gadfly Bites 1/8/24—She says, he says, she says
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Gadfly Bites 1/5/24—The future
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Policymakers must remember that micromanaging schools is typically a suboptimal strategy
Powerful incentives compel policymakers to micromanage public organizations by imposing stifling directives, rules, and procedures, sometimes rendering those organizations rigid and ineffective. The incentive to micromanage tends to become stronger as political attention and conflict increase, and as our trust in government declines.
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Gadfly Bites 1/3/24—Eyebrow raisers
Welcome back to our first edition of 2024. Sorry you didn’t have anything better to do on January 2 than this.
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Predicting the top Ohio education issues for 2024
It’s the start of another year, and that means it’s time for us at the Ohio Gadfly to predict what awaits in the next twelve months. In light of last year’s historic budget bill, there’s plenty on the agenda.
