Chad Aldis and the Fordham Institute make up part of the “balance” in this story, which is otherwise all-in for the school funding revamp currently included in the state budget.
Brunswick City Schools recently celebrated its third “clean audit” award over the last seven years, bestowed by the Auditor of State.
I am honestly not sure how any school district is in financial hardship at the moment, given the Covid-relief largesse sluicing in, but it appears that Mansfield City Schools is in such a state and its elected board duly finalized a cost-saving plan last week intended to get the district out of that
With apologies to Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, today’s clips all hail from Suburbia.
Fordham’s Chad Aldis provided opponent testimony on HB 200 in committee yesterday.
Here is a look at more “summer school” pandemic remediation plans in school districts across central Ohio.
There is no author attributed to this commentary piece regarding school report card reform options (and school funding and several other things) so I have no idea who to thank for
We start out today with a great, in-depth look back at this school year as experienced in
The editors at Vindy.com seem preoccupied with Ohio’s lowly ranking in a recent WalletHub report on return on taxpayer investment in education.
There appears to be a difference of opinion among several of the elected school board members in charge of Wellington Exempted Village Schools if this piece is any indication.
Fordham’s Aaron Churchill gives Cleveland.com a history lesson in this piece, explaining how school funding has changed, and how subsequen
Hey! Have you heard of this brand new media outlet called The Week?! I stumbled across it in my searching for clips for you, loyal subscribers, and I have to assume that it’s brand new (despite what its masthead would suggest).
In case you didn’t know, dedicated Gadfly Bites subscribers, your humble clips compiler is the quintessential “old dog”. As such, acquisition of “new tricks” is something of a challenge.
School attendance is compulsory for K–12 students, but getting kids to school every day is often difficult for families. Most parents want their children to attend school. But for those living in poverty, competing needs like jobs, medical appointments, and sibling care sometimes render school a lower priority.
Perhaps Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock had it wrong all those years ago?
Maybe y’all saw this? Apparently Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Eric Gordon participated on some national panel with U.S. Ed Sec Cardona this week about school reopening.
Somehow, I don't think Bay Village City Schools is going to be submitting much of a remediation plan to Governor DeWine by the April 1 deadline.
Here’s another story that strives to answer the question “How awesome are pandemic learning pods?” Unfortunately for the way my brain wor
Fordham is namechecked in this piece on the passage of HB 67 out of the General Assembly earlier this week.
As we noted here in the Bites last Friday, there is a legislative effort clanking to life which would, if successful, pretty well gut Ohio’s
Bougie Wyoming City Schools in suburban Cincinnati hit the big time with this lengthy feature in the Wall Street Journ
Today marks one year since Governor DeWine announced schools would close in response to the oncoming coronavirus pandemic and lots of media outlets are jumping on the “one year later” bandwagon with some doom, a whole lot of gloom, a shot at lessons learned, and a ton of enlightening anecdotes.
According the good folks at Cleveland.com, a deal was reached and CMSD teachers are supposed to be back in their classrooms today, finally starting
As I write this, your humble clips compiler has not seen anything to indicate what’s happening in Cleveland Metropolitan School District classrooms this morning, but absent any news to the contrary, one assumes that union teachers held to their previous statement and stayed home as they promised they
In case you missed it all, the amended version of HB 67 we previewed on Monday was heard and voted out of its House
Some testimony was heard in the legislature this week on the latest version of a school funding overhaul bill, including from our own Chad Aldis.
I include this piece in the clips today due to the fact that data from Fordham’s fantastic Ohio By the Numbers annually-update trove of vital education information is used within it.
Here’s a bit more coverage of Chad’s testimony—and that of Ohio Excels’ Lisa Gray—given this week in support of conducting testing this sp
In case you missed it, late on Monday the U.S. Department of Education announced that it would not be offering testing waivers to states for this school year.
