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School Finance
How can Ohio improve funding for low-income students?
Note: This is the seventh in a series of blog posts on school funding in Ohio; for the previous
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School Finance
Fair funding plans don’t stop at the school district level
Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts on school funding in Ohio.
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School Finance
School funding in Ohio: Are poor districts getting a fair share?
The first two blog posts in my series about school funding lo
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School Finance
School funding in Ohio: Do demographic trends justify higher spending?
In late June, Representatives Robert Cupp and John Patterson introduced legislation that would overhaul the state’s school funding system.
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School Finance
School funding in Ohio: How much is being spent and should we spend more?
In the coming weeks, I’ll be working on a blog series that digs into Ohio’s school funding system.
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School Finance
The rich get richer under a Senate school funding provision
Covering a gamut of issues and spanning thousands of pages, the state budget legislation is apt to contain at least a few harebrained policy ideas.
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School Finance
Reliably identifying low-income students should be a priority
This spring’s school funding debates have revolved around the needs of poor students. Governor Mike DeWine has proposed a significant bump in state spending targeted at low-income students.
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Tackling Ohio's toughest education challenges: Merge state funding components into the core Opportunity Grant
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we believe can lead to increased achievement and greater opportunities for Ohio students. This is one of those policy proposals.
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School Finance
Governor DeWine’s budget shows his commitment to meeting Ohio’s attainment goal
For the past few years, Ohio policymakers, educators, and advocates have been paying close attention to a “looming crisis” in educational attainment.
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School Finance
The Cupp-Patterson school funding plan: Questions still loom large
Much of the Capitol Square chatter revolves around the school funding plan put forward last month by Representatives Robert Cupp and John Patterson.
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School Finance
Testimony given before the House Finance Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education on HB 166 – 4/8/19
NOTE: The Finance Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education of the Ohio House of Representatives today heard testimony on HB 166, the state’s biennial budget bill.
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School Finance
The strengths and weaknesses of the Cupp-Patterson school funding plan
Last week, Ohio Representatives Robert Cupp and John Patterson unveiled their much-anticipated school funding plan.
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Standards
Student completion data for Ohio colleges
In late 2018, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center published its annual data on national college completion rates.
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School Finance
Tackling Ohio's toughest education challenges: Phase out the use of caps and guarantees
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we belie
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Accountability & Testing, Standards, Teachers & School Leaders
Fulfilling the Readiness Promise: Twenty-Five Education policy ideas for Ohio
Creating smart, coherent education policy is painstaking work; there are technical, budgetary, and political challenges at almost every turn. But it is some of the most important work that state leaders can undertake.
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Accountability & Testing, School Finance, Teachers & School Leaders
Ohio Education By the Numbers—2019 Edition
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." -- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. That sentiment has never been more profound and applicable than it is today.
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School Finance
A cautionary tale: Universal childcare in Quebec
In Ohio and across the nation, policymakers are contemplating sizeable increases to public outlays for early childhood programs, including ex
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Ohio’s average ACT score dropped, but that’s not a bad thing
A few weeks ago, officials at ACT released a report that breaks down the ACT test results of the 2018 graduating class.
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Accountability & Testing, School Finance
Ohio Education By the Numbers--2018 Edition
Education will always be one of Ohio’s highest priorities. It bonds communities together, provides the foundation for the state’s long-term economic success, and—most importantly—helps students across the state to realize their potential and pursue their dreams.
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Accountability & Testing, Governance, Standards
Back to the Basics: A plan to simplify and balance Ohio’s school report cards
For more than a decade, Ohio’s annual school report cards have offered the public information on school quality. The current iteration of report cards has notable strengths: School ratings are grounded in hard data, they use an intuitive A-F rating system, and several of the metrics encourage schools to pay attention to the achievement of all students.
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Standards
Evaluation of Grades 2 and 3 Reading Tutoring Intervention in Youngstown
Research on individualized, in-school tutoring such as Match Corps has demonstrated impressive results.
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School Finance
A Formula That Works: Five ways to strengthen school funding in Ohio
By Jennifer O’Neal Schiess, Max Marchitello, and Juliet Squire
Policy Brief
School Finance, Charter Schools, Private School Choice
Policy Brief: Ohio's Voucher Programs
The genesis of vouchers in Ohio stretches back to 1995 and the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring program. In 2006, vouchers expanded statewide via the Educational Choice Scholarship (or EdChoice), which aims to assist students assigned to a low-rated public school.
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Accountability & Testing, School Finance
Ohio Education By the Numbers--2017 Edition
This guidebook offers simple and easy-to-use vital statistics about Ohio’s schools and the students they serve. The facts and figures contained within this report offer an overview of who Ohio’s students are; where they go to school; how they perform on national and state exams; and how many pursue post-secondary education.
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Accountability & Testing, Standards
Setting Sights on Excellence: Ohio’s School Report Cards, 2015-16
On September 15, Ohio released report cards for approximately 600 school districts and 3,500 public schools (district and charter). These report cards are based on state exam results from the 2015-16 school year, along with several other gauges of student success.
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School Finance, Private School Choice
Evaluation of Ohio’s EdChoice Scholarship Program: Selection, Competition, and Performance Effects
Shortly after Ohio lawmakers enacted a new voucher program in 2005, the state budget office wrote in its fiscal analysis, “The Educational Choice Scholarships are not only intended to offer another route for student success, but also to impel the administration and teaching staff of a failing school building to improve upon their students’ academic performance.” Today, the
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Accountability & Testing, Governance, Standards
Facing facts: Ohio's school report cards in a time of rising expectations
A deep dive into the performance of Ohio’s public schools, statewide and in its eight largest urban areas
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Accountability & Testing, Governance, Standards
Establishing a baseline: Ohio’s education system as it enters a new era
Like other states, Ohio has over the past few years put into place a standards a
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Commentary
Standards, Accountability & Testing
Deconstructing Ohio’s testing report recommendations
"Test mania" debunked - now for the real work to improve testing in Ohio