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Charter Schools
Choice always beats coercion
As “school choice” laws go, Missouri's is sloppy and coercive
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Charter Schools
Give Louisiana voters the chance to redefine public education funding
Louisiana voters are used to making the hard decisions about public education that divide their lawmakers
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Keeping our standards up
The Washington Post profiled Josh Powell, a homeschooled young man, who—having never written an essay or learned that South Africa was a country—had to take several years of rem
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Charter Schools
A decade of charter school growth, but where to now?
More than 100,000 students in Ohio attended a public charter school during the past school year
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Charter Schools
Good charter schools are good investments
Few reporters and analysts have documented the challenges charters face in entering the multi-trillion-dollar municipal bond market
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Charter Schools
Summer reading: On underemployment, social mobility, M-learning, and more
This summer in Ohio has been oppressively hot and (for some reason) rainy. So check out these short reviews and reading recommendations from the Columbus team!
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Charter Schools
Caps on choice are counterproductive
The perseverance of a Wisconsin mother brings the shortcomings of many school-choice programs into sharp focus
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Charter Schools
12 years; 12 lessons
After twelve years with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Terry Ryan will be leaving the organization and the Buckeye state.
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Charter Schools
A charter incubator goes to the capital
For a state in which charter school performance has outpaced student gains at traditional public schools, Tennessee should have a better charter law
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Charter Schools
Sunshine and school vouchers: How Louisiana gets it right
With the exception of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship, no other school-voucher program has endured so many growing pains as the Louisiana voucher program
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Charter Schools
Funding an expansion of pre-K in Columbus
The provision allocates 1 mil or approximately $42.5 million over 5 years to pre-K programs.
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Charter Schools
Common Ground: Chad Webb
The first entry of our Common Core series features a discussion with Chad Webb from Village Preparatory Academy::Woodland Hills Campus.
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Charter Schools
Governor Kasich signs Columbus education reform bill
A new era dawned today for Columbus’ public education system.
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Charter Schools
Be all you can be and become a board member
A strong business acumen is needed for charter school board members.
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Charter Schools
A study in bad charter school governance
It’s time to talk more about how multi-school networks are governed
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Charter Schools
Review – Remedial Education: Federal Education Policy
The global competitiveness of the U.S. education system continues to drive much of the school reform dialogue.
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Charter Schools
Cherishing choice in Ohio
Ohio governor John Kasich's guest post celebrates the state’s newest school-choice initiative, the Income-Based Scholarship Program
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Charter Schools
Mayoral sponsorship: How Columbus is dealing with a growing charter sector
A recent press release from the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools estimated that 920,007 students are currently on a waitlist to attend charter schools, a jump from the previous year’s 610,000.
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Charter Schools
Navigating around icebergs in the sea of charter school finance
Charter school authorizers in Ohio must review the school financials of all authorized schools monthly. But too often authorizers either don’t do this or they do not do it well.
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Charter Schools
The freedom to choose a quality education is a right worth celebrating
A guest column on school choice by Governor Kasich, which highlights some achievements in the recently signed state budget.
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Charter Schools
Ohio kindergarten students now eligible for income-based scholarship for private school
Ohio is the newest state with an income-based scholarship, joining Indiana, Washington DC, and Wisconsin.
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Charter Schools
There’s no disputing charter school demand
In the past year, charter school naysayers have successfully convinced some media outlets to question the actual demand for charters
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Charter Schools
Balancing acts and technology hacks
An Atlantic article by sociology professor Richard Greenwald examines Mayor Michael Blo
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Charter Schools
CREDO study shows quality counts
While the overall news is good for charters, it’s clear that some states are not moving fast enough to adopt quality control
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Charter Schools
Enter the mayor
Columbus' mayor, soon to enter the charter school authorization business, should check out this data viz
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Charter Schools
Dropout recovery charter schools: Dayton’s needles in a very messy haystack
For most of Ohio’s youngsters, school’s out for the summer. But for the girls and boys who have dropped out of school, school may be out for good, with devastating consequences.
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Charter Schools
Taking student mobility from data to action
A panel of project partners met June 20 to discuss the findings and implications of Fordham’s student mobility study, Student Nomads: Mobility in Ohio’s Schools.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
From local diplomas to zombie attacks
New York City’s graduation rate dipped very slightly in 2012—information that was
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Charter Schools
Dropout recovery charter schools: Dayton’s needles in a very messy haystack
For most of Ohio’s youngsters, school’s out for the summer. But for the girls and boys who have dropped out of school, school may be out for good, with devastating consequences.