Gadfly Bites 9/20/23—DEW or DEW not
How’d the first day of actual school go in Youngstown this week? Or even the second? No one in the local press seems to care since the teachers union is happy with the deal they won, so I have no idea.
How’d the first day of actual school go in Youngstown this week? Or even the second? No one in the local press seems to care since the teachers union is happy with the deal they won, so I have no idea.
The negative impacts of chronic absenteeism are well known. In elementary school, truancy can contribute to weaker math and reading skills that persist into later grades.
The Youngstown teacher strike seems to be over after a tentative agreeme
In case you somehow missed it, state report cards were released yesterday.
Looks like someone’s been listening to Fordham’s Aaron Churchill, who has been advocating for including party labels for candidates on local school board ballots for many years, with lots of great analysis backing it up.
It’s September and that means fall elections are coming soon. Not that election—the presidential is still more than twelve months away—but local school board races are right around the corner.
Gongwer covered the news of the massive parental response to expanded EdChoice voucher eligibility.
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At the same time that the number of degree earners in the U.S.
Approximately 7 hours of talks on both Wednesday and Thursday between Youngstown teach
Today, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute announced that Dr. Stéphane Lavertu will join the Institute as a Senior Research Fellow. Dr.
Contract talks are to resume in Youngstown this afternoon.
Back from a little vacation. Sorry (for you) that’s it’s over!
The recently completed state budget includes historic education provisions that could have a tremendous impact on students and families.
A busier-than-usual weekend in a couple of northeast Ohio hotspots, it seems.
There’s not a whole lot about actual teaching and learning involved in this
It’s always something, isn’t it? This year’s new favorite “kids can’t learn if…” boogieman is cellphones.
As we have previously established, Dayton City Schools’ new interim superintendent is in full Bob the Builder mode, moving at warp speed to tackle literally anything he deems in need of fixing in his district, starting at
Some nice words for Ohio in this opinion piece written by the Senior Vice President of the Commonwealth Foundation in Pennsylvania.
Only one clip today, but I think it’s great that this one stands on its own…for a lot of reasons.
There are a lot of words in this piece (nearly 2,900 of them) talking in the most negative possible terms about state takeovers of chronically-underperforming districts and schools.
This is the article that every Columbus school parent has been waiting for: Asking the question
A recent headline in Education Week suggested that mayoral control is a “fading school reform.” The piece noted the impending transition to an elected school board in Chicago, as well as efforts in Boston to wrest co
Fox News and several other national entities covered the I Promise School story we talked about on Friday.
One more post-budget story? Sure thing!
I’m going to go out on a limb to suggest that Dr. David Lawrence has harbored the ambition to lead Dayton City Schools for quite a while now.
Traditional district schools have become providers of many services and benefits for students. The list is nearly endless, but includes food provision (both in school and on weekends/summer break), athletics, the arts, computer and tech education, medical care, summer camps, and counseling.
While initial responses to the state budget focused mainly on voucher expansion and third grade retention for last year’s kiddos, we’re several weeks into the new biennium now and the reality of changes to be realized on