Gadfly Bites 8/7/20 – “All we want is to keep our lives the way they were”
Following Wednesday’s voting/territory transfer story, we return you to
Following Wednesday’s voting/territory transfer story, we return you to
While this is a story about the fall reopening plans for Par Excellence Academy in Newark, that is not the point I wish to focus on for the purposes of these clips.
In case you were wondering, Big Walnut High School’s super spreader event in-person graduation happened as scheduled on July 25.
It’s important to give Ohio school districts’ reopening plans a close look, even if they’re now void in the many locales around the state that will start the fall fully online. Eventually—hopefully sooner rather than later—this pandemic will fade, and schools will be right back in the positions they were in earlier this summer, needing to create reopening plans again.
With Covid-19 cases rising in Ohio and other parts of the nation, a depressing reality is starting to set in: A whole lot of schools aren’t going to open for in-person learning this fall.
Weeks of questions, concerns, protests, and petitions over Dayton City Schools’ disastrous transportation scheme f
We start today with what could likely end up being News of the Moot.
In the discussion of whether and how to reopen schools in the fall, the spotlight falls (sort of) on private schools in central Ohio.
We’ll start today with some unequivocal good news.
We continue our theme of low-quality clips this week.
Not much in the way of clips today.
In case you missed it, there was a meeting of the state board of education earlier this week.
We start today with a Fordham cite—always fun.
It’s no secret that the national debate about reopening schools has been heating up.
Officials at Cleveland Metropolitan School District and the Say Yes to Education program in the city sound very
State Senator Peggy Lehner took a visit to the I Promise School in Akron (pre-pandemic, I’m guessing), and the experi
The Dispatch took a gander at which educational institutions—including K-12 schools—in central Ohio were ap
In case you missed it over the long holiday weekend, Governor DeWine issued some preliminary guidelines for schools to reopen in the fall.
To go back or not to go back? That’s the question on everyone’s mind as we inch closer to August and the beginning of a new school year.
We noted last week that Columbus City Schools hired its first ever chief equity officer.
Governor DeWine recently signed House Bill 164, legislation that addresses several education policies that have been affected by the pandemic.
School’s out for the summer, but thanks to coronavirus, the season seems far less carefree than usual. There are dozens of pandemic-related issues schools must contend with before they can reopen in the fall.
With the announcement last week that Dayton City Schools would offer a fully online learning option
Veteran teacher and administrator Dave Taylor will take over as superintendent of Dayton Early College Academy s
Interdistrict open enrollment is the biggest school-choice program that practically nobody ever mentions, perhaps because it’s less conspicuous and more socially acceptable than its cousins, private school vouchers and public charter schools.
Quick: What was the subject of the universally-reviled HB 70 out of the 131st General Assembly? Buzzzzz. It was NOT Academic Distress Commissions, but thanks for playing! It was a bill allowing school districts to create community learning centers.
Approximately nine million students across the nation lack access to the internet or to internet-connected devices. Lawmakers and educators have known for years that this disparity, often referred to as the “digital divide,” can contribute to achievement and attainment gaps based on race and income.
The growth of private school choice programs in Ohio has clearly struck a nerve with the education bureaucracy. After rapid expansion in the number of schools slated to be deemed “low-performing” in 2020–21, which ballooned the number of students eligible for vouchers, choice opponents pushed for massive changes in Ohio’s EdChoice program.
A group of Horizon Science Academy schools across Ohio are suing the state over what they reckon to