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Ohio Charter News Weekly – 8.27.21
Ohio Charter News Weekly will be on hiatus next week; returning on 9/10/21. Kudos
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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.
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Private School Choice
An overview of Ohio’s recently-enacted family-friendly voucher changes
For nearly twenty years, EdChoice has provided tens of thousands of students with the opportunity to attend private schools via state-funded scholarships, also known as vouchers.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/23/21—“A great challenge”
Schools across the Miami Valley areas, including charter and private schools, are finding it even more challenging than usual, they say, in filling
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Accountability & Testing
What supports do high schoolers need to achieve their college enrollment goals?
Post-secondary preparation supports are numerous and common in high schools across the country.
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Gadfly Bites 8/20/21—From summer into autumn
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
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Gadfly Bites 8/18/21—Built to last
We will top and tail today’s edition of the Bites with two “say what?” clips.
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Governance
Big opportunities await Ohio’s next state superintendent
Earlier this summer, Ohio’s state superintendent Paolo DeMaria announced his retirement, effective in September.
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Gadfly Bites 8/16/21—BTS
The Dispatch is celebrating the first day of school today—for a year that they characteri
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Teachers & School Leaders
NCTQ sheds light on Ohio teacher licensure exams
Before they can stand in front of a classroom full of students, most prospective teachers have to pass state licensure exams. But how many candidates pass those exams on the first try and how many need multiple attempts? Which schools fare best at readying their students for these exams?
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/13/21—You say school choice is the problem, do you?
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
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Private School Choice
No, EdChoice is not the cause of racial segregation
Opponents of school choice in Ohio continue to threaten a lawsuit seeking to eradicate the state’s largest private-school scholarship program, known as
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/11/21—Gone the way of the “venerable” magnet school campouts
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
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Teachers & School Leaders
Want great teachers and higher achievement? A study from Wisconsin suggests trying flexible pay.
The vast majority of Ohio teachers are paid according to salary schedules that reward seniority and degrees earned, the result of state l
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/9/21—Planning hopefully
The new school year is starting up in an increasing number of schools and districts around Ohio.
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Gadfly Bites 8/6/21—Sorta weird
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
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The case for partisan school board elections
This November, Americans will cast their votes in thousands of local school board races. The stakes couldn’t be higher. These governing bodies will decide how public schools handle hot-button issues like masking requirements and critical race theory.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/4/21—Finding your “E”
I know we’re not supposed to talk about “Covid slide” among kids because there is no such thing.
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Accountability & Testing
What explains the pre-pandemic improvement in Cleveland schools?
During summer 2012, Governor Kasich signed House Bill 525, legislation that allowed the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) to implement a city-wide school turnaround plan.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/2/21—“If we come out of this and everything looks the same, then shame on us.”
As we noted on Friday, Woodcrest Elementary in Columbus City Schools started the new school year last week.
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Gadfly Bites 7/30/21—The new school year is upon some of us already
In case you missed it, the Ohio Department of Health this week released its Covid guidance for K-12 schools for the new school year
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Gadfly Bites 7/28/21—August might be an illusion
We’re back after a week’s vacation. Let’s get caught up!
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Gadfly Bites 7/21/21—Just a skosh
Bites will be on vacation for the next week. Back on Wednesday, July 28, with what I hope will be a more scintillating edition than this one. To wit…
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 7/19/21—Kids in uniform
Only two clips for today, and both of them are military-focused. How nice!
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