Fordham’s new policy brief by Adam Emerson, “Governance in the Charter School Sector: Time for a Reboot,” tackles the governance issue head-on.
This Q&A with T.J. Wallace, the executive director for Dayton Liberty Academies, is the sixth of our seven-part series on school leadership.
The Fordham Institute has been engaged in a wide range of conversations recently, ranging from gifted-student education to Common Core to charter school quality.
Virtually no accountability measures exist in most of the nation’s special-education voucher programs, including the largest such program in the United States, Florida’s McKay Scholarship for Students with Disabilities
Senate Bill 243, while a step in the right direction, does not go far enough
Terry Ryan was a guest of the Ohio League of Women Voters today during their annual Statehouse Day, participating in a panel session on education funding in Ohio with Dr. William Phillis, Executive Director of The Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding.
Strong authorizers can improve charter school quality
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) publishes an annual report that collects self-reported survey data from authorizers, which indicate the extent to which they comply with the “Index of Essential Practices.”
Whatever happens next, and however disappointing that litigation may be, at least the Alabama Supreme Court corrected what was a mockery of the legislative process
A five-city, cross-state comparison of charter school quality
The definitive story of New Orleans school reform
A fierce school-choice debate rages in Alabama—but the threat to the Common Core standards has receded, for now.
Farce doesn’t even begin to describe it
Conducted jointly by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Public Impact, the new research study Searching for Excellence: A Five-City, Cross-State Comparison of Charter School Quality sheds light on charter performance — in Albany, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, and Indianapolis.
The AEA decided to lawyer up before Alabama's new tax-credit law even reached the governor’s desk
Sibling rivalry
Alabama teacher unions and school boards have, for now, defeated what should be the state's first private school choice plan
Mathematica Policy Research released report about student performance of those who attend KIPP middle schools
Yesterday was the first day of public testimony on Governor Kasich’s budget proposal before the Ohio House Finance Primary and Secondary Education Committee.
With the results from this latest CREDO study, it’s clearer now than ever that lawmakers should lift the state's cap on charters
With just a few hours left before automatic, across-the-board federal budget cuts take effect, the odds seem slim that Congress will pull a rabbit out of this hat.
Even charter opponents agree: There’s no explaining away these results
When then-Governor Ted Strickland issued his Evidence-Based Model (EBM) of school funding reform in 2009 we engaged Professor Paul Hill to provide an analysis of the proposals. We couldn’t think of anyone better to do the work than Professor Hill. His credentials are impeccable.
Student mobility is an ongoing cycle within Ohio school districts
Comments about Mayor Coleman's State of the City address
In a futile effort to counter the influence of test-preparation companies, New York City’s education department changed part of the test it administers to four-year-olds to determine whether or not they are
A glimpse into competition among schools and performance ratings
Ohio's charter schools have an excellent model in place for regular enrollment checks and this model should be followed by public school districts.
Unfortunately, this event has been canceled.
The senator, immediately after his Republican response to the president's State of the Union address, released a far-reaching federal school-choice plan
