Gadfly Bites 1/28/22—Newsworthiness is in the eye of the beholder
Jeff MurrayI was a little flippant about the ADC district audit story on Wednesday (how not unusual, I hear you all cry), so I decided to look at the media coverage a little more closely today.
Gadfly Bites 1/26/22—New elected board present, same as the last two
Jeff MurrayIt is, purportedly, a new day in the three Ohio school districts still nominally overseen by Academic Distress Commissions.
Fordham Institute statement on new national charter school rankings
Ohio Education GadflyToday, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) released its latest review of states’ charter school policies. This year, NAPCS ranked Ohio’s charter law as 12th out of 44 states plus the District of Columbia, a significant increase when compared to the state’s ranking in 2021 (24th).
Gadfly Bites 1/24/22—Even the definition of “flexible” is not stable in a pandemic.
Jeff MurrayI said I wasn’t likely to clip stories about schools opening/closing/going remote unless they were excessively interesting to me. This one qualifies. Pickerington City Schools in suburban central Ohio has created a new plan to deal with staff shortages due to the pandemic.
Gadfly Bites 1/21/22—Thank U, Next
Jeff MurrayCareer-themed schools are still a thing in Toledo City School District, including what we’ll call
Gadfly Bites 1/19/22—Wacky Wednesday
Jeff MurrayAn interesting discussion of the importance of education in the Black community comes to us from Lima.
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 1.14.22
Chad L. Aldis, Jeff MurrayGroveport Madison Local Schools have sued the state of Ohio in response to a massive fine levied upon them for failing to properly transport resident charter and private school students over
Gadfly Bites 1/14/22—Can we send a phalanx of bunnies to DC?
Jeff MurrayOhio is one of 19 states whose state chapter withdrew from the National Association of School Boards last year in reaction to….well, you know.
Gadfly Bites 1/12/22—Bureaucracy strikes again
Jeff MurrayLast week, it was the new school funding system delayed due to the…intricacies...of operationalizing new legislation.
Gadfly Bites 1/10/22—Cold doses of reality
Jeff MurrayOSU professor and Columbus City Schools dad Vladimir Kogan hit the pages of the Dispatch today with a cold dose of reality.
Gadfly Bites 1/7/22—The future could be now
Jeff MurrayI’m sure my long-suffering tenured subscribers have noted that I am not clipping stories about which schools are closed/open/remote/in-person/hybrid/winging it due to SARS-CoV-2-related issues these days, despite the fact that education reporters (and government reporters and crime reporters a
Gadfly Bites 1/5/22—New lawsuit just dropped!
Jeff MurrayRemember last year when Red (Taylor’s Version) dropped and everyone was really excited that Taylor Swift had rerecorded her amazing album—making it even better in the process—in order to reclaim ownership of her music?
Gadfly Bites 1/4/22—“A great choice for us.”
Jeff MurrayWe’re back a day early (that’ll teach you!) with a roundup of clips we missed between December 22 and 31, 2021. Back with regular thrice-weekly publication for 2022 starting tomorrow. You have been warned.
Predicting the top Ohio education issues for 2022
Jessica PoinerEvery holiday season, those of us at the Ohio Gadfly try to predict what the new year will bring for education. This year is no exception.