Ohio Charter News Weekly – 10.18.19
Congratulations to Ohio’s high quality charter schools!
Congratulations to Ohio’s high quality charter schools!
Lorain City Schools is no stranger to negative headlines.
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.
NOTE: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute occasionally publishes guest commentaries on its blogs. The views expressed by guest authors do not necessarily reflect those of Fordham.
Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts on school funding in Ohio.
The view from the debate stage
An on-the-ground perspective from California
“A lot of people have strong opinions on both sides.”
The first two blog posts in my series about school funding lo
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
NOTE: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute occasionally publishes guest commentaries on its blogs. The views expressed by guest authors do not necessarily reflect those of Fordham.
In late June, Representatives Robert Cupp and John Patterson introduced legislation that would overhaul the state’s school funding system.
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
In the coming weeks, I’ll be working on a blog series that digs into Ohio’s school funding system.
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?
Covering a gamut of issues and spanning thousands of pages, the state budget legislation is apt to contain at least a few harebrained policy ideas.