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Setting the record straight: Fordham and charter-school sponsorship
Why Fordham authorizes charter schools despite the costs and hassles
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METCO Merits More: The History and Status of METCO
A tried-and-true integration program gets support from across the ideological spectrum
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Eliminating the Achievement Gap: A White Paper on How Charter Schools Can Help District Leaders
Three cheers for portfolio school districts
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Setting the record straight: Fordham and charter school sponsorship
Ohio has echoed with controversy in recent weeks regarding House-passed changes to the state’s charter law that would decimate an already weak charter-school accountability system (see here,
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Districts should embrace budget provisions that reward high-performing charters
Among the many differences the conference committee must resolve between the House and Senate versions of the state budget is a Senate provision that would reward exceptional charter schools with low-cost facilities. Specifically:
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Gadfly analysis: Charter start-ups vs. district turnarounds vs. closure
Earlier this month Fordham released an analysis in the national Education Gadfly showing that when it comes to serving kids in the neediest communities, charter school start-ups have a far greater chance (nearly quadruple) of success than a district turnaround.
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Columbus Collegiate's first graduating class: The path was hard but the results great
Nikki Baszynski reflects on the eighth-grade graduation ceremony at Columbus Collegiate Academy (CCA), a Fordham-authorized middle school serving students in grades six through eight (the vast majority of whom are economically disadvantaged).
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Restructuring Resources for High-Performing Schools
With ever increasingly tight public school budgets, Education Resource Strategies (ERS) could not be timelier in the release of its policy brief related to how to maximize school spending.
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Preparing for Growth: Human Capital Innovations in Public Charter Schools
The growth of high-performing charter schools and charter-management organizations (CMOs) is critical for such schools to become sound alternative for more needy kids. To expand, however, CMOs must overcome the challenge of finding superior teachers and school leaders.
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Can NCLB Choice Work? Modeling the Effects of Interdistrict Choice on Student Access to Higher-Performing Schools
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation stipulated that a Title I school is in need of improvement if it fails to meet AYP for two consecutive years, and that students attending those schools are eligible to transfer to another public school within the district. How many students are taking advantage of this provision though?
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Too many As at ed schools?
Education Week’s Sean Cavanagh surveys the status of parent-trigger proposals in states across the nation in his latest article, Legislative Momentum Stalls for 'Parent Trigger' Proposals.
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Fixation on merit pay in Ohio crowds out more vital conversations
Potentially drastic changes to teacher personnel policy in Ohio have been at the heart of heated debates for the last five or six months, precipitated by provisions in controversial SB 5, Ohio's collective bargaining law, as well as about-to-be-passed state biennial budget HB 153.
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Setting the record straight: The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and charter school sponsorship
There has been a lot of controversy in Ohio in recent weeks around House-proposed legislative changes to the state's charter law that would decimate an already weak charter school accountability system (see here,
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Can NCLB Choice Work? Modeling the Effects of Interdistrict Choice on Student Access to Higher Performing Schools
Tune up those school buses; we?re going for a ride
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Teacher Quality Roadmap: Improving Policies and Practices in LAUSD
The only question is: Where to start?
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Columbus Collegiate's first graduating class: the path was hard but the results great
Guest blogger Nikki Baszynski reflects on the eighth-grade graduation ceremony at Columbus Collegiate Academy (CCA), a Fordham-authorized middle school serving students in grades six through eight (the vast majority of whom are economi
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Dysfunction in Ohio charter sector is not the fault of Republicans alone
In his weekly TIME column, Andy Rotherham pens a piece, ?Are These End Times for Charter Schools??, that begs further discussion. (Although how much cooler would it have been if the column came out on May 21?)
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Districts should embrace Ohio budget provision rewarding high-performing charters
Last evening, the Ohio Senate passed its version of the state's next operating budget, which would reward exceptional charter schools with low-cost facilities.?? Specifically: Districts would be required to offer up unused space to charter schools for lease if the space goes unused by the district for two years,
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Two new videos: Teachers speak out, dispel myths about teacher evaluations
Like many states, Ohio is struggling with how best to evaluate teachers and how to use those evaluations to inform personnel decisions (like remuneration, tenure, professional development, and ? when district budgets or enrollment levels leave no other choice ?layoffs).
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Ohio cannot afford to delay on teacher effectiveness measures
For as long as anyone can remember, in Ohio as in the rest of America, a public-school teacher’s effectiveness and performance in the classroom have had little to no impact on decisions about whether she is retained by her district or laid off, how she is compensated or assigned to a district’s schools, or how her professional development is crafted.