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Career & Technical Education, Charter Schools
Pathway to Success: Towpath Trail High School gives students the tools to build a better future
According to a recent What Works Clearinghouse review, the most effective dropout-prevention strategy is to directly connect schoolwork to students’ career aspirations.
Commentary
Accountability & Testing
Sidestepping accountability, the sequel: The sad similarities between graduation requirements and academic distress commissions
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).
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Advanced Education
Tackling Ohio’s toughest education challenges: Provide bonuses to teachers when students pass AP/IB exams
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
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Accountability & Testing
Testimony given before the Ohio Senate Education Committee – 5/29/19
NOTE: Today the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee heard testimony on the state’s current academic distre
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/29/19 – The mysterious inner workings of the media
Apropos of nothing (at least, nothing that is obvious to me),
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Accountability & Testing
Testimony given before the Senate Finance Committee – 5/29/19
NOTE: Today, the Senate Finance Committee heard testimony on HB 166, the state’s new biennial budget bill.
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Accountability & Testing
The other side of the story: Senate testimony offers another perspective on what’s happening in Lorain
If you live in Ohio and pay attention to education-related news, you’ve probably heard about academic distress commissions (ADCs), a mechanism that
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Charter Schools
When it comes to charter accountability, Ohio should mend it not end it
In a concerted effort to improve sector quality, Ohio has wisely strengthened its charter school laws.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/24/19 – The grinder
As budget season grinds on, hearings continue on all things HB 166. This includes things that are not in the budget bill but might eventually be.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 5.24.19
Charter school helps talented music student shine
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Private School Choice
Ohio should eliminate its waiting lists for private school choice
All families deserve the opportunity to choose schools, whether public or private, that meet their needs and wants. To its credit, Ohio has been a trailblazing state when it comes to supporting private-school choice via state-funded scholarships, a.k.a.
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Career & Technical Education
Ohio’s Aim Hire conference highlights connections between education and the workforce
In downtown Columbus last week, over four hundred business and industry leaders, educators, state policymakers, and advocates conv
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Governance
Tackling Ohio’s toughest education challenges: Expand interdistrict open enrollment
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
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/20/19 – The old and the new
It may be a new week, but it’s the same old news to be had it seems.
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Accountability & Testing
Testimony given before the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education – 5/16/19
NOTES: On Thursday, May 16, 2019, the CEO of Lorain City Schools testified before the Ohio Senate Finance Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education on
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Accountability & Testing
Papering over school failure is no way to attract businesses to Ohio
In a recent floor debate, Representative Phillip Robinson made an Orwellian “pro-business” case for eliminating state interventions in chronically low-performing districts, saying: “When businesses are looking to come to Ohio, they want to go into competitive co
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 5.17.19
Charter school celebrates its Seniors and Kindergarteners
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/17/19 – How do you say “absorb” in Latin?
A TV news outlet in Cincinnati this week produced a short but admirably wide-ranging piece exploring
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/15/19 – Whose frustration, your honor?
In case you missed it, Fordham is part of a coalition o
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Governance
Testimony given before the Ohio Senate Finance Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education – 5/14/19
Note: Today, the Ohio Senate Finance Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education heard testimony on HB 166, the state’s new biennial bu
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Accountability & Testing
Tackling Ohio’s toughest education challenges: Refine school report cards
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
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/13/19 – Equal opportunity whiners
Make of this what you will: A 2017 blog written by our own Aaron Churchill is “mistaken” for a research study and its points exaggerated (IMHO) in this com
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 5.10.19
Treasurer Sprague visits Ohio Construction Academy
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/10/19 – The bad, the worse, and the truly weird
Today’s clips are a mix of bizarreness and absurdity that I’d like to call “bizzurdity”. I’m sure it will stick. Read on to see what I’m talking about.
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Accountability & Testing
Media Statement on School Report Card Changes in State Budget
The Ohio House of Representatives today passed HB 166, the biennial budget bill. The legislation includes language that would drastically alter the way Ohio produces overall school report card ratings.
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Accountability & Testing
Another attack on accountability from the Ohio House, this time on school ratings
Please note the update posted on May 15th at the bottom of this blog post.
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Accountability & Testing
A better path ahead for Ohio’s graduation requirements
Over the next month or so, thousands of Ohio students will cross the stage and receive diplomas at their high school graduation ceremonies.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 5/8/19 – Slightly less
It’s budget season around here, which I think is kind of like allergy season: Endless, persistent, and annoying, but with slightly less snot.
