Gadfly Bites 11/16/20 – Faraway lands—far away from reality, that is.
This is another one of those stories where kids and families are the focus of the discussion, but no one bothered to ask any kids or parents their thoughts.
This is another one of those stories where kids and families are the focus of the discussion, but no one bothered to ask any kids or parents their thoughts.
While students in grades 6-12 in Troy City Schools have indeed moved to fully-remote learning for a couple of weeks—as we talked about on Wednesday—
The Cleveland Public Library is partnering with nonprofit PCs for People to help distribute computers and WiFi hotspots for
A Catholic school in North Canton whipped from fully in-person learning to a fully-remote model last week (cancelling a day of school and weeks’ worth of planned sports a
Just your regular reminder, in case you are not a parent in K–12 education in Ohio—that there’s still a whipsaw pandemic going on out there.
Did you know that in Ohio you can place a levy reduction issue on the ballot? I didn’t either until I read this story.
Our own Aaron Churchill was large and in charge on the commentary page of Cleveland.com today, talking about the Cleveland-specific fi
The headline of this story asks “How is back-to-school going?” in the Cincinnati region. Folks quoted here largely say it’s going pretty well.
Fordham (probably our Ohio by the Numbers data although who can really tell?) is namechecked in this piece looking at the thorny subject of school funding.
We heard on Wednesday that the boost in rona cases across the state were a threat to in-person education.
COMPILER’S NOTE: Gadfly Bites will be on vacation next week. (“Thank goodness!” I hear you cry. “You need a break. Hopefully you will return refreshed, renewed, and ready to boost up what has been—let’s face it, man—your recent mediocre work.
Cincinnati City Schools is going to a hybrid in-person/remote model after all, starting next week.
In Cincinnati, some of the district’s whipsawed parents speak. (Spectrum News 1, 10/5/20)
Another day, another raft of evidence that parents looking for certainty are well and truly hosed.
For some reason meeting on a Saturday, the elected board of Dayton City Schools unanimously approved a phased-in plan to bring students back for a
Here’s an in-depth look at the first month of the school year at Xenia’s St. Brigid School.
Aren’t search engines great? With them, one can search for an important name (say, Aaron Churchill) and sometimes find references to that name in new places.
It’s Wednesday, and that means the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee will be hearing testimony today. One of the bills up for debate: SB 358. That’s the one that would, among other things, extend a moratorium on state testing from last school year to this one.
Be cool, man! The boss is in town.
In case you missed it earlier this week, Fordham’s Chad Aldis testified before th
“I just think it’s not a terribly appropriate time to be [measuring districts].
I’m not sure this piece reads as entirely objective journalism, but perhaps that’s because it is unusual to see
The Dispatch editorial board giveth… (Columbus Dispatch, 9/10/20) …and
Here’s a look at how schools in Montgomery County say they will address “the Covid slide” among their students.
We have heard a bit about school districts having trouble accessing enough laptops fo
Pretty darn quiet around here these days. To wit: we have just one clip for today.
We’ll start this week with another one of those detailed looks at the school choices being made by parents to get the best education for their children in light of
From an unlikely source comes this fantastic and very thorough look at families exercising school choice in response to the realities of a pandemic-influenced 2020-2021 s
We’re back on the clips beat from our Monday break. Lots to catch up on, so let’s go.
We’ll start today with one of the more bizarre stories to come down the pike in a while.