The Cupp-Patterson funding plan gives school choice the cold shoulder
Note: This is the fifth in a series of blog posts on school funding in Ohio; for the previous posts, see here,
Note: This is the fifth in a series of blog posts on school funding in Ohio; for the previous posts, see here,
“Go visit a charter school”
The best charter school-related story you’ll read this week
Digging into charter school ratings across the state
School turnaround policy for Ohio districts, including Youngstown and Lorain, has attracted tremendous attention in recent months.
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The view from the debate stage
An on-the-ground perspective from California
“A lot of people have strong opinions on both sides.”
Worker skills and employer needs are often misaligned. Young people, for instance, may leave high school or college with a sturdy grounding in math and English, but ill-equipped to manage a customer database, take a patient’s vital signs, or handle a piece of machinery.
Charter student enrollment numbers decline again
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In honor of the waning of summer, this week’s edition consists of vacation/beach reads for charter school leaders. News you can definitely use to fill those last long, lingering evenings.
Separate, underfunded, wrongly-maligned
Charter schools in Ohio, post-budget
For many years, first-rate charter networks looked at Ohio and immediately “swiped left.” Sadly, the state’s charter sector had a well-earned reputation for mediocre performance, was too often mired in
Ohio has been locked in the jaws of a busy budget season for months. There’s been no shortage of debate on a variety of education policies, including graduation requirements, academic distress commissions, and school choice.
The little-understood role of charter sponsors
Let’s take it from the top
Real estate agents to the rescue?
Charter school funding in the biennial budget
Teach For America (TFA) has been recruiting and placing college graduates into underserved classrooms since 1989. Throughout this thirty-year tenure, the program’s teacher-training methods and recruitment strategies have evolved.
Settlement reached with former ECOT sponsor
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham I
Race match in charter vs traditional public schools
Last month, The Foundation for Excellence in Education and Burning Glass Technologies released
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we belie