Yesterday School Choice Ohio held a discussion led by Matt Ladner, a senior fellow with the Foundation for Educational Choice who's conducted a mountain of research on school choice programs nationally and in Ohio.
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Background Is it time for Ohio to consider new forms of school governance for its most troubled school districts, and if so, what might alternatives look like?
The Ohio Department of Education recently released performance rankings of all charter authorizers (aka “sponsors”), as part of the new requirement that those ranking in the bottom 20 percent of all authorizers cannot take on new schools for one year.
The George W. Bush Presidential Center (in Dallas) recently released data on international student achievement in both reading and math, which you can peruse in an interactive tool, the Global Report Card. The report card compares 2007 math and reading achievement levels between districts across the nation and 25 developed nations.
Rigorous studies have been conducted on various school voucher programs – most notably those in Milwaukee, the District of Columbus, and Florida – but this study by CATO’s Matthew Carr is the first of its kind to study Ohio’s EdChoice Scholarship program.
With a continued emphasis from the federal government on accountability for K-12 schools, specifically among the lowest performers, state education agencies (SEAs) have had to take a more direct role in school improvement. However, do SEAs have the capacity and resources necessary to take on this work?
In a system of over 6,000 schools educating over 2 million students, Catholic schools in the United States are setting the bar high with graduation rates over 99 percent and students attending college at a rate of 84.7 percent. This article from Education Week credits the success of Catholic schools on their
The Columbus Dispatch ran competing op-eds by School Choice Ohio's (SCO) Chad Aldis and Fordham's Terry Ryan on the expansion of vouchers in the Buckeye State. Both Aldis and Ryan support the expansion of school choice programs in Ohio, but how the state should hold these new programs accountable for their academic performance and even whether it should do so is contentious.
