Gadfly Bites 9/17/21—No more dessert desert
One unforeseen consequence of broadening free lunch for schools is, apparently, that there is not enough of certain foods to go around.
One unforeseen consequence of broadening free lunch for schools is, apparently, that there is not enough of certain foods to go around.
Every student ought to have safe, reliable transportation to a school that meets their needs. Recognizing this, Ohio law has long required districts to offer transportation to all resident students in grades K–8 who live more than two miles from their school—whether that’s a district, charter, private, or STEM school.
The recent report by Ohio State University Professors Kogan and Lavertu—putting some very sobering numbers on pandemic-influenced learning loss in the Buckeye State—received national coverage from AEI’s blo
Here is a decade-long program in central Ohio whereby a third-party nonprof
A recent research paper review—on the topic of pandemic-era academic impacts on students—written by Fordham’s Jessica Poiner became the law of the land in Ohio when it was linked and quoted in Gongwer the oth
Gadfly Bites is back back back! Sorry about that, y’all.
At the end of June, Ohio lawmakers passed House Bill 110, the biennial operating budget for FYs 2022–23. It included a new school funding framework that received bipartisan support and was backed by school district officials and teachers unions.
Gadfly Bites will be on vacation for a bit, you lucky readers; but your luck runs out on 9/8/21 when it all starts again.
For nearly twenty years, EdChoice has provided tens of thousands of students with the opportunity to attend private schools via state-funded scholarships, also known as vouchers.
Schools across the Miami Valley areas, including charter and private schools, are finding it even more challenging than usual, they say, in filling
Here’s the final look at Columbus City Schools’ summer program this year, including the news that 112 of the 412 seniors in the class of 2021 w
We will top and tail today’s edition of the Bites with two “say what?” clips.
Earlier this summer, Ohio’s state superintendent Paolo DeMaria announced his retirement, effective in September.
The Dispatch is celebrating the first day of school today—for a year that they characteri
An interesting, if tangential topic to start our Friday: The latest annual report on poverty trends from the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies notes an ongoing lack of broadband access in some parts of the s
Opponents of school choice in Ohio continue to threaten a lawsuit seeking to eradicate the state’s largest private-school scholarship program, known as
I have to admit I didn’t realize just how venerable (for lack of a better word) those schools-specific public transit routes for Cincinnati City Schools students were—in use for more than 40 years—which explains to my satisfaction why district officials were so incensed when they learned that those r
The new school year is starting up in an increasing number of schools and districts around Ohio.
RedefinED’s Matthew Ladner posits that a number of factors—including an ongoing baby bust, that crazy little thing called ‘rona, and the recent removal of restrictions on where charter schools can locate—will c
I know we’re not supposed to talk about “Covid slide” among kids because there is no such thing.
As we noted on Friday, Woodcrest Elementary in Columbus City Schools started the new school year last week.
In case you missed it, the Ohio Department of Health this week released its Covid guidance for K-12 schools for the new school year
We’re back after a week’s vacation. Let’s get caught up!
Bites will be on vacation for the next week. Back on Wednesday, July 28, with what I hope will be a more scintillating edition than this one. To wit…
Only two clips for today, and both of them are military-focused. How nice!
Officials with Akron City Schools tell the ABJ that they “learned a lot about online learning since March 2020”.
With the state budget bill on the books, most loyal Gadfly readers have more time to kick back and read something other than legislation. Here’s a synopsis of a few recent reports that caught my eye. Ohio has one of the nation’s largest AP opportunity gaps
As we have noted in these Bites since the passage of the state budget bill, the cold light of day is a strong antidote to formerly red hot rhetoric. It also seems to induce some caveat emptor vibes as well.
The powers that be in Youngstown City Schools—all of them—seem to be looking forward to the day that local control will be fully re-established in the distri
Fordham’s data guru Aaron Churchill was quoted in this piece looking at the changes ahead for school and district report cards