Gadfly Bites 3/30/22—Next time leave out the fortune cookie

Gadfly Bites 3/28/22—Because the district might do what now?

“I want more”: Parental choice empowers Hispanic parents in Texas

Hispanic students make up the largest share of charter school students nationally, but research focusing specifically on Hispanic school choosers is lacking.

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.25.22

Potential impacts of new CSP rules

Gadfly Bites 3/25/22—Standouts

Gadfly Bites 3/23/22—“Less buildings make you more efficient”

Gadfly Bites 3/21/22—So hard

Not much to talk about today, but at least the clip we have features my colleague Aaron Churchill talking about a topic near and dear to all of

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.18.22

“A smart tool”

Gadfly Bites 3/18/22—Heads in the sand

Data guru Aaron Churchill is quoted here and some of his Fordham-produced data is cited as well on the topic of enrollment declines in Miami V

Gadfly Bites 3/16/22—Let’s call it wordsmithing

Lots of inaccurate and misleading information here, if you ask me, regarding the financial situation in Ross Local Schools.

Gadfly Bites 3/14/22—Debunked but still in use

Trust me, none of these elected school board members in Berea are any better informed about school choice than they were before the

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.11.22

Charter innovations

Gadfly Bites 3/11/22—Everybody needs a Yugo sometime, I guess

Don’t look now, but it seems that a number of Ohio school districts are tentatively starting to declare victory against the Covid slide in student progress and achievement.

Gadfly Bites 3/9/22—Schools of choice, people

A seeming hodgepodge of clips today, but the throughline is delish. Check it out. First up is an opinion piece from a long-time columnist at the Dayton Daily News with whom I am not familiar. Perhaps he has never written about education previously?

Gadfly Bites 3/7/22—Woe and whoa

While the days of multiple Columbus City Schools buildings “pivoting to remote learning” due to huge numbers of absent staff members seem to be over for now,

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.4.22

10,000 new charter schools needed

Gadfly Bites 3/4/22—I believe the proper term is “between gigs”

I am reasonably sure that some of you, my lovely readers, occasionally say to yourselves, “Gadfly Bites is being too hard on this or that media outlet; surely it is not skewing coverage of certain topics as much as our humble clips compiler thinks.” Perhaps you are correct from time to time, but piec

Gadfly Bites 3/2/22—Before the roadshow

Unnecessarily cranky headline here, if you ask me, but a generally even-keeled story on Ohio’s so-called “backpack funding”