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Spectrum News 1 visited our conference room a while back to ask Chad
For many Ohio students, taking college entrance exams is a key milestone on the path from high school to college. Yet countless thousands have foregone these exams, effectively slamming the door on their opportunity to attend four-year colleges and universities.
The ECOT boogeyman looms large in this piece, rehashing the whole story from what is meant to be a brand new perspective.
School districts in Ohio have been dealing with the scourge of grade inflation—blamed largely on dual enrollment in college courses—by doing away with the
From the What Did You Expect Department: A
Following on with our theme from yesterday, little birdies in the Statehouse are apparently suggesting that changes to the state’s intervention efforts int
While our clips have in the last several weeks focused heavily on the state budget process, it is only now at the end where the plaintive cries of “But Ohi
Happy Monday! We start today with the topic of charter school funding.
Our title today is a little misleading.
As budget season winds down, lawmakers face the tall task of reconciling some vastly different proposals from the governor’s office, the House, and the Senate on a variety of issues in the budget bill, House Bill 166.
A blog post by our own Jessica Poiner is cited in this announcemen
Back in 2015, former Governor John Kasich encouraged the General Assembly to address the persistent failure of several school districts by strengthening academic distress commissions (ADCs), the state’s mechanism for intervening in chronically underperforming districts. Legislators obliged.
Local reporter Lisa Rantala from ABC6 visited Fordham-sponsored Columbus Collegiate Academy recently.
NOTE: Today the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee heard testimony on House Bill 166, the state’s new biennial budget.
It’s budget season in Ohio, and that means frenzied debate about a wide swath of policy proposals.
In an era of “fake news,” political division, and rampant civic illiteracy, one might think smart policymakers would want to ensure that young people exit high school with a solid grasp of American history and government—the foundations of responsible citizenship.
Everyone else I’ve talked to thinks this story is unequivocally great.
In case you missed it, the Senate Education Committee this week heard import
Ohio education policy has seen its fair share of controversy in recent years, but there are two policies in particular that have dominated news cycles: graduation requirements and academic distress commissions (ADCs).
NOTE: Today the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee heard testimony on the state’s current academic distre
Apropos of nothing (at least, nothing that is obvious to me),
NOTE: Today, the Senate Finance Committee heard testimony on HB 166, the state’s new biennial budget bill.
If you live in Ohio and pay attention to education-related news, you’ve probably heard about academic distress commissions (ADCs), a mechanism that
