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.
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.
With the past year now in the books, it’s time to look back. During 2023, we at Fordham wrote extensively about the biggest and most important policy issues of the past year, most of which were debated as part of the state budget process.
This is our last edition of 2023. Thanks for reading and subscribing. We’ll be back on Friday, January 5, 2024. Happy New Year!
One of the best kept secrets in education policy is that Ohio policymakers have set achievement goals for Buckeye State students.
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Lawsuit update
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Burgeoning school choice – Michigan
In late November, two large urban Ohio school districts publicly engaged in academic goal-setting exercises. They ended very differently.
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. An opening
Our 2022-23 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report shares our work during the last school year, overseeing thirteen schools that served approximately 6,000 students in Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati and Portsmouth, Ohio.
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. The world of data
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Welcome, Director Dackin!
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Fighting student absenteeism in Ohio
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Education governance in Ohio finally changes
This is the second of two editions this week, focusing on Ohio charter news stories and catching us up from our long vacation break.
This is a special Thursday edition, the first of two catching up on news from our long vacation break; another edition will follow on Friday. Legacy
“Social promotion,” the practice of pushing struggling students from one grade to the next regardless of their academic readiness, can have damaging long-term effects.
For nearly two decades, Ohio’s EdChoice program has unlocked private school options for tens of thousands of students by offering state-funded scholarships.
Ohio Charter News will be taking a two week vacation break after today – returning on October 20. The biggest news
Academic Distress Commissions (ADCs) have a long and controversial history in Ohio.
For more than two decades, Ohio’s school report cards have shed light on the strengths and weaknesses of the state’s public schools. This year’s report card is no different.
The first pandemic-influenced data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) test are in. Unsurprisingly, an initial analysis says the news is bad.
This morning, the Ohio Department of Education released its annual school report cards based on results from the 2022-23 school year. This year’s iteration makes clear that the impacts of the pandemic on student learning are still being felt, especially for students from less advantaged backgrounds.
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As has been widely reported, students in Ohio and across the nation suffered major setbacks during the pandemic. Between 2019 and 2022, Ohio students lost on average the equivalent of roughly one-half grade-level of learning.
When classes moved abruptly online at Iowa State University in March 2020 as part of Covid-mitigation actions statewide, psychology professor Jason Chan expected big changes in student behavior. Specifically, he worried about his students being easily able to cheat on unproctored online exams.