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Gadfly Bites 1/22/24—Refurbished and ready to grow
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 1.19.24
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. On the grow in Toledo
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 1/19/24—Paradoxical or just ironic?
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 1/17/24—Go to school like it’s your job!
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School Finance
Teacher pay increases and their impacts on salary level, hiring, and turnover
What is the impact of teacher salary increases on recruitment and retention? A new report gives us an interesting on-the-ground look using data from Washington State.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 1.12.24
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Ensuring student safety
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 1/12/24—No, it’s just good news
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Charter Schools
If Columbus closes its under-enrolled schools, don’t blame charters
A few days before Christmas, the Columbus Dispatch published a story detailing how Columbus City Schools (CCS) plans to spend over half a million dollars to “evaluate conditions at its
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Curriculum & Instruction
Encouraging peer teacher collaboration can boost Ohio’s science of reading efforts
Last year, state legislators enacted reforms that require Ohio schools to follow the science of reading, an approach to literacy instruction that
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 1/10/24—Sewage overload is already happening
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Gadfly Bites 1/8/24—She says, he says, she says
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 1.5.24
We’re back after a holiday break. Covering stories from 12/22/23 – 1/5/24. Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 1/5/24—The future
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Governance
Policymakers must remember that micromanaging schools is typically a suboptimal strategy
Powerful incentives compel policymakers to micromanage public organizations by imposing stifling directives, rules, and procedures, sometimes rendering those organizations rigid and ineffective. The incentive to micromanage tends to become stronger as political attention and conflict increase, and as our trust in government declines.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 1/3/24—Eyebrow raisers
Welcome back to our first edition of 2024. Sorry you didn’t have anything better to do on January 2 than this.
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Governance
Predicting the top Ohio education issues for 2024
It’s the start of another year, and that means it’s time for us at the Ohio Gadfly to predict what awaits in the next twelve months. In light of last year’s historic budget bill, there’s plenty on the agenda.
