Gadfly Bites 8/25/21—Tears, no tears, and happy tears
Gadfly Bites will be on vacation for a bit, you lucky readers; but your luck runs out on 9/8/21 when it all starts again.
Gadfly Bites will be on vacation for a bit, you lucky readers; but your luck runs out on 9/8/21 when it all starts again.
Schools across the Miami Valley areas, including charter and private schools, are finding it even more challenging than usual, they say, in filling
Here’s the final look at Columbus City Schools’ summer program this year, including the news that 112 of the 412 seniors in the class of 2021 w
We will top and tail today’s edition of the Bites with two “say what?” clips.
Earlier this summer, Ohio’s state superintendent Paolo DeMaria announced his retirement, effective in September.
The Dispatch is celebrating the first day of school today—for a year that they characteri
An interesting, if tangential topic to start our Friday: The latest annual report on poverty trends from the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies notes an ongoing lack of broadband access in some parts of the s
I have to admit I didn’t realize just how venerable (for lack of a better word) those schools-specific public transit routes for Cincinnati City Schools students were—in use for more than 40 years—which explains to my satisfaction why district officials were so incensed when they learned that those r
The new school year is starting up in an increasing number of schools and districts around Ohio.
RedefinED’s Matthew Ladner posits that a number of factors—including an ongoing baby bust, that crazy little thing called ‘rona, and the recent removal of restrictions on where charter schools can locate—will c
I know we’re not supposed to talk about “Covid slide” among kids because there is no such thing.
As we noted on Friday, Woodcrest Elementary in Columbus City Schools started the new school year last week.