Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.10.21
Ohio Charter News Weekly is back from a brief hiatus and we’re catching up on all the news you can use from 8/27 to today! While we were out
Ohio Charter News Weekly is back from a brief hiatus and we’re catching up on all the news you can use from 8/27 to today! While we were out
Ohio Charter News Weekly will be on hiatus next week; returning on 9/10/21. Kudos
Forward motion in West Virginia
The end of suburban “opportunity hoarding”?
Ohio’s Covid guidance for fall
Federal education funding
After months of debate, the state budget was signed into law by Governor DeWine
More on the state budget
Our own Chad Aldis is quoted in this piece from public radio here in Columbus, saying that the new state budget “completely divorced” school report cards from vouche
Ohio’s new biennial budget
As we await final decisions from the General Assembly on important matters of school funding, report cards, vouchers, and more here in Ohio, we have a bumper crop of charter news from around the country that’s holding our attention.<
More details on the Senate’s budget bill
School choice provisions in the Senate budget bill
As post-pandemic life cautiously starts to take shape here in America, uncertainty abounds. Will our systems and processes and activities eagerly snap back to their 2019 forms? Or will our lives in 2021 and beyond take on new contours influenced by what we have learned, for good and ill, during the challenges forced upon us by 2020?
Back in 2014, Ohio lawmakers overhauled the state’s dual-enrollment program that gives students opportunities to take advanced courses through two- or four-year colleges.
The past, present, and future of charter schools
In praise of the federal Charter School Program
It’s rare for policies that are proposed in the state budget to sail untouched from the governor’s office through the House and to the Senate—especially if they’ll have a significant impact on the status quo.
Best high schools in America
ExcelinEd, a national education group, recently released a paper revealing large shortfalls in facility funding for Ohio’s public charter schools.
In February, Governor DeWine asked all public schools to create plans designed to address the learning loss caused by pandemic-related school closures.
Charter facilities in Ohio
Historically, children have been assigned to public schools based on their home address. For some students, this works out fine. But for many others, geographic assignment locks them into schools that don’t meet their needs. What can be done to break the link between students’ zip codes and their school?
A new report from the Journal of Chemical Education takes a look—pre-pandemic—at the ways in which college students benefited from a new opportunity to participate remotely in their education.
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