Almost a decade ago, my former boss Terry Ryan wrote: “Education governance in Ohio is broken.... The governance structures for education in this state are multi-layered, fractured, and leaderless. No one is really in charge. The buck stops nowhere.”
Chad Aldis is among the analysts speaking on the topic of House Bill 11 in this piece
NOTE: Today, the Ohio House Primary and Secondary Education Committee heard testimony on HB 12 which would, among other things, make substantial changes to the state’s K-12
During his first term, Governor DeWine established a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at helping schools address the non-academic needs of students.
Only one clip today, but it’s another doozy.
A couple more items from around the Statehouse lead us off today.
Ensuring that all Ohio students receive an excellent education remains an important priority for state and community leaders. As Governor DeWine himself recently noted, a quality education for all is a “moral imperative” for Ohio. Making good on this obligation starts with a solid understanding of the state of K-12 education in Ohio.
We start our state government tour with the Controlling Board, the members of w
This national story is about how ability grouping in classrooms works, including findings from a number of studies into its effectiveness.
Nice coverage of Governor DeWine’s all-in push to make the science of reading the law of the land he
This being a budget year, state lawmakers will soon be delving into the minutia of school funding. To help inform these discussions, we’ve begun a series looking at Ohio’s funding system, including a deep-dive into the new formula that lawmakers enacted in 2021 and which Governor DeWine has proposed to maintain.
This feels like good news to me: It was announced last week that Ohio will join the group o
Ohio’s state auditor and the president of the Ohio Association of Community Colleges published
The Senate Education Committee heard testimony on SB 1 yesterday.
NOTE: Today, the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee heard testimony on SB 1
As I was reading this piece about
There’s not much substantive detail in this coverage, but the Ohio Department o
While Governor DeWine’s budget priorities included billions (billions I say!) to support a huge range of K-12 education priorities, lotsa folks out here in punditland only want to talk about proposed EdChoice Scholarship
In anticipation of debates about school funding in the coming months, I recently began a series on Ohio’s new school funding formula.
Today, Governor Mike DeWine announced his state budget priorities for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 in his state of the state address. Among his K–12 education proposals include bold steps that would greatly strengthen Ohio’s school choice programs.
Many states fund students who utilize school choice—public charter schools, private school voucher programs, interdistrict open enrollment, and the like—via “passthrough” mechanisms whereby per-pupil funding goes into a student’s home district coffers first before being transferred to the schools that stud
The superintendent of LaBrae Local Schools (nope, me neither) has a list of interesting questions that
There are, in my estimation, only two people in Ohio (outside of state government, that is) who truly understand our school funding system. Neither of them is me.
In summer 2021, Ohio lawmakers passed a brand-new school funding formula for Ohio’s 600-plus school districts and 300-plus public charter schools.
In December, state lawmakers rocked the boat during an otherwise sleepy lame duck session by moving forward with a proposal to significantly overhaul Ohio’s education governance structure.
