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Gadfly Bites 7/16/21—It will be different
Officials with Akron City Schools tell the ABJ that they “learned a lot about online learning since March 2020”.
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Poolside potpourri: Ohio’s AP opportunity gaps, a new charter ranking, and fresh national data
With the state budget bill on the books, most loyal Gadfly readers have more time to kick back and read something other than legislation. Here’s a synopsis of a few recent reports that caught my eye. Ohio has one of the nation’s largest AP opportunity gaps
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Gadfly Bites 7/14/21—Fair(ly confusing) School Funding Plan
As we have noted in these Bites since the passage of the state budget bill, the cold light of day is a strong antidote to formerly red hot rhetoric. It also seems to induce some caveat emptor vibes as well.
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Gadfly Bites 7/12/21—Easy peasy
The powers that be in Youngstown City Schools—all of them—seem to be looking forward to the day that local control will be fully re-established in the distri
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Gadfly Bites 7/7/21—False choices
Fordham’s data guru Aaron Churchill was quoted in this piece looking at the changes ahead for school and district report cards
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Gadfly Bites 7/2/21—Jumping
Following on from our theme on Wednesday, perhaps it’s not just the amount of time one takes to absorb new information that matters in terms of response. Perhaps it is natural inclination as well.
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Gadfly Bites 6/30/21—“We should have known…”
In case you missed it, the state budget bill passed out of the legislature very late in the day on Monday.
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Gadfly Bites 6/28/21—When the stars collide
In case you missed it late in the day on Friday, House Bill 82 passed out of the General Assembly. Among other things, the bill contains a serious revamp of school and district report cards.
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Gadfly Bites 6/25/21—A bumper crop of irony six years in the making
Fordham-provided stats are referenced in the piece on the status of a school funding revamp currently included in the state budget bill.
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Gadfly Bites 6/23/21—Bristles
It is truly an unusual situation when the good folks at Gongwer use an evocative, emotional word like “bristle” in a headline. Must mean it’s budget season and some folks don’t like what they’re seeing in the tea leaves.
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Gadfly Bites 6/21/21—The good old summer time
Lots of folks worried about a decline in student enrollment last year and what it might mean for the future. Oh. Sorry.
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Gadfly Bites 6/18/21—“They’re back on their own…”
On Wednesday, we covered some sobering data about economic segregation in Ohio’s education system, including interdistrict open enrollment.
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Gadfly Bites 6/16/21—“It’s a tuba thang, shorty.”
Fordham’s Aaron Churchill is one among several of the advocates quoted in this piece applauding the school choice-friendly aspects of the Senate’s budget bill. Naturally.
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Gadfly Bites 6/14/21—The future might be now
A blog by Fordham’s Jessica Poiner is quoted in this piece, looking at the state budget bill’s provisions to expand computer science education.
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Gadfly Bites 6/11/21—Off point
The state budget bill remains the story of the week. In case you missed it, the Senate passed their version of the bill and the House refused to concur in the changes thereunto. Thus setting up a conference committee.
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Gadfly Bites 6/9/21—Direct routes
In case you missed it, the Senate Finance Committee voted out their version of the budget bill—amended before approval—moving it on to the full Senate for a vote.
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Gadfly Bites 6/4/21—What a difference a month makes
Sometimes this clips gig is fun; sometimes it lands somewhere south of that.
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Gadfly Bites 6/2/21—The rubber hits the road
Our own Jessica Poiner had an op-ed published in the Enquirer last week arguing for keeping Ohio’s universal college admissions testing requirement.
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Gadfly Bites 5/28/21—Worthy of note
Back in September in these very Bites, we were cheering because Lima private school Golden Bridge Academy was on the grow and moving to a new and prominent location on the town square. What was not, apparently, worthy of note in that piece at the time was that the school was changing its name and “going public”!
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Gadfly Bites 5/26/21—“I was skeptical... And it caused me to dig deeper into my data.”
Only one clip of note today, but that’s OK. I’m still resting up from Monday’s exertions. Plus, this is a weirdly interesting one.
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Gadfly Bites 5/24/21—Perhaps they are referring to the party game?
This headline, as with almost every legislation-related headline that includes it, misuses the term “limbo” in referencing the topic of education funding reform. (13ABC News, Toledo, 5/22/21)
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Gadfly Bites 5/21/21—No thanks for the memories
Those of you with good memories will no doubt recall that eligibility criteria for the state’s Quality Charter School funding was a source of some discussion in 2019 and 2020.
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Gadfly Bites 5/19/21—“Our kids have never been where they need to be.”
While we heard on Monday about how far behind Columbus City Schools’ seniors are, here is a positive “beyond-the-pod” story where we learn a lot about another church-affiliated non-profit doing the work of tutoring, supporti
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Gadfly Bites 5/17/21—Some…weirdness
Several odd stories in the news since Friday. First up: some community members in Tipp City are on a crusade to remove certain elected school board members due to what they say is a decline in the “quality of education and overall health” of the district.
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Gadfly Bites 5/14/21 – STEM-tastic!
Gadfly Bites is back from vacation. Hope you missed me as much as I missed you!
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Gadfly Bites 5/10/21 – The waitlist
Gadfly Bites will be on vacation Wednesday. Back with more fun on Friday.
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Gadfly Bites 5/5/21 – Laser focus
I must admit that I didn’t read or watch yesterday’s budget testimony in the Senate Primary and Secondary Education Committee yesterday. (I’ll be sure to be watching today, though, boss.
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Gadfly Bites 5/3/21 – “Mask-erade” indeed.
While Fordham’s own Chad Aldis notes a couple of positive aspects of the current school funding revamp which is now stuffed into the s
