Gadfly Bites 4/4/22—Grab bag

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 4.1.22

More fallout from CSP proposals

Gadfly Bites 4/1/22—Foolin’

Gadfly Bites 3/30/22—Next time leave out the fortune cookie

Ohio’s bad habit of sidestepping accountability

When the General Assembly adopted the Third Grade Reading Guarantee back in 2012, it was in response to research showing that reading proficiently by the end of third grade is a “make-

Intensive interventions and the third grade reading guarantee

Passed in 2012, Ohio’s third grade reading guarantee aims to ensure that all children have the foundational literacy skills needed for success in middle school and beyond.

Gadfly Bites 3/28/22—Because the district might do what now?

“I want more”: Parental choice empowers Hispanic parents in Texas

Hispanic students make up the largest share of charter school students nationally, but research focusing specifically on Hispanic school choosers is lacking.

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.25.22

Potential impacts of new CSP rules

Gadfly Bites 3/25/22—Standouts

Gadfly Bites 3/23/22—“Less buildings make you more efficient”

Gadfly Bites 3/21/22—So hard

Not much to talk about today, but at least the clip we have features my colleague Aaron Churchill talking about a topic near and dear to all of

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.18.22

“A smart tool”

Gadfly Bites 3/18/22—Heads in the sand

Data guru Aaron Churchill is quoted here and some of his Fordham-produced data is cited as well on the topic of enrollment declines in Miami V

Gadfly Bites 3/16/22—Let’s call it wordsmithing

Lots of inaccurate and misleading information here, if you ask me, regarding the financial situation in Ross Local Schools.

The consequences of a successful anti-voucher lawsuit

Earlier this year, the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding filed a lawsuit aimed at eliminating the state’s EdChoice Scholarship Program

Five ways Ohio lawmakers can strengthen the third grade reading guarantee

Almost ten years have passed since Ohio lawmakers enacted early literacy reforms that aim to ensure all children read fluently.

Gadfly Bites 3/14/22—Debunked but still in use

Trust me, none of these elected school board members in Berea are any better informed about school choice than they were before the

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.11.22

Charter innovations

Gadfly Bites 3/11/22—Everybody needs a Yugo sometime, I guess

Don’t look now, but it seems that a number of Ohio school districts are tentatively starting to declare victory against the Covid slide in student progress and achievement.

Lessons from a pilot tutoring project

Folks who have “tutoring” as the hoped-for winning square on their post-Covid bingo card will want to pay close attention to a recent report detailing a field experiment in virtual tutoring. A group of researchers led by Sally Sadoff of the University of California San Diego created the pilot program and tested its efficacy via a controlled experiment.

Gadfly Bites 3/9/22—Schools of choice, people

A seeming hodgepodge of clips today, but the throughline is delish. Check it out. First up is an opinion piece from a long-time columnist at the Dayton Daily News with whom I am not familiar. Perhaps he has never written about education previously?

RemotEDx: A closer look at how Ohio spent some of its federal Covid relief dollars

In March of 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic was just beginning its deadly sweep across the United States, Ohio became the first state to close

Gadfly Bites 3/7/22—Woe and whoa

While the days of multiple Columbus City Schools buildings “pivoting to remote learning” due to huge numbers of absent staff members seem to be over for now,

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.4.22

10,000 new charter schools needed

Gadfly Bites 3/4/22—I believe the proper term is “between gigs”

I am reasonably sure that some of you, my lovely readers, occasionally say to yourselves, “Gadfly Bites is being too hard on this or that media outlet; surely it is not skewing coverage of certain topics as much as our humble clips compiler thinks.” Perhaps you are correct from time to time, but piec

Gadfly Bites 3/2/22—Before the roadshow

Unnecessarily cranky headline here, if you ask me, but a generally even-keeled story on Ohio’s so-called “backpack funding”

Ohio should follow Maryland’s lead on spending federal Covid relief dollars

Over the course of the pandemic, the federal government has sent billions of dollars in emergency funding to states via three separate relief acts. A large portion of the appropriated funds within each act were earmarked for K–12 education, with the largest available funding stream being the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, or ESSER.

Grade promotion standards and the Third Grade Reading Guarantee

Reading is essential to functioning in today’s society. Job applications, financial documents, and instruction manuals all require basic literacy. Above that, our lives are greatly enriched when we can effortlessly read the printed word.

Gadfly Bites 2/28/22—The network broadens

Following up from our Youngstown bombshell on Friday, current CEO/future superintendent Justin Jennings says he is excited for the work ahead.