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Gadfly Bites 12/16/20 – Always read to the end
Peter Greene gets a twofer in swiping at standardized testing and Ohio’s
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Gadfly Bites 12/14/20 – Fill! That! Room!!
Remember back before the pandemic when school districts were being overly cautious about the student wellness funding approved in the last biennial budget?
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Gadfly Bites 12/11/20 – You don’t say…
Fordham’s Chad Aldis was quoted on the importance of conducting state tests this school year.
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Gadfly Bites 12/9/20 – The “pinch”
Preble Shawnee Local Schools failed to pass a levy in November, the latest in a long line of renewal failures over the last five years.
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Gadfly Bites 12/7/20 – “This invisible thing”
It was widely noted on Friday that the new school funding plan that passed the House faced less-affirmative prospects in the Ohio Senate (see what I did there?) due to the complexity of the issue and the time remaining in the lame duck legislative session.
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Gadfly Bites 12/2/20 – (sic)
In case you missed it, Chad testified before the House Finance Committee yesterday as an interested party on the Cupp-Patterson school funding overhaul bill.
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Gadfly Bites 11/30/20 – “I had to wake up. I had to realize this is my future I’m talking about.”
NOTE: Gadfly Bites is back after a Thanksgiving break. Clips cover November 25 – 30.
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Gadfly Bites 11/25/20 – The tater trove
NOTE: Gadfly Bites will be off on Friday for Thanksgiving break. Back on Monday, November 30.
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Gadfly Bites 11/23/20 – Downshifting
NOTE: Bites is back from a short vacation. Today’s clips cover 11/19 – 11/23/20.
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Gadfly Bites 11/18/20 – “Not exactly the classroom”
NOTE: Gadfly Bites will be on vacation this Friday, November 20, and will return with a full catch up on Monday, November 23.
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Gadfly Bites 11/16/20 – Faraway lands—far away from reality, that is.
This is another one of those stories where kids and families are the focus of the discussion, but no one bothered to ask any kids or parents their thoughts.
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Gadfly Bites 11/13/20 – Define “better”
While students in grades 6-12 in Troy City Schools have indeed moved to fully-remote learning for a couple of weeks—as we talked about on Wednesday—
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Gadfly Bites 11/11/20 – Largesse
The Cleveland Public Library is partnering with nonprofit PCs for People to help distribute computers and WiFi hotspots for
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Gadfly Bites 11/9/20 – “Everyone became more comfortable and tech savvy.”
A Catholic school in North Canton whipped from fully in-person learning to a fully-remote model last week (cancelling a day of school and weeks’ worth of planned sports a
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Gadfly Bites 11/6/20 – Yeah, there’s an app for that. But you don’t have to use it.
Just your regular reminder, in case you are not a parent in K–12 education in Ohio—that there’s still a whipsaw pandemic going on out there.
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Gadfly Bites 11/4/20 – Election stuff…ew
Did you know that in Ohio you can place a levy reduction issue on the ballot? I didn’t either until I read this story.
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Gadfly Bites 10/30/20 – Ersatz
Our own Aaron Churchill was large and in charge on the commentary page of Cleveland.com today, talking about the Cleveland-specific fi
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Gadfly Bites 10/28/20 – Minus
The headline of this story asks “How is back-to-school going?” in the Cincinnati region. Folks quoted here largely say it’s going pretty well.
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Gadfly Bites 10/26/20 – “Let's not panic seeing this data”
Fordham (probably our Ohio by the Numbers data although who can really tell?) is namechecked in this piece looking at the thorny subject of school funding.
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Gadfly Bites 10/23/20 – Going traditional
We heard on Wednesday that the boost in rona cases across the state were a threat to in-person education.
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Gadfly Bites 10/9/20 – A blaze of glory
COMPILER’S NOTE: Gadfly Bites will be on vacation next week. (“Thank goodness!” I hear you cry. “You need a break. Hopefully you will return refreshed, renewed, and ready to boost up what has been—let’s face it, man—your recent mediocre work.
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Gadfly Bites 10/7/20 – The whipsaw whips again
Cincinnati City Schools is going to a hybrid in-person/remote model after all, starting next week.
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Gadfly Bites 10/5/20 – Luckily…
In Cincinnati, some of the district’s whipsawed parents speak. (Spectrum News 1, 10/5/20)
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Gadfly Bites 10/2/20 – The whipsaw chronicles
Another day, another raft of evidence that parents looking for certainty are well and truly hosed.
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Gadfly Bites 9/30/20 – Going forward
For some reason meeting on a Saturday, the elected board of Dayton City Schools unanimously approved a phased-in plan to bring students back for a
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Gadfly Bites 9/28/20 – General misunderstanding
Here’s an in-depth look at the first month of the school year at Xenia’s St. Brigid School.
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Gadfly Bites 9/25/20 – Wicked Googly
Aren’t search engines great? With them, one can search for an important name (say, Aaron Churchill) and sometimes find references to that name in new places.
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Gadfly Bites 9/23/20 – Protection for whom?
It’s Wednesday, and that means the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee will be hearing testimony today. One of the bills up for debate: SB 358. That’s the one that would, among other things, extend a moratorium on state testing from last school year to this one.
