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.
Lawmakers discuss E-school funding
Well well well. Perhaps not everyone in Ohio has lost their minds.
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In an article published on March 5, Bill Bush of the Columbus Dispatch wrote that Columbus City Schools plans to target key areas of their state report card where “modest gains
In case you missed it last week, the USDOE touted a tax credit program propo
One of the defining characteristics of Ohio’s graduation debate is a lack of data.
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
Editors in Toledo
Charter school leaders call for more money for charters
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
New paper on charter school facilities financing sources
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.
CREDO releases report on Ohio’s charter school sector
In case you missed it, researchers
Today, the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University released a new analysis of Ohio charter school performance.
Today, approximately 340 public charter schools educate 105,000 Ohio students. Authored by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, this report contains a rigorous analysis of the state’s charter schools using data from 2013-14 through 2016-17.