Teacher layoffs are a hot topic nowadays, as are the dire warnings about what will happen if teachers are let go. When Cleveland’s board voted to lay off 545 teachers to balance that district’s budget, the union warned of class sizes topping 45 students per teacher (don’t w
"It's frustrating to be a charter-school supporter in the Buckeye State. Charter performance in Ohio is, overall, barely equal and too often inferior to that of the district schools with which they compete...." Read it here.
Earlier this year the Brookings Institution and the Greater Ohio Policy Center garnered attention from both gubernatorial
The other day the Columbus Dispatch ran an article assessing Gov.
For the first time since its inception five years ago, Ohio’s EdChoice Scholarship program (the state’s targeted school voucher program) has reached its legal m
While Andy grows increasingly pessimistic about the education stimulus, I am starting to see some more reasons for hope.
Here we go again. As Politics K-12 reports, the Administration is foreshadowing a second stimulus package, this one likely to focus on bailing out local and state governments, including and especially public school systems.
Imagine, you have been laid off and you can't find another job earning anywhere close to what you were making. Your savings have been decimated by the disaster on Wall Street. You may be renting now that you lost your home. Maybe your pension is a lot less, too. That's an all-too-familiar scenario already.
The Core Knowledge Foundation (CKF) in Charlottesville, Virginia, founded by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., seeks an Executive Director. The Foundation staff currently numbers 20, and its annual operating budget is approximately $1.7 million.
I’ve always been your ardent defender. I buy peanut butter buckeye candy for people out of state and I have a t-shirt with a red outline of you that says “Midwest is Best.” And I really believe it.
As a charter (aka community) school sponsor in Ohio, the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation joins with schools to affirm a relentless commitment to high expectations for all children, accountability for academic results, transparency and organizational integrity, while freeing the schools to operate with minimal red tape. Sounds like your charter school?
The Ohio Senate is contemplating a risky jump onto the 21st Century skills bandwagon.
There have been big changes in Ohio's education landscape over the past several years, and the flurry of activity won't be slowing in 2006. So, what's in the crystal ball for the upcoming year in education, and how will it affect you? Gadfly presents four education issues to keep an eye on this year.1. Increased accountability for charter schools and their sponsors
This week, Mike and Rick discuss teacher residencies, affirmative action, and their newfound relationship with the NEA. We have an interview with a famous international journalist who talks about the American PISA fracas, and Education News of the Weird is like a light swat to the head.
In a bold—and dare I say inspiring—op-ed that appeared in last Sunday’s Washington Post, 16 school district leaders share a manifesto on “how to fix our schools.” The 16 leaders are responsible for educating nearly 2.5 million children and represent a cross-s
Do you have a passion for improving education and a sense of humor? Are you hard-working and cheerful? Are you interested in being part of a fast-paced, demanding, and rewarding environment?
The well-regarded Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) seeks outstanding educators to join the staff at existing KIPP Schools and to start and lead new KIPP Schools across the country. To date, KIPP has opened 38 schools in 15 states and the District of Columbia.
If we find them, we will come. KIPP hopes to open schools in the Buckeye State and elsewhere in 2006. This highly regarded organization is also looking for outstanding educators to join existing KIPP schools. To date, KIPP has opened 38 schools in 15 states and the District of Columbia.
K12 (www.k12.com), a new Internet education company led by William J. Bennett, has recently partnered with virtual charter schools in Texas and Colorado and now seeks talented, qualified school administrators and teachers in those states. Interested persons should send their resumes to Ann Hoch at [email protected].
In case you didn't hear, we're throwing a party at our new offices and you're invited. It's Wednesday, February 6th, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. We're hosting a Fordham open house (at 1016 16th St.
New York state's test scores in math were released yesterday, and not surprisingly they were up, up, up. That's not surprising because test scores on state tests almost always go up.
This conversation about churches authorizing charter schools has raised my hackles.
Ohio has long been known as the cradle of presidents. The Buckeye State has seen eight of its sons serve as the nation's top executive. More recently Ohio has been the incubator of education reformers.
The Mind Trust's blueprint for overhauling Indy's education governance structure is forward-thinking and desperately needed.
The central problem besetting K-12 education in the United States today is still—as for almost thirty years now—that far too few of our kids are learning nearly enough for their own or the nation’s good. And the gains we’ve made, though well worth making, have been meager (and largely confined to math), are trumped by gains in other countries, and evaporate by the end of high school.
Tony Bennett likes it, and so do we
A long-term investment in teachers
One program that's on the right track
