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Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Ten years of steady growth
NOTE: Today, the Ohio Senate Education Committee heard testimony on Substitute Senate Bill 295 which proposes substantive changes to the closure requirements for public schools across the state.
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Charters serving students with special needs
Helping parents evaluate their educational options is an important component to effective implementation of school choice policies. Giving them more and better information from which to compare options will likely become essential if choice continues to proliferate.
Our 2023-24 Sponsorship Annual Report details our work providing monitoring, oversight, and technical assistance to ten schools across sixteen campuses that served approximately 6,300 students in Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Portsmouth, Ohio.
A new rating system for student readiness is nearly completed and could be part of Ohio's school report cards next year. However, we recommend some improvements before it is fully rolled out.
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Columbus transportation concerns may escalate
In 2001, Congress enacted No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the much-discussed statute that, among other things, required states to identify their lowest-performing schools and help them improve. In 2015, in an effort to address perceived problems with NCLB, lawmakers revised the law into its current form, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. One final post-election news story
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Post-election news pt. 1 – Kentucky
Without a strong third grade retention policy, it’s a sure bet that Ohio students who cannot read proficiently are being promoted to fourth grade. We look at the data which starkly illustrate the problematic return of “social promotion.”
The Economist recently made the case that the United States economy is the envy of the world.
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Following up
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Not very neighborly
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. The champion and the championed
Under the bold leadership of Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted, Ohio lawmakers enacted the Quality Community Schools Support Fund (QCSSF) in 2019.
Today, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute honored Ohio Lt. Governor Jon Husted with the 2024 Champion for Charter Schools Award.
Thanks to the leadership of Governor DeWine, Lieutenant Governor Husted, and the General Assembly, Ohio has recently made significant strides in narrowing the charter funding gap. Our latest report is an evaluation of the high-quality charter funding program.
Fordham recently published results from a parent survey on educational opportunity in Ohio.
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. New panelists announced; last change to register for October 17 event!
The jury remains out regarding the true impact of pre-K enrollment on early elementary outcomes. Some research finds a positive impact, some a negative, and much of it shows the fading out of impacts by third grade or soon thereafter.
Author update (10/11/24): Since this piece was posted, sources have indicated Canton’s kindergarten data were misstated on its report card—a possibility acknowledged in this piece. The district's report card, as well as its elementary school report cards, now have “watermarks” flagging the data reporting error and indicating that the error may have impacted the ratings.
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Small win for charter school families in Columbus
One of the most pressing challenges facing American education is closing achievement gaps.
New early literacy data from state report cards are part of the baseline from which we can measure the impact of Science of Reading reforms going forward. Here’s a look at ten Ohio districts whose results fill in important details for the future.
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Legal wrangling over busing in Columbus escalates
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Ohio has a lot to be proud of when it comes to the post-pandemic academic recovery—but also much work left to do. That’s the message that comes out of my recent analysis of spring 2024 state assessment data released earlier this month.
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. State report cards released
