Gadfly Bites 2/24/21 – Fire up the Scantron, y’all!
In case you missed it, late on Monday the U.S. Department of Education announced that it would not be offering testing waivers to states for this school year.
In case you missed it, late on Monday the U.S. Department of Education announced that it would not be offering testing waivers to states for this school year.
NOTE: On Tuesday, February 23, 2021, members of the House Primary and Secondary Education Committee heard testimony on House Bill 67 which would seek to waive testing in Ohio’s schools for the 2020–21 school year.
Last spring, Governor DeWine signed legislation that eliminated state tests and paused school accountability sanctions for the 2019–20 school year. Efforts by the education establishment to extend these changes through the 2020–21 school year began almost immediately.
The headline of this piece on Dayton area school reopenings grabbed my attention the moment I saw it.
Fordham’s Chad Aldis appeared on the redefinED podcast with host Matt Ladner, talking about the state of interdistrict open enrollment in the Buckeye S
Under pressure from the school establishment and teachers unions, Ohio lawmakers recently filed bills that seek to cancel state assessments this spring.
We start today in one of the bougiest of central Ohio’s bougie burbs: New Albany-Plain Local Schools.
In case you missed it, Governor DeWine reappeared before the press—Columbo-style—just as everyone was heading out for the weekend late on Friday.
There may be eight inches of snow on the ground here, but our Chad Aldis was on the radio this week talking about summer school.
Interdistrict open enrollment, one of the longest running and most popular forms of school choice, unlocks public school options for more than 80,000 Ohio students. It allows children to attend school in a district other than the one they live in.
As we noted on Friday, someone was bound to come along with more detail on the Ohio student enrollment data released la
NOTE: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute occasionally publishes guest commentaries on its blogs. The views expressed by guest authors do not necessarily reflect those of Fordham.
I am certain that someone with a bit more knowledge will dig into these data a little more soon—you know, someone who at least knows that charter schools are public schools—but
Aaron Churchill’s recent op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch—in support of state testing this year—drew
We’ll lead with the big stuff. Editors in Columbus opined strongly in favor of conducting state testing in schools this spring.
In early December, InnovateOhio—a statewide initiative that aims to use technology to make state government more efficient and effective—announced th
Juxtaposition 1: A celebration of school choice, with the other side’s position included for
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.