Gadfly Bites 3/1/23—Around the Statehouse
We start our state government tour with the Controlling Board, the members of w
We start our state government tour with the Controlling Board, the members of w
This national story is about how ability grouping in classrooms works, including findings from a number of studies into its effectiveness.
Governor DeWine’s budget recommendations are out, and they tackle a host of education issues.
Happening now in Ohio charter schools
Ohio has long underfunded charter schools. Back in 2004, we at Fordham published a Dayton-specific study finding that the city’s charters received just two-thirds of the revenue as the local district.
Nice coverage of Governor DeWine’s all-in push to make the science of reading the law of the land he
This feels like good news to me: It was announced last week that Ohio will join the group o
Celebration and appreciation
Ohio’s state auditor and the president of the Ohio Association of Community Colleges published
The Senate Education Committee heard testimony on SB 1 yesterday.
NOTE: Today, the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee heard testimony on SB 1
English learners (ELs) are students whose native language is other than English and who score below proficient on an English proficiency test. There were more than 5 million ELs in U.S.
As I was reading this piece about
Budget coverage, media style
There’s not much substantive detail in this coverage, but the Ohio Department o
Teacher shortages have been a hot topic over the last few years.
Let Ohio’s budget debate commence!
While Governor DeWine’s budget priorities included billions (billions I say!) to support a huge range of K-12 education priorities, lotsa folks out here in punditland only want to talk about proposed EdChoice Scholarship
Today, Governor Mike DeWine announced his state budget priorities for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 in his state of the state address. Among his K–12 education proposals include bold steps that would greatly strengthen Ohio’s school choice programs.
Many states fund students who utilize school choice—public charter schools, private school voucher programs, interdistrict open enrollment, and the like—via “passthrough” mechanisms whereby per-pupil funding goes into a student’s home district coffers first before being transferred to the schools that stud
The superintendent of LaBrae Local Schools (nope, me neither) has a list of interesting questions that
Celebrating National School Choice Week pt 1
There are, in my estimation, only two people in Ohio (outside of state government, that is) who truly understand our school funding system. Neither of them is me.
In December, state lawmakers rocked the boat during an otherwise sleepy lame duck session by moving forward with a proposal to significantly overhaul Ohio’s education governance structure.
Despite the somewhat-traditional National School Choice Week snowfall,