This November, Americans will cast their votes in thousands of local school board races. The stakes couldn’t be higher. These governing bodies will decide how public schools handle hot-button issues like masking requirements and critical race theory.
I know we’re not supposed to talk about “Covid slide” among kids because there is no such thing.
During summer 2012, Governor Kasich signed House Bill 525, legislation that allowed the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) to implement a city-wide school turnaround plan.
As we noted on Friday, Woodcrest Elementary in Columbus City Schools started the new school year last week.
In case you missed it, the Ohio Department of Health this week released its Covid guidance for K-12 schools for the new school year
We’re back after a week’s vacation. Let’s get caught up!
Bites will be on vacation for the next week. Back on Wednesday, July 28, with what I hope will be a more scintillating edition than this one. To wit…
Only two clips for today, and both of them are military-focused. How nice!
Officials with Akron City Schools tell the ABJ that they “learned a lot about online learning since March 2020”.
With the state budget bill on the books, most loyal Gadfly readers have more time to kick back and read something other than legislation. Here’s a synopsis of a few recent reports that caught my eye. Ohio has one of the nation’s largest AP opportunity gaps
As we have noted in these Bites since the passage of the state budget bill, the cold light of day is a strong antidote to formerly red hot rhetoric. It also seems to induce some caveat emptor vibes as well.
After months of debate, the state budget was signed into law by Governor DeWine
The powers that be in Youngstown City Schools—all of them—seem to be looking forward to the day that local control will be fully re-established in the distri
Our own Chad Aldis is quoted in this piece from public radio here in Columbus, saying that the new state budget “completely divorced” school report cards from vouche
Fordham’s data guru Aaron Churchill was quoted in this piece looking at the changes ahead for school and district report cards
On July 1, Governor DeWine signed House Bill 110, the state’s operating budget for fiscal years 2022–23.
Late Monday, members of the House and Senate made their final tweaks to the state budget and then sent it off to Governor DeWine.
Following on from our theme on Wednesday, perhaps it’s not just the amount of time one takes to absorb new information that matters in terms of response. Perhaps it is natural inclination as well.
After several years of debate, Ohio lawmakers recently passed a much-needed revamp of the state’s school report card.
In case you missed it, the state budget bill passed out of the legislature very late in the day on Monday.
Today, the Ohio Senate and House, each with broad bipartisan support, approved the report of the budget conference committee and sent HB 110 (the biennium state budget) to Governor DeWine for his approval.
The U.S. Department of Labor defines stackable credentials as a “sequence of credentials that can be accumulated over time.” Research indicates that they can lead to higher-paying jobs for students and improve talent pipelines for employers. Over the last few years, Ohio has become a national leader in developing stackable credential pipelines.
In case you missed it late in the day on Friday, House Bill 82 passed out of the General Assembly. Among other things, the bill contains a serious revamp of school and district report cards.
As we await final decisions from the General Assembly on important matters of school funding, report cards, vouchers, and more here in Ohio, we have a bumper crop of charter news from around the country that’s holding our attention.<
Fordham-provided stats are referenced in the piece on the status of a school funding revamp currently included in the state budget bill.
