Gadfly Bites 3/18/19 – “Addition by subtraction”
As you may have heard, Governor DeWine released his first biennial budget on
As you may have heard, Governor DeWine released his first biennial budget on
Each year, teacher candidates across the nation take licensing exams designed to check their mastery of pedagogy and of content knowledge. Though each state selects its own licensing tests, the Praxis Elementary Education: Multiple Subjects assessment, created by the Education Testing Service (ETS), is the most widely used elementary content exam.
On Friday, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine released his state budget proposals for fiscal years 2020–21. While we await the detailed policy language that will come when his budget is put into bill form in the General Assembly, his outline doesn’t offer much in the way of surprises.
Governor Mike DeWine unveiled his first biennial budget proposal today, including a number of important recommendations for K-12 education. “The governor’s budget proposal lives up to its billing,” said Chad L. Aldis, Vice President for Ohio Policy and Advocacy at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
Well well well. Perhaps not everyone in Ohio has lost their minds.
The
In case you missed it last week, the USDOE touted a tax credit program propo
Editors in Toledo
Governor Mike DeWine is expected to release his biennial budget proposal next week, which will include his plan to fund education.
Just one clip today, but it feels pretty important somehow.
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.
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we belie
This piece about a group of high-performing charter school
A thorough overview of Ohio's charter/community school governance framework
Editors in Columbus opined yesterday on at least part of the findings in the latest CREDO study of charter school performance in Ohio.
In case you missed it, researchers
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.
Elaborate collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) have for decades enshrined the “factory model” into public education.
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.