Ohio Charter News Weekly – 12.22.23
This is our last edition of 2023. Thanks for reading and subscribing. We’ll be back on Friday, January 5, 2024. Happy New Year!
This is our last edition of 2023. Thanks for reading and subscribing. We’ll be back on Friday, January 5, 2024. Happy New Year!
Between 2007 and 2022, California saw its K–12 public school enrollment decrease by more than 390,000 students, or more than 6 percent statewide, according to data from the state’s Department of Education.
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Lawsuit update
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Burgeoning school choice – Michigan
Relaxing licensure requirements for new teachers is one of many proposals being floated in order combat teacher shortages and diversify the pipel
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. An opening
Our 2022-23 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report shares our work during the last school year, overseeing thirteen schools that served approximately 6,000 students in Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati and Portsmouth, Ohio.
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. The world of data
Real time classroom observations by trained evaluators hold promise to accurately assess the quality of teaching and learning going on inside those four walls; an as-yet-untapped area of “education R&D”.
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Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Fighting student absenteeism in Ohio
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Education governance in Ohio finally changes
Too many students in Ohio are off-track—way off-track—in terms of meeting grade-level math and reading standards. Last school year, 32 percent of students statewide scored “limited”—the lowest achievement mark—on state math exams, while 20 percent scored at that level in English language arts (ELA).
This is the second of two editions this week, focusing on Ohio charter news stories and catching us up from our long vacation break.
This is a special Thursday edition, the first of two catching up on news from our long vacation break; another edition will follow on Friday. Legacy
Teacher shortages have been a hot topic in Ohio for years.
For nearly two decades, Ohio’s EdChoice program has unlocked private school options for tens of thousands of students by offering state-funded scholarships.
Ohio Charter News will be taking a two week vacation break after today – returning on October 20. The biggest news
In 2011, Ohio lawmakers introduced a state initiative focused on new teachers—specifically, those who were in the first four years of their career.
Some Ohio public schools may be headed for a world of hurt.
The start of a new school year means that big yellow school buses are back on the road. For many, they’re a welcome sign that a familiar routine has resumed. For others, they spark nostalgia. But for district and school administrators across Ohio, the sight of a yellow bus likely spurs stress and concern thanks to widespread bus driver shortages.
Between expanded voucher eligibility, funding increases for charter schools,
The time to close charter funding gaps is now