Gadfly Bites 11/4/19 – It’s your choice, apparently
Thank heavens election day is tomorrow. I am heartily sick of all this campaign junk taking up space in Ohio’s news outlets.
Thank heavens election day is tomorrow. I am heartily sick of all this campaign junk taking up space in Ohio’s news outlets.
Changing the game in Parma
In case you had forgotten, there is a hotly contested race for school board in Cincinnati City Schools going on, and I mean “Cincinnati hot”. Thank heavens it will be over by this time next week.
Only two pieces of Bites-worthy news today. First up, from the Is Nothing Sacred?
As we have discussed regularly in the Bites over the last five years, there is a fiscal analogue to the state’s efforts at academic oversight in school districts.
Parents, when surveyed, routinely tell us that safety is one of their top priorities when choosing a school. Although what exactly constitutes a “safe” school likely varies, for many it means a place where children feel welcomed and accepted.
Ohio charters get the cold shoulder from lawmakers
As noted on Wednesday, arguments were heard before the Ohio Supreme Court (sitting in remote Montpelier, Ohio) on the constitutionality of HB 70, the law which created Ohio’s current CEO-st
Last year, NBA superstar LeBron James opened I Promise School (IPS), a school for at-risk kids in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. In its first year (2018–19), IPS served 240 students in grades three and four.
Wow. It’s not often we get to welcome brand new media outlets to the family. But the closure of the Youngstown Vindicator really did bring out the next tier of journalistic endeavors, didn’t it?
Call it the Ghost of Gatehouse Past.
Congratulations to Ohio’s high quality charter schools!
We start today with another heartwarming story of a suburban teen entrepreneur. Seventeen-year-old Will Feldman of Bexley runs a business called pausecircleplay.
Lorain City Schools is no stranger to negative headlines.
Note: This is the fifth in a series of blog posts on school funding in Ohio; for the previous posts, see here,
The line of demarcation between the board and the teachers of Columbus City Schools was sharply drawn at yesterday’s school board meeting.
So your district got a report card grade that reflects badly on you you didn’t like. What can you do? For Fairfield City Schools in Butler County, the answer is take a temperature check.
I might be wrong, but I think there’s some big political event coming up here in central Ohio soon. How else to explain today’s dueling editorials in the Dispatch, both aimed squarely at addressing national political rhetoric.
“Go visit a charter school”
Here is a nice profile of Haugland Learning Center in Sandusky, Ohio, a school dedicated to teaching students on the autism spectrum and those with developmental disabilities.
We start the week with a personal column in the Marion Times written by a dad who also happens to be a member of the paper
Fordham’s Chad Aldis—my boss, a stand-up guy, my direct supervisor, super smart, and did I mention he’s in charge around here?—has been having a recent run of very bad luck when it comes to being quoted in Ohio newspapers. Not because he’s not on the ball or not saying really smart stuff.
The best charter school-related story you’ll read this week
What is a curmudgeonly education news clips compiler to do when two of his most regular sources of questionable reasoning oppose one another on the pages of a major daily newspaper?
It would be very easy to characterize this item, an opinion piece attempting to villainize Ohio’s voucher program disguised as “news”, as nonsense.
Digging into charter school ratings across the state
I’m not sure what about it resonates so well at the national level, but Fordham’s 2017 interdistrict open enrollment report was cited once again, in an opinion piece on district
School turnaround policy for Ohio districts, including Youngstown and Lorain, has attracted tremendous attention in recent months.
Kudos to the Springfield News-Sun for checking up on the report cards received by the two charter schools in Clar