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Career & Technical Education
Lorain scores a federal grant to improve computer science pathways
Lorain City Schools is no stranger to negative headlines.
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Charter Schools
The Cupp-Patterson funding plan gives school choice the cold shoulder
Note: This is the fifth in a series of blog posts on school funding in Ohio; for the previous posts, see here,
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/16/19 – The game is afoot! Isn’t it?
The line of demarcation between the board and the teachers of Columbus City Schools was sharply drawn at yesterday’s school board meeting.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/14/19 – What to do?
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.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/11/19 – Poetry
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.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/9/19 – Oversight
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.
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ESSA
Districts matter, but Ohio shouldn’t ignore school level improvement efforts
For years now, Ohio has been caught in the throes of a fierce debate over how best to improve low-performing school districts.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/7/19 – And some privilege and some insularity too
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
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/4/19 – “This sends a message we may not want to send”
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.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 10.4.19
The best charter school-related story you’ll read this week
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/2/19 – Audacity
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?
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/30/19 – “Ultimately, we can't let kids fail or be in failing schools.”
It would be very easy to characterize this item, an opinion piece attempting to villainize Ohio’s voucher program disguised as “news”, as nonsense.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.27.19
Digging into charter school ratings across the state
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/25/19 – Once again
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
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Charter Schools
Report cards reveal more signs of improvement in Ohio’s charter school sector
School turnaround policy for Ohio districts, including Youngstown and Lorain, has attracted tremendous attention in recent months.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/23/19 – Rating the ratings
Kudos to the Springfield News-Sun for checking up on the report cards received by the two charter schools in Clar
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Accountability & Testing
Ohio’s softened graduation requirements boosted state report card grades
When Governor DeWine signed the state budget into law in mid-July, it marked the end of ye
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/18/19 – Correlating the causes of contradiction
Our own Aaron Churchill gives a nice analysis of where Ohio’s recent report card results fit into a national context.
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Teachers & School Leaders
Technically speaking, Ohio school districts don't contribute to Ohio teacher pension benefits
NOTE: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute occasionally publishes guest commentaries on its blogs. The views expressed by guest authors do not necessarily reflect those of Fordham.
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Accountability & Testing
Academic distress commissions just might be improving student achievement
Gallons of ink, some on this blog, have been spilled about what Ohio should do about academically troubled school districts.
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Accountability & Testing
A primer on the Senate’s proposal to overhaul academic distress commissions
The hottest topic of conversation in education circles these days is what the legislature plans to do with academic distress commissions (ADCs), the state’s method for intervening in persistently low-performing school district
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/16/19 – Required nuance
Some surprisingly nuanced discussion of the online charter school environment in Ohio 18 months or so after the demise of ECOT
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School Finance
Fair funding plans don’t stop at the school district level
Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts on school funding in Ohio.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/13/19 – Report card drama!
Before we get to the big news of the week, let’s take a brief moment to talk about awesome young people.
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Accountability & Testing
Fordham Institute media statement on school report cards
Today, the Ohio Department of Education released annual report cards for Ohio’s 610 school districts and roughly 3,500 public schools. Based on data from the 2018-19 school year, report cards include a user-friendly, overall rating along with component ratings that provide additional context.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/11/19 – “We have to own where we are.”
As promised, the Senate Education Committee yesterday took a look at a bill promising some big changes to the state’s academic distress paradigm.
