Gadfly Bites 3/4/19 – Parallels
This piece about a group of high-performing charter school
This piece about a group of high-performing charter school
A thorough overview of Ohio's charter/community school governance framework
Editors in Columbus opined yesterday on at least part of the findings in the latest CREDO study of charter school performance in Ohio.
In case you missed it, researchers
At least one district treasurer in Butler County finds the biennial state budget process “complicated and scary”.
Authorized in 2005, Academic Distress Commissions (ADCs) are the state’s mechanism for int
In the waning days of January, Chiefs for Change—a nonprofit, bipartisan network comprising state and district education chiefs, including Oh
In case you haven’t been following it (and who can blame you with everything else going on here?), a battle royale has been raging in neighboring West Virg
In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, pundits and analysts were hyper-focused on rural communities.
As Ohio’s high school diplomas erode in value, there will be a growing need for students to demonstrate knowledge and skills through other means.
The Path Forward series returns to the pages of Dayton Daily News, chronicling the efforts of Dayton City Schools to avoid state takeover start serv
We told you a while back about a Toledo native and “herbal entrepreneur” (shall we say) who says
This week’s Dayton City Schools board meeting was supposed to be about reading and reviewing a draft strategic plan for future awesomeness.
The Speaker of the Ohio House held an (extremely) informal presser late last week, talking about his priorities for the new General Assembly session.
Last summer, President Trump signed into law the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act.
Compiler’s note: The hellacious weather around here has destroyed my productivity this week so today you lucky lucky subscribers (I love all five of you—truly) will get to see behind the scenes of what I laughingly call my “process”. Below is simply the list of clips I’ve got for you today, with a couple of words to denote why it’s interesting/important/worth clipping.
Nina Rees, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, t
With popular, bipartisan support, career-and-technical education (CTE) is being embraced by policymakers across the
During his inauguration in early January, Governor Mike DeWine spoke of his desire to use education to improve Ohio. “Education is the key to equality and the key to opportunity,” he said.
Our own Aaron Churchill had an op-ed in the Di
We start today with further praise for the Say Yes to Education program
When I was in school, a B- grade was nothing to rest upon.
We start today with sad (ish) news.
Here are two variations of how Lorain City Schools CEO’s first Town Hall meeting of 2019 went. They are somewhat different in tone and content.