New research on Ohio charter quality and policy makes headlines, creating consensus that change is needed
Ohio on the cusp of big changes to charter school law
Ohio on the cusp of big changes to charter school law
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form at Bellwether Education Partners' Ahead of the Herd blog.
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in slightly different form at the Chartering Quality blog.
Fixing Ohio’s charter law is a difficult, but necessary task. Chad L. Aldis and Aaron Churchill
Setting out the case for ten policy recommendations to improve the quality of Ohio's charter school sector.
An important new look at charter school quality in Ohio.
Good school choice practices emerge from a charter school crisis in Indianapolis.
The ins and outs of financing charter school facilities.
Blended learning: electronic babysitting, latest fad or education breakthrough?
Funding and quality in charter schools, views from 50,000 fee down to an individual school.
Attempt at "transparency" looks more like data spin.
Andy Smarick came to Columbus to talk about options for urban education in the future...starting now.
Supporting parents and students must be uppermost in any discussion of charter school authorization reform in Ohio. So far, their concerns seem to be last in consideration.
Do private schools taking "cherry pick" their voucher students?
The closure of a charter school in Cincinnati shows that Ohio's accountability system can work, but needs some tweaks.
Ohio’s new teacher-evaluation system requires evaluators to conduct two, formal thirty-minute classroom observations. Yet these legally prescribed observations seem ripe for compliance and rote box-checking; in fact, they may not be quite the impetus for school-wide improvement that policymakers had hoped for.
Short review of a new report from the University of Arkansas, with an Ohio perspective.
This new report from the University of Arkansas compares the productivity of public charter schools and district schools, both in terms of cost effectiveness and return on investment (ROI).
Will highly-touted (and heavily-funded) STEM skills translate into STEM jobs for graduates?
Parents make educational choices in the best interests of their children, but to many school districts involved in open enrollment, it's only about numbers on a spreadsheet.
When it comes to educational options, there are sundry open doors available to the nation’s more affluent kids—and far fewer for their poorer peers to walk through.
Voucher program data is starting to emerge in Ohio, and everyone is taking notice.
The Rocketship charter network, founded in San Jose in 2006, has had a growth trajectory worthy of its name: it already operates nine schools, and its goal is to educate 25,000 students by 2017.
We take a look at the School Choice Demonstration Project's latest examination of charter funding across the country.
Although they’ve long been a favorite of working-class parents in search of safe, structured, morally solid environments, inner-city Catholic schools have struggled with finances and enrollment numbers for decades.
Hot off the presses: sometimes even a signed and sealed deal can't secure a facility for charter school.
Repeated failures of charter schools around Ohio seem endless; some hope may be around the corner.
The State of the Union was unusually light on education, though President Obama did touch on early-childhood education, ed tech, college access, and (of course) Race to the Top. However, the real action came the next morning, when the U.S.
Ohio ranked 28th out of 43 states and the District of Columbia on NAPCS' most recent ranking of charter school laws in the U.S. Ohio's kids and parents deserve better and now is the time.