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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 4.11.25
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Ohio budget update
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 4.4.25
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. A sad update
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Interested party testimony on Senate Bill 127
NOTES: Today, the Ohio Senate Education Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 127, which would make changes to the way in which low-performing public schools are identified and how the state intervenes when scho
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Nixing inflated fourth grade promotion rates will strengthen accountability for early literacy
It’s no secret that improving early literacy has been Governor DeWine’s hallmark education passion.
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.28.25
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Dollars and (common) sense
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.21.25
There was so much news over our break that we needed two editions to cover it all!
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Ohio Charter News Weekly special edition – 3.20.25
Welcome to a special Thursday edition of Ohio Charter News Weekly. We’re back after three weeks’ break, with this edition covering Ohio-specific news published between 3/3/25 and 3/20/25. We’ll be back again tomorrow with a national catch-up.
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Governor DeWine keeps the momentum going for Ohio charter schools
During his terms in office, Governor Mike DeWine has been a strong supporter of public charter schools.
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 2.28.25
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Update
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 2.21.25
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Charter school awesomeness
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 2.14.25
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Governor DeWine speaks about his education priorities
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A close look at Cleveland’s NAEP scores
In 2012, Governor John Kasich signed legislation enabling the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) to implement a city-wide school turnaround plan.
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Ohio’s struggling students are slipping even further behind
Last week, the U.S. Department of Education released data from the 2024 round of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 2.7.25
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 1.31.25
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Heading to SCOTUS
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Fordham Institute media statement on 2024 Ohio NAEP scores
Today, the United States Department of Education released data from the 2024 round of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the “Nation’s Report Card.” These assessments are given to a representative sample of students from every state and provides one of the most comprehensive looks at student ach
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 1.24.25
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 1.17.25
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 1.10.25
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. New year
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 1.3.25
This is the first edition of Ohio Charter News to be published in 2025, covering relevant news stories from the final weeks of 2024. Next week, we will have the first news of the new year.
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 12.20.24
This is the last edition of Ohio Charter News to be published in 2024. Thank you for reading and subscribing. We will return on Friday, January 3 to catch up with the final clips of this year.
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 12.13.24
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Ten years of steady growth
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Testimony provided on Substitute Senate Bill 295—12/10/24
NOTE: Today, the Ohio Senate Education Committee heard testimony on Substitute Senate Bill 295 which proposes substantive changes to the closure requirements for public schools across the state.
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 12.6.24
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The value of online user reviews to school choice parents
Helping parents evaluate their educational options is an important component to effective implementation of school choice policies. Giving them more and better information from which to compare options will likely become essential if choice continues to proliferate.
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2024 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report
Our 2023-24 Sponsorship Annual Report details our work providing monitoring, oversight, and technical assistance to ten schools across sixteen campuses that served approximately 6,300 students in Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Portsmouth, Ohio.
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Will Ohio’s revamped post-secondary readiness measure have sufficient rigor?
A new rating system for student readiness is nearly completed and could be part of Ohio's school report cards next year. However, we recommend some improvements before it is fully rolled out.
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 11.22.24
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Columbus transportation concerns may escalate
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How low-performing school identification changed from the NCLB to ESSA era
In 2001, Congress enacted No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the much-discussed statute that, among other things, required states to identify their lowest-performing schools and help them improve. In 2015, in an effort to address perceived problems with NCLB, lawmakers revised the law into its current form, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 11.15.24
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. One final post-election news story
