Fordham contributes to news articles related to charter school accountability and retaining Ohio's graduates
Ohio has put the welcome mat out for charter schools that provide career technical education. Building on criteria from the federal Carl D. Perkins Act Ohio’s biennial budget (HB59) provides a significant increase in funding for charter schools that provide career technical courses.
Of seven badly performing charter schools cut off by their authorizer, four have been reprieved
When it comes to charter sponsoring, Maryland is in the Hall of Shame
After a judge ruled last year that Los Angeles was in violation of the Stull Act—a forty-year-old state law signed by Governor Ronald Reagan requiring that
The intersection of school and community
A long way to go for charter high schools in graduating college-bound students
Illinois's new moratorium on virtual charter schools could have been worse
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation last week that places a one-year moratorium on new virtual charter schools outside Chicago and directs a state commission to study the effects and costs of virtual charters.
A feature article about Menlo Park Academy, Ohio’s sole charter school whose emphasis lies in educating gifted students.
Charters will soon be able to lease as many as sixteen former or soon-to-be-closed public school buildings
The top five takeaways from his interviews with USED, PARCC, and Smarter Balanced
Charter schools: Underfunded after all these years
Jeff Murray vividly reminds us what it's like to lose the school-choice lottery
Wayward Sons, a recent report published by the policy think tank the Third Way, finds that the average girl’s educational and career outcomes have improved over time, while boys tend to be faring worse.
Yesterday, I spent all day hitting the Refresh button on my email account. Probably 653 times. Why? Because the one school that we wanted for our children for next year was to announce its lottery results to those lucky few who would be chosen. 12 or 13 slots for sixth grade, out of an application pool of several hundred (wish I knew exactly how many).
Did you miss Ohio's recent event? A video is now available!
The Justice Department has taken school-voucher policy to unstable ground
This report is based on the responses to an online survey conducted in Spring 2013 with 344 school district superintendents in Ohio. The survey covered seven education policies, specifically: Common Core State Standards, teacher evaluations, the Third Grade Reading Guarantee, open enrollment, A-to-F ratings for schools and districts, individualized learning (blended learning and credit flexibility), and school choice (charter schools and vouchers). It also included several questions on general attitudes towards school reform in Ohio and two trend items. Download today to discover the key findings!
When a Michigan House committee approved a measure that would allow students to skip Algebra 2 if they instead take a tec
This interview with the United States Department of Education is the third and final installment in our Common Core testing consortia series
The Dayton Early College Academy (DECA) is Dayton’s highest performing high school (district or charter), but is being trashed by a Columbus organization.
With potential tactics still in play to sustain the voucher expansion, it is likely that this ruling will simply be a pothole on the road to voucher expansion in Louisiana
A tricky line of research gets worthy treatment
Our Gadfly readers won’t
About 8,000 children had already been promised vouchers for next year when the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled its method of funding unconstitutional
Few school systems have embraced a crisis of opportunity quite like the school system in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
