Bites is back with you after a tiny hiatus last Friday. So sorry to leave you hanging. Lots to talk about, so let’s dive in!
I fear I have run out of clever ways to discuss the level and form of heartburn being expressed throughout the state over the size of the new EdChoice voucher e
We start with a two-fer for Fordham from last Friday’s Gongwer.
Whining and opining continue in response to the conference call to arms regard to the EdChoice Scholarship program.
Who knew that Monday’s stinker of a story from Fairless Local Schools would come home to roost (still with the bird puns!) so soon?
We’re back after a long holiday break with lots to cover. So let’s get to it.
Folks in Lorain are keeping their eyes firmly on the future, it seems.
I hate to be an old I Told Ya So, but it seems that Dayton City Schools’ plan to boost student attendance by spending massively on public transportation has moved the ne
As expected, Plain Local Schools is going to court—federal court—to stop a new state law which makes it easier for property owners in the district to win a rezoning request to join
I’m not sure I follow all the arguments here, but let me see if I can summarize.
This is an editorial which exonerates the Lorain school board and every other area official and meddling rando who obstructed David Hardy’s work a
Ohio’s Report Card Study Committee met this week to talk turkey about all of the various parts making up school and district report cards.
Only two clips today—both on the same subject. Both are fantastic. Both of them beg a question.
Confirmed at last: College Credit Plus does save some kids money on college!
In Youngstown, the elected school board and the mayor agreed that the process to replace the elected board, as called for in Ohio’s still-on-the-books-last-time-I-checked academic distress commission paradigm, would be o
State Senator Matt Huffman wants Ohio to be “first in line” for a federal private education choice matching program…if it ever actually happens. And last week he introduced legislation to get the ball rolling.
Earlier this month, the Ohio House Finance Committee began hearings on a school funding plan crafted by Representatives Robert Cupp and John Patterson, along with a group
Thank heavens election day is tomorrow. I am heartily sick of all this campaign junk taking up space in Ohio’s news outlets.
In case you had forgotten, there is a hotly contested race for school board in Cincinnati City Schools going on, and I mean “Cincinnati hot”. Thank heavens it will be over by this time next week.
Only two pieces of Bites-worthy news today. First up, from the Is Nothing Sacred?
As we have discussed regularly in the Bites over the last five years, there is a fiscal analogue to the state’s efforts at academic oversight in school districts.
As noted on Wednesday, arguments were heard before the Ohio Supreme Court (sitting in remote Montpelier, Ohio) on the constitutionality of HB 70, the law which created Ohio’s current CEO-st
Last year, NBA superstar LeBron James opened I Promise School (IPS), a school for at-risk kids in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. In its first year (2018–19), IPS served 240 students in grades three and four.
Wow. It’s not often we get to welcome brand new media outlets to the family. But the closure of the Youngstown Vindicator really did bring out the next tier of journalistic endeavors, didn’t it?
Call it the Ghost of Gatehouse Past.
We start today with another heartwarming story of a suburban teen entrepreneur. Seventeen-year-old Will Feldman of Bexley runs a business called pausecircleplay.
The line of demarcation between the board and the teachers of Columbus City Schools was sharply drawn at yesterday’s school board meeting.
So your district got a report card grade that reflects badly on you you didn’t like. What can you do? For Fairfield City Schools in Butler County, the answer is take a temperature check.
I might be wrong, but I think there’s some big political event coming up here in central Ohio soon. How else to explain today’s dueling editorials in the Dispatch, both aimed squarely at addressing national political rhetoric.
