Creating smart, coherent education policy is painstaking work; there are technical, budgetary, and political challenges at almost every turn. But it is some of the most important work that state leaders can undertake.
This piece about a group of high-performing charter school
Jeremy Kelley of the Dayton Daily News
A thorough overview of Ohio's charter/community school governance framework
In early February, Chalkbeat published an analysis of New York City’s graduation rate, which rose to nearly 76 percent in 2018—a 1.7 percent increas
Editors in Columbus opined yesterday on at least part of the findings in the latest CREDO study of charter school performance in Ohio.
At least one district treasurer in Butler County finds the biennial state budget process “complicated and scary”.
Authorized in 2005, Academic Distress Commissions (ADCs) are the state’s mechanism for int
In case you haven’t been following it (and who can blame you with everything else going on here?), a battle royale has been raging in neighboring West Virg
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." -- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. That sentiment has never been more profound and applicable than it is today.
The Path Forward series returns to the pages of Dayton Daily News, chronicling the efforts of Dayton City Schools to avoid state takeover start serv
We told you a while back about a Toledo native and “herbal entrepreneur” (shall we say) who says
This week’s Dayton City Schools board meeting was supposed to be about reading and reviewing a draft strategic plan for future awesomeness.
The Speaker of the Ohio House held an (extremely) informal presser late last week, talking about his priorities for the new General Assembly session.
Compiler’s note: The hellacious weather around here has destroyed my productivity this week so today you lucky lucky subscribers (I love all five of you—truly) will get to see behind the scenes of what I laughingly call my “process”. Below is simply the list of clips I’ve got for you today, with a couple of words to denote why it’s interesting/important/worth clipping.
Nina Rees, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, t
Our own Aaron Churchill had an op-ed in the Di
We start today with further praise for the Say Yes to Education program
When I was in school, a B- grade was nothing to rest upon.
Here are two variations of how Lorain City Schools CEO’s first Town Hall meeting of 2019 went. They are somewhat different in tone and content.
A belated happy new year to all my loyal Gadfly Bites subscribers! At last, we’re catching up to all of the exciting education news clips so far in 2019. As with our 2018 wrap up, these clips are mainly presented in chronological order rather than organized to tell a story.
