Gadfly Bites 8/5/20 – Unofficially
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.
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.
One of the starkest differences between charter and traditional district schools is in the area of facilities funding.
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.
Assessing parent satisfaction with distance learning
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.
Researching recent history
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
School reopening resources
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.
Thomas Sowell—writer, economist, social theorist, and currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution—is having a moment at age 90. He has long been a champion of high-quality education as a source of power for Black youth.
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.
When districts announce school transportation changes during the early days of summer break, they usually don’t cause a lot of consternation. It’s understandable that administrators would use the lazy days of summer to make scheduling adjustments and such.
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