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Private School Choice
Shame on Upper Arlington schools
With a 3-2 vote last week, the Upper Arlington school board signed onto a lawsuit that aims t
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 6.14.24
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Private School Choice
Public-school groups’ latest stratagem: Tie Ohio’s voucher program in red tape
It’s no secret that the public-school establishment pulls out all the stops to prevent families from exercising educational choice, including private school options.
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Charter Schools
Ohio charter schools after the pandemic: Are their students still learning more than they would in district schools?
One of the most routinely debated questions is whether charters provide a superior education when compared to the district alternative. Just prior to the pandemic, Fordham research showed that students attending brick-and-mortar charters in Ohio made significantly greater academic progress than their peers attending nearby district schools. Our latest research brief provides an updated analysis of brick-and-mortar charter school performance in the years after the pandemic (2021–22 and 2022–23).
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 6.7.24
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Charter Schools
Digging in to the 2024 Charter School Ecosystem Rankings
The Education Freedom Institute (EFI) recently released the newest iteration of its charter ecosystem rankings, its third such effort to gauge the health of states’ charter-school sectors.
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Private School Choice
Gadfly Bites 6/3/24—Blurred line vibes
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 5.31.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 5.24.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 5.10.24
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Charter Schools
Information sources, data quality, and parental school choice
Los Angeles Unified School District’s Zones of Choice (ZOC) program began in 2010 as an effort to provide more high school options for a large swath of district eighth graders, combining historical catchment areas in lower-income and lower-performing neighborhoods into larger choice zones and eliminating the default feeder system from middle to high school.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 5.3.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 4.26.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 4.19.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 4.12.24
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Charter Schools
Columbus City Schools should offer its underenrolled facilities to charter schools
A recent Columbus Dispatch article revealed stunningly low enrollment rates in several Columbus City Schools’ buildings.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 4.5.24
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Charter Schools
It’s time for Ohio to create a credit enhancement program for charter schools
Rarely do you see media coverage in Ohio about a public charter school embarking on an ambitious expansion. It’s not that the press is hostile to charters; it’s that such expansions don’t often occur in Ohio.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.29.24
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Charter Schools
Did the emergence of Ohio charter schools help or harm students who remained in district schools?
For more than twenty-five years, public charter schools have served Ohio families and communities by providing quality educational options beyond the local school district. But it’s no secret that we’ve also had a long-standing debate over whether increasing school choice impacts students who remain in traditional districts. In important—and sometimes impassioned—discussions such as these, rigorous research is critical to ground conversations in facts and evidence.
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Private School Choice
Gadfly Bites 3/25/24—This is your celebration?
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.22.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.15.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio has made progress on charter school facilities; significant work remains
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.
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Charter Schools
Fordham Institute media statement: New study finds continuing shortfall in meeting Ohio charter schools’ facility needs
Today, ExcelinEd, a leading national education organization, released an analysis that finds continuing shortfalls in meeting the facility needs of Ohio
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.8.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.1.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 2.23.24
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Charter Schools
Ohio lawmakers should give charter schools easier access to unused district facilities
When it comes to facilities, Ohio’s public charter schools have long gotten the short end of
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Private School Choice
Gadfly Bites 2/19/24—Who’s sitting at the table matters
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