Gadfly Bites 4/16/21 – The fox guarding the henhouse
There is no author attributed to this commentary piece regarding school report card reform options (and school funding and several other things) so I have no idea who to thank for
There is no author attributed to this commentary piece regarding school report card reform options (and school funding and several other things) so I have no idea who to thank for
We start out today with a great, in-depth look back at this school year as experienced in
Although most schools have returned to some semblance of in-person learning for families who want it, education researchers and analysts are still working to gauge the impact of extended school closures.
The editors at Vindy.com seem preoccupied with Ohio’s lowly ranking in a recent WalletHub report on return on taxpayer investment in education.
There appears to be a difference of opinion among several of the elected school board members in charge of Wellington Exempted Village Schools if this piece is any indication.
Fordham’s Aaron Churchill gives Cleveland.com a history lesson in this piece, explaining how school funding has changed, and how subsequen
Hey! Have you heard of this brand new media outlet called The Week?! I stumbled across it in my searching for clips for you, loyal subscribers, and I have to assume that it’s brand new (despite what its masthead would suggest).
Annual school report cards play an important role in healthy, accountable K–12 education systems.
In case you didn’t know, dedicated Gadfly Bites subscribers, your humble clips compiler is the quintessential “old dog”. As such, acquisition of “new tricks” is something of a challenge.
School attendance is compulsory for K–12 students, but getting kids to school every day is often difficult for families. Most parents want their children to attend school. But for those living in poverty, competing needs like jobs, medical appointments, and sibling care sometimes render school a lower priority.
Perhaps Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock had it wrong all those years ago?
Maybe y’all saw this? Apparently Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Eric Gordon participated on some national panel with U.S. Ed Sec Cardona this week about school reopening.
Somehow, I don't think Bay Village City Schools is going to be submitting much of a remediation plan to Governor DeWine by the April 1 deadline.
Here’s another story that strives to answer the question “How awesome are pandemic learning pods?” Unfortunately for the way my brain wor
Fordham is namechecked in this piece on the passage of HB 67 out of the General Assembly earlier this week.
For more than two decades, report cards have offered Ohioans an annual check on the quality of public schools. They have strived to ensure that schools maintain high expectations for all students, to provide parents with a clear signal when standards are not being met, and to identify high-performing schools whose practices are worth emulating.
As we noted here in the Bites last Friday, there is a legislative effort clanking to life which would, if successful, pretty well gut Ohio’s
NOTE: On March 16, 2021, the Ohio Senate’s Primary and Secondary Education Committee heard testimony on HB 67, a bill which would, among other provisions, make changes to the state’s graduation requirements in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Concerns over the increased potential for cheating are front and center in debates
Bougie Wyoming City Schools in suburban Cincinnati hit the big time with this lengthy feature in the Wall Street Journ
Today marks one year since Governor DeWine announced schools would close in response to the oncoming coronavirus pandemic and lots of media outlets are jumping on the “one year later” bandwagon with some doom, a whole lot of gloom, a shot at lessons learned, and a ton of enlightening anecdotes.
Last week, the Ohio House passed legislation (HB 67) that addressed graduation requirements and a few other issues in K–12 education.
According the good folks at Cleveland.com, a deal was reached and CMSD teachers are supposed to be back in their classrooms today, finally starting
As I write this, your humble clips compiler has not seen anything to indicate what’s happening in Cleveland Metropolitan School District classrooms this morning, but absent any news to the contrary, one assumes that union teachers held to their previous statement and stayed home as they promised they
In case you missed it all, the amended version of HB 67 we previewed on Monday was heard and voted out of its House
Some testimony was heard in the legislature this week on the latest version of a school funding overhaul bill, including from our own Chad Aldis.
Last week, the Ohio House unveiled House Bill 110, the legislative vehicle for Governor DeWine’s budget proposal.
I include this piece in the clips today due to the fact that data from Fordham’s fantastic Ohio By the Numbers annually-update trove of vital education information is used within it.
Here’s a bit more coverage of Chad’s testimony—and that of Ohio Excels’ Lisa Gray—given this week in support of conducting testing this sp