Gadfly Bites 3/13/23—Traditions can change, thank heavens
Last week it was Chad on the spot, but the torch is being passed, so i
Last week it was Chad on the spot, but the torch is being passed, so i
In case you missed it, Charter News co-author Chad Aldis is leaving Ohio and returning to his native Iowa for a big important job. This is his last edition of the news, but our weekly roundups will continue with Jeff Murray as solo author.
In case you missed it, Fordham’s Vice President for Ohio Policy (a.k.a, my boss
Almost a decade ago, my former boss Terry Ryan wrote: “Education governance in Ohio is broken.... The governance structures for education in this state are multi-layered, fractured, and leaderless. No one is really in charge. The buck stops nowhere.”
Chad Aldis is among the analysts speaking on the topic of House Bill 11 in this piece
NOTE: Today, the Ohio House Primary and Secondary Education Committee heard testimony on HB 12 which would, among other things, make substantial changes to the state’s K-12
Only one clip today, but it’s another doozy.
Ohio Education By the Numbers
A couple more items from around the Statehouse lead us off today.
Ensuring that all Ohio students receive an excellent education remains an important priority for state and community leaders. As Governor DeWine himself recently noted, a quality education for all is a “moral imperative” for Ohio. Making good on this obligation starts with a solid understanding of the state of K-12 education in Ohio.
We start our state government tour with the Controlling Board, the members of w
This national story is about how ability grouping in classrooms works, including findings from a number of studies into its effectiveness.
Governor DeWine’s budget recommendations are out, and they tackle a host of education issues.
Happening now in Ohio charter schools
Ohio has long underfunded charter schools. Back in 2004, we at Fordham published a Dayton-specific study finding that the city’s charters received just two-thirds of the revenue as the local district.
Nice coverage of Governor DeWine’s all-in push to make the science of reading the law of the land he
This feels like good news to me: It was announced last week that Ohio will join the group o
In 2013, Mississippi passed a comprehensive early literacy policy aimed at ensuring that students can read proficiently by the end of third grade, which research shows is a make-or-break benchmark.
Celebration and appreciation
Ohio’s state auditor and the president of the Ohio Association of Community Colleges published
The Senate Education Committee heard testimony on SB 1 yesterday.
NOTE: Today, the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee heard testimony on SB 1
English learners (ELs) are students whose native language is other than English and who score below proficient on an English proficiency test. There were more than 5 million ELs in U.S.
As I was reading this piece about
Budget coverage, media style
There’s not much substantive detail in this coverage, but the Ohio Department o
Teacher shortages have been a hot topic over the last few years.