Local bureaucrats should stop standing in the way of charter schools seeking facilities
Public charter schools in Ohio have long struggled to secure adequate school facilities.
Public charter schools in Ohio have long struggled to secure adequate school facilities.
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As we approach September 2024, the education community is bracing for the expiration of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds. There’s a growing narrative that this marks a significant funding cut for schools.
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Although it’s a brand-new year, many Ohio students are still caught in the education riptide of the pandemic era.
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What is the impact of teacher salary increases on recruitment and retention? A new report gives us an interesting on-the-ground look using data from Washington State.
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A few days before Christmas, the Columbus Dispatch published a story detailing how Columbus City Schools (CCS) plans to spend over half a million dollars to “evaluate conditions at its
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.
Between 2007 and 2022, California saw its K–12 public school enrollment decrease by more than 390,000 students, or more than 6 percent statewide, according to data from the state’s Department of Education.
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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.
Relaxing licensure requirements for new teachers is one of many proposals being floated in order combat teacher shortages and diversify the pipel
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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
Real time classroom observations by trained evaluators hold promise to accurately assess the quality of teaching and learning going on inside those four walls; an as-yet-untapped area of “education R&D”.
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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
Too many students in Ohio are off-track—way off-track—in terms of meeting grade-level math and reading standards. Last school year, 32 percent of students statewide scored “limited”—the lowest achievement mark—on state math exams, while 20 percent scored at that level in English language arts (ELA).
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.
Teacher shortages have been a hot topic in Ohio for years.