Thomas B. Fordham Institute Proponent Testimony on Ohio House Bill 2
Chad's written testimony, delivered Feb 11, 2015.
Chad's written testimony, delivered Feb 11, 2015.
Inside Ohio’s new Quality Sponsor Practices Review (QSPR)
The good and the bad in recent Ohio education news
Governor Kasich released his FY 16-17 biennial budget today. True to his word, Kasich featured charter school reforms prominently, with a focus on improving sponsor quality, eliminating conflicts of interest, and addressing some of the funding inequities that plague charter schools.
How to spur innovation further
Real parent preferences revealed.
Clearing up common misconceptions
Technical high schools can thrive with the support of local businesses
Reaction to two recent Fordham-sponsored reports on charter schools continues.
Ohio on the cusp of big changes to charter school law
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in a slightly different form at Bellwether Education Partners' Ahead of the Herd blog.
Editor's note: This post originally appeared in slightly different form at the Chartering Quality blog.
Fixing Ohio’s charter law is a difficult, but necessary task. Chad L. Aldis and Aaron Churchill
Setting out the case for ten policy recommendations to improve the quality of Ohio's charter school sector.
An important new look at charter school quality in Ohio.
Good school choice practices emerge from a charter school crisis in Indianapolis.
The ins and outs of financing charter school facilities.
Blended learning: electronic babysitting, latest fad or education breakthrough?
Funding and quality in charter schools, views from 50,000 fee down to an individual school.
Attempt at "transparency" looks more like data spin.
Andy Smarick came to Columbus to talk about options for urban education in the future...starting now.
Supporting parents and students must be uppermost in any discussion of charter school authorization reform in Ohio. So far, their concerns seem to be last in consideration.
Do private schools taking "cherry pick" their voucher students?
The closure of a charter school in Cincinnati shows that Ohio's accountability system can work, but needs some tweaks.
Ohio’s new teacher-evaluation system requires evaluators to conduct two, formal thirty-minute classroom observations. Yet these legally prescribed observations seem ripe for compliance and rote box-checking; in fact, they may not be quite the impetus for school-wide improvement that policymakers had hoped for.
Short review of a new report from the University of Arkansas, with an Ohio perspective.
This new report from the University of Arkansas compares the productivity of public charter schools and district schools, both in terms of cost effectiveness and return on investment (ROI).
Will highly-touted (and heavily-funded) STEM skills translate into STEM jobs for graduates?
Parents make educational choices in the best interests of their children, but to many school districts involved in open enrollment, it's only about numbers on a spreadsheet.