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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.18.26
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/18/26—Professor Kogan says: Always read the appendixes
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Career & Technical Education
Ohio takes a big step forward in tracking students’ workforce outcomes
Last month, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce (DEW) unveiled a pair of brand-new resources that provide a snapshot of education and workforce outcomes for the state’s graduates.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/16/26—Inching forward
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Accountability & Testing
Fordham Institute statement on Ohio school report cards
Today, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce released school report cards for the 2025–26 school year. Data include state math and reading exam results as well as high school graduation and chronic absenteeism rates.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/14/26—The calculus of asterisks
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.11.26
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. News about news
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/11/26—The favorite side-gig of cowpokes and weavers
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/9/26—More anomalies than you can shake a stick at
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Career & Technical Education
Ohio should tidy its high-priority IWIP industry credentials list, too
In Ohio, the big news in the career pathways realm is the state’s recent revamp of the
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Teachers & School Leaders
Three lessons Ohio could learn on career advising from Texas
For nearly a year, state lawmakers have been mulling legislation that would help Ohio build on its career-connected learning efforts. Senate Bill 328, which was passed unanimously by the Senate and is currently in the House, primarily focuses on K–12 students and schools.
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Personalized Learning
Examining education sector mixing within homeschool families
Homeschooling in the United States is often imagined as an all-or-nothing decision: Families who choose it do so full-time, for all their children, across their entire K–12 education.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.4.26
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/4/26—A narrow window
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Governance
What to know about 3-year bachelor’s degrees
College isn’t cheap. Families and students pay the direct cost of tuition and fees, and students—because they are sitting in classrooms—forego potential wages that could be earned at work. Taxpayers also subsidize students’ education.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/2/26—Against the grain
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Charter Schools
Gadfly Bites 8/31/26—Money for nothin’
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 8.28.26
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/28/26—Welcome changes
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Gadfly Bites 8/26/26—Putting in the effort
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School Finance
The “state share” of school funding and the 20 mill property tax floor
Media coverage will have you believe that the state is “starving” Ohio school districts of money. That is far from the truth, which a proper understanding of the education funding system reveals.
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Personalized Learning
Digging into the findings of The American Teenagers Survey
How are today’s teenagers different from previous generations?
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Teachers & School Leaders
Ohio takes its eye off the teacher shortage ball
A few years ago, teacher shortages were a hot topic in Ohio.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/24/26—Churchillmaxxing
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 8.21.26
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Charters on the rise in Cleveland – pt. 1
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/21/26—School choices on the rise
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Accountability & Testing
Ohio explores improvements to its statewide assessment
Newly-enacted Senate Bill 276 has the potential to make state tests a lot more useful to families and schools going forward. Here’s how.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/19/26—What passes for math
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Accountability & Testing
The Next Chapter: Ohio’s implementation of the science of reading—and where to next
Our latest report documents the significant work Ohio has undertaken to implement science of reading reforms, while also recommending ways that policymakers can further strengthen implementation.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 8.14.26
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. A new model of transportation
