Gadfly Bites 1/27/21 – Celebrating National School Choice Week with clips
Our own Aaron Churchill had an op-ed in the Enquirer yesterday, discussing the findings of our recent re
Our own Aaron Churchill had an op-ed in the Enquirer yesterday, discussing the findings of our recent re
We start this week with a profile of the new Ohio Senate President, focusing almost entirely on education issues past, present and future.
I cannot and will not say that Fordham’s recent report on interdistrict open enrollment had anything to do with the announcement this we
We start today with a quick thanks to the folks at Gongwer, who briefly noted the release of Fordham’s new report on interdistrict open enrollment. Much appreciated! (Gongwer Ohio, 1/19/21)
I won’t call them silver linings—waaaaaay too soon for that (thanks to my cousin for schooling me on that, painful as that conversation might have been)—but it seems like certain adaptations to the pandemic could benefit students far beyond 2020.
Elected school boards across Ohio are holding their organizational meetings in the early part of January, with varying levels of drama emanating from them and into the pages of the local news.
Not much education news to chat about today.
No students in Columbus City Schools have attended in-person learning since March of 2020. Sports have been on hold since mid-November.
NOTE: This is our first regular Gadfly Bites edition for 2021, covering clips from 1/1 through 1/6/21. Huge thanks for reading and subscribing!
NOTE: We’re back with a catch up edition covering clips from 12/23 – 12/31/20. Hope you missed me! Wednesday’s edition will catch us up with clips from 2021 so far. Fingers crossed for sanity!
At this point, we’re all tired of hearing the word “unprecedented.” But clichés are clichés for a reason, and 2020 has certainly been an unprecedented year. Many of us would like nothing more than to leave this difficult year in the rearview mirror. Unfortunately, the events of 2020 seem likely to stretch into the new year.