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Commentary
11.2.2009
Charter Schools

Making middle schools work

By guest blogger and Fordham's Director of Charter School Sponsorship Kathryn Mullen Upton

Commentary
10.27.2009
Charter Schools

Churches and charters: what do you think?

Emmy L. Partin

A central Ohio church has appealed the Ohio Department of Education's denial of its application to become a charter school authorizer (more on the story here, subscription required):

Commentary
10.16.2009
Charter Schools

Continued debate on charter schools in Ohio

Jamie Davies O'Leary

While we at Fordham view the results of the much talked about Hoxby charter study as encouraging and a good rebuttal to charter critics, here's a reminder of the antagonism towa

Commentary
8.28.2009
Charter Schools

Majority of Americans misinformed about charters

Jamie Davies O'Leary

Okay, I know I'm about the 31,487th person to pick up on this, but there's one factoid in the 2009 Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll of Americans' attitudes toward public schools that is driving me especially nutty.

Report
8.24.2009
Charter Schools

2008-09 Ohio Report Card Analysis

Emmy L. Partin, Terry Ryan

Each year the Thomas B. Fordham Institute conducts an analysis of urban school performance in Ohio. Read the findings for Ohio's Big 8 schools for the 2008-09 school year.

Commentary
8.21.2009
Charter Schools

Smart anti-choice strategies emerging

Emmy L. Partin

School-choice foes in the Buckeye State are getting smarter about the strategies they employ to undermine the choice movement.???? Since the birth of charters here in 1998 and vouchers in 2005, opponents--namely Democrats, teacher unions, and the education establishment--have fought a "districts = good, choice = bad" fight.????

Report
11.15.2008
Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools

2007-08 Ohio Report Card Analysis

Emmy L. Partin, Terry Ryan

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, in partnership with Public Impact, analyzed the 2007-08 academic performance data for charter and district schools in Ohio's eight largest urban cities.

Report
11.28.2007
Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools

Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Sponsorship Accountability Report 2007

Sheila Byrd Carmichael, Carol Jago, Lucien Ellington, Paul Gross, Sheldon Stern

For information on Fordham's unique role as a charter school sponsor in Ohio, there's no better source than The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation Sponsorship Accountability Report 2006-07. The report offers a comprehensive account of Fordham's sponsorship policies and practices-as well as individual profiles of all Fordham-sponsored schools. Included in the profiles are descriptions of each school's educational program, school philosophy, and overall academic performance.

Report
8.15.2007
Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools, Standards

2006-07 Ohio Report Cards

Emmy L. Partin, Terry Ryan

Despite a decade of significant school reform efforts in Ohio, students in the state's largest cities still struggle mightily to meet basic academic standards and are nowhere close to achieving the goals set by the federal No Child Left Behind law, according to an analysis of the latest Ohio school report-card data.

Report
5.24.2007
Charter Schools, Governance, Private School Choice, Standards

Ohioans' Views on Education 2007

Steve Farkas

This survey covers such topics as school quality and funding, academic standards, school reforms, proposals to improve how the public schools are run, teacher quality, charter schools and school vouchers. It follows up a survey conducted in 2005 and many of the questions are repeated, allowing us to gauge whether attitudes have shifted over time.

Report
10.11.2006
Accountability & Testing, School Finance, Charter Schools

Turning the Corner to Quality

Bryan C. Hassel, C. Peter Svahn, Louann Bierlein Palmer, Michelle Godard Terrell

At the request of Ohio's top government and education leaders, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, National Association of Charter School Authorizers, and National Alliance for Public Charter Schools have issued a report seeking to strengthen the state's charter school program. Among its 17 recommendations are calls for closing low-performing charter schools while also helping more high-performance schools to open and succeed in Ohio.

Report
10.13.2005
Accountability & Testing, Charter Schools

School Performance in Ohio's Inner Cities: Comparing Charter and District School Results in 2005

Terry Ryan, Allison Porch, Kristina Phillips-Schwartz

How are charter schools in Ohio truly performing when compared to their district counterparts? The latest Fordham Foundation report, School Performance in Ohio's Inner Cities: Comparing Charter and District School Results in 2005 provides a rare apples-to-apples comparison of charter school and district school achievement in four of Ohio's cities: Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Dayton. The results reveal that the performance of charter pupils isn't as dismal as Ohio's charter opponents want you to believe. However, the findings also illuminate the larger problem: ALL public schools in the Buckeye State still have a long way to go to reach academic success.

Report
4.21.2005
Charter Schools

Testimony Prepared for the Alternative Education Subcommittee

Chester E. Finn, Jr., Terry Ryan

On April 21, 2005, Fordham President Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Program Director Terry Ryan testified before the Alternative Education Subcommittee of the Ohio House of Representatives. They discussed Ohio's community schools (a.k.a. charter schools), which face a developing paradox: the more they expand and the more students they serve, the more threatened they become, by internal and external forces alike.

Report
9.1.2004
Charter Schools

A Wide-Angle Look at the Charter School Movement in Ohio/Dayton, circa September 2004

Terry Ryan

Charter school opponents have been taking shots nationally at charter schools in recent days, but these sorts of attacks have been a common occurrence in Dayton, Ohio since charter schools first opened there in 1998. Herewith is a report from the field on how charter schools are faring in the Buckeye State circa September 2004.

Report
3.26.2004
School Finance, Charter Schools

School Finance in Dayton: A Comparison of the Revenues of the School District and Community Schools

Chester E. Finn, Jr., Bryan C. Hassel, Michelle Godard Terrell

This report, prepared for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute by Public Impact, compares charter school funding and district school funding. It finds that charter schools are under-funded compared to their district counterparts, even after accounting for differences in students and grade levels. These findings should be taken seriously by those who argue that charter schools drain funds from district schools.

Commentary
12.31.1969
Charter Schools

High-quality customizable learning options should be the rule, not the exception

Terry Ryan

One could argue that 2011 was the year of “digital learning” in Ohio and across the nation. In September, the White House announced its “Digital Promise” campaign, while a number of states have been embracing initiatives and campaigns in this realm, aided and encouraged by national groups like the Digital Learning Council and the Foundation for Excellence in Education. Ohio’s biennial budget launched the Ohio Digital Learning Task Force and charged it with ensuring that the state’s “legislative environment is conducive to and supportive of the educators and digital innovators at the heart of this transformation.”

Commentary
12.31.1969
Charter Schools

Ohio is falling behind in the Competition for Education Talent

Terry Ryan

Cities and states across the country are in direct competition for education talent (teachers, school leaders, and key administrators) and great charter school models and operators. This struggle for talent and expertise is especially acute in the country’s mid-section.