By the Company It Keeps: The U.S. Department of Education
This interview with the United States Department of Education is the third and final installment in our Common Core testing consortia series
This interview with the United States Department of Education is the third and final installment in our Common Core testing consortia series
The Dayton Early College Academy (DECA) is Dayton’s highest performing high school (district or charter), but is being trashed by a Columbus organization.
With potential tactics still in play to sustain the voucher expansion, it is likely that this ruling will simply be a pothole on the road to voucher expansion in Louisiana
A tricky line of research gets worthy treatment
Our Gadfly readers won’t
About 8,000 children had already been promised vouchers for next year when the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled its method of funding unconstitutional
Few school systems have embraced a crisis of opportunity quite like the school system in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
A coalition that included high performing charter schools from Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton testified in front of the Senate Finance Committee’s Education Subcommittee on May 7th.
The Reynoldsburg City School District, just east of Columbus, is far down the “portfolio management” path – further than probably any suburban school district of its size. This feature article discusses portfolio management and takes readers behind the scenes in Reynoldsburg.
As the charter movement enters its third decade, it is imperative that policymakers and legislators understand the perspective of those schools that have succeeded in providing their students with a quality education.
Despite the surge in charter enrollment, charters still largely direct money from instruction, classroom support, and administration to their facilities
Snaps to Gov.
This report is great data on a critically important field
When boards are mere rubber stamps, questions about accountability, incentives, and conflicts of interest are sure to follow
The most significant governance innovation since charter schools?
Capacity is something that requires ongoing maintenance and at least an annual critique.
Have a high performing charter school? Chances are it’s got a savvy board whose membership consists of mission-aligned individuals with diverse professional expertise and experience that is leveraged to advance a strategic and defined vision, and achieve a specific set of goals.
Is it time for Ohio and other states to take bolder steps toward turning around our most troubled schools and districts?
It may seem absurd that one of California’s worst-performing school districts can kill the state’s finest charter school network. But that is the reality facing the 650 mostly poor and minority, but very high-achieving students enrolled at the American Indian Model charter schools.
The National Education Association is suing Florida for its teacher-evaluation policy;
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting today that Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools will be discontinuing their experiment with charter school creation at the end of this school year.
The Obama administration’s budget proposal was late to the par
Principals feel the heat—but their response is lukewarm
John Dues, school director for Columbus Collegiate Academy, wrote a response to a charter-school critic's piece that recently appeared as a Letter to the Editor in The Columbus Dispatch.
Discover the three canards about charter schools that have been repeated in news stories and by anti-charter folks in Ohio.
Traditional district boundaries are becoming increasingly blurred.
Ohio’s urban educational systems are talent deserts - Teach For America provides water, and if done right, oases of talent
The Fordham Institute has been engaged in a wide range of conversations recently, ranging from the Common Core to teacher evaluations in subjects without well-established exams. If you’ve missed any of these events or publications, check out the following notes.