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Gadfly Bites 3/10/23—“Getting right into the meat and heat of it”
In case you missed it, Fordham’s Vice President for Ohio Policy (a.k.a, my boss
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Governance
School governance reforms preserve checks and balances, people’s voice
Almost a decade ago, my former boss Terry Ryan wrote: “Education governance in Ohio is broken.... The governance structures for education in this state are multi-layered, fractured, and leaderless. No one is really in charge. The buck stops nowhere.”
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 3/8/23—Not even on the world’s biggest dime
Chad Aldis is among the analysts speaking on the topic of House Bill 11 in this piece
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Governance
Testimony presented before the House Education Committee on House Bill 12—3/7/23
NOTE: Today, the Ohio House Primary and Secondary Education Committee heard testimony on HB 12 which would, among other things, make substantial changes to the state’s K-12
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School Finance
DeWine budget seeks to re-establish the student wellness and success fund
During his first term, Governor DeWine established a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at helping schools address the non-academic needs of students.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 3/6/23—Not-so-complex interplay
Only one clip today, but it’s another doozy.
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Gadfly Bites 3/3/23—The chicken or the egg
A couple more items from around the Statehouse lead us off today.
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Ohio Education By the Numbers—2023 Edition
Ensuring that all Ohio students receive an excellent education remains an important priority for state and community leaders. As Governor DeWine himself recently noted, a quality education for all is a “moral imperative” for Ohio. Making good on this obligation starts with a solid understanding of the state of K-12 education in Ohio.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 3/1/23—Around the Statehouse
We start our state government tour with the Controlling Board, the members of w
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Curriculum & Instruction
How senior-year math courses affect college enrollment and persistence
California is among a handful of states that require the least amount of high school math to earn a diploma—just two courses.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 2/27/23—Emergency triage
This national story is about how ability grouping in classrooms works, including findings from a number of studies into its effectiveness.
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Teachers & School Leaders
Budget proposal would help address Ohio’s substitute teacher shortage
Governor DeWine’s budget recommendations are out, and they tackle a host of education issues.
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Charter Schools
Ohio is narrowing the charter funding gap—but it still needs to do more
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.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 2/22/23—Now was that so hard?
Nice coverage of Governor DeWine’s all-in push to make the science of reading the law of the land he
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School Finance
Ohio’s new school funding formula: What is the “state share” mechanism, and will it function properly over the long term?
This being a budget year, state lawmakers will soon be delving into the minutia of school funding. To help inform these discussions, we’ve begun a series looking at Ohio’s funding system, including a deep-dive into the new formula that lawmakers enacted in 2021 and which Governor DeWine has proposed to maintain.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 2/20/23—Geeking out
This feels like good news to me: It was announced last week that Ohio will join the group o
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Accountability & Testing
What can Ohio learn from Mississippi’s early literacy initiatives?
In 2013, Mississippi passed a comprehensive early literacy policy aimed at ensuring that students can read proficiently by the end of third grade, which research shows is a make-or-break benchmark.
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Gadfly Bites 2/17/23—But you must act now!
Ohio’s state auditor and the president of the Ohio Association of Community Colleges published
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 2/15/23—The price is wrong
The Senate Education Committee heard testimony on SB 1 yesterday.
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Governance
Testimony presented before the Senate Education Committee on Senate Bill 1—2/14/23
NOTE: Today, the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee heard testimony on SB 1
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Curriculum & Instruction
The governor’s state of the state highlights his early literacy agenda
Last week, Governor DeWine delivered the first state of the state address of his second term.
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Teachers & School Leaders
The relationship between general education teachers and the success of English learners
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.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 2/13/23—“It may never be a perfect system”
As I was reading this piece about
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Gadfly Bites 2/10/23—Happy to share data
There’s not much substantive detail in this coverage, but the Ohio Department o
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Career & Technical Education
Governor DeWine begins his second term with a renewed focus on career and technical education
Since first taking office in 2019, Governor DeWine has consistently prioritized policies aimed at expanding and improving career-technical education (CTE).
