ODE rejects White Hat applications
White Hat Management has been the Goliath of Ohio’s charter school operators since its first schools opened in 1999. The company currently operates 33 schools in the Buckeye State.
White Hat Management has been the Goliath of Ohio’s charter school operators since its first schools opened in 1999. The company currently operates 33 schools in the Buckeye State.
Innovation is learned on the weekends
Expanding school choice isn't easy
Checker and Peter square off
Choice czar Adam Emerson recorded an interview with the Wall Street Journal on President Obama's proposed cuts to the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
When it comes to organizations peddling Common Core implementation resources and strategies, the buyer should beware.
Allowing local dollars to follow local students is an important first step in addressing unfair funding systems.
The president's new budget proposal quashes last year's compromise to resurrect the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
The struggles between the Catholic Church and the Obama Administration reveal the fault lines that surface when Washington tries to tinker with the complex machinery that administers our health, social services...and education.
Charters are the answer, not the enemy.
Break the ESEA stalemate
Tardiness and school construction are among the education issues keeping courts busy.
A lot of negative forces contributed to Chester Upland’s present circumstance, and it will take an equal or greater number of positive forces to turn it around. That should include a successful charter school.
Here's hoping that collaboration doesn’t co-opt educational diversity.
Two competing perspectives on reading instruction.
A new study of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program should render a persistent critique of school vouchers and tax credit scholarships irrelevant.
With friends like these, the growing coalition of support for charter schools will have a harder time coalescing around a common purpose.
School choice, not business degrees, offers the best shot at improving the K-12 sector.
Are authorizers losing their nerve?
One could argue that 2011 was the year of “digital learning” in Ohio and across the nation. In September, the White House announced its “Digital Promise” campaign, while a number of states have been embracing initiatives and campaigns in this realm, aided and encouraged by national groups like the Digital Learning Council and the Foundation for Excellence in Education. Ohio’s biennial budget launched the Ohio Digital Learning Task Force and charged it with ensuring that the state’s “legislative environment is conducive to and supportive of the educators and digital innovators at the heart of this transformation.”
Parents, even those a step above poverty, are ready to exercise more control over their children's education.
Adam explains why charter school applications must be subjected to closer scrutiny.
Real reform must embrace choice—choice at the individual level.
As the recent ALEC report card on American K-12 education shows, it's been a brazen year for school reform.
The Common Core emphasis on "close reading" challenges teachers to focus reading on actually reading.
As you are likely well aware, we are in the midst of School Choice Week, not only here in Ohio but nationwide. Numerous events have been going on all throughout the Buckeye State to help commemorate.
The education sector remains an elusive prize for Apple, but the company is making a big move to change that.
Act now, align later
Catching up on the week's news.