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Gadfly Bites 8/16/21—BTS
The Dispatch is celebrating the first day of school today—for a year that they characteri
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Gadfly Bites 8/13/21—You say school choice is the problem, do you?
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
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Gadfly Bites 8/11/21—Gone the way of the “venerable” magnet school campouts
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
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Gadfly Bites 8/9/21—Planning hopefully
The new school year is starting up in an increasing number of schools and districts around Ohio.
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Gadfly Bites 8/6/21—Sorta weird
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
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Gadfly Bites 8/4/21—Finding your “E”
I know we’re not supposed to talk about “Covid slide” among kids because there is no such thing.
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Gadfly Bites 8/2/21—“If we come out of this and everything looks the same, then shame on us.”
As we noted on Friday, Woodcrest Elementary in Columbus City Schools started the new school year last week.
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Gadfly Bites 7/30/21—The new school year is upon some of us already
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
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Gadfly Bites 7/28/21—August might be an illusion
We’re back after a week’s vacation. Let’s get caught up!
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Gadfly Bites 7/21/21—Just a skosh
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…
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Gadfly Bites 7/19/21—Kids in uniform
Only two clips for today, and both of them are military-focused. How nice!
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Gadfly Bites 7/16/21—It will be different
Officials with Akron City Schools tell the ABJ that they “learned a lot about online learning since March 2020”.
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Poolside potpourri: Ohio’s AP opportunity gaps, a new charter ranking, and fresh national data
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
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Gadfly Bites 7/14/21—Fair(ly confusing) School Funding Plan
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.
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Gadfly Bites 7/12/21—Easy peasy
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
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Gadfly Bites 7/7/21—False choices
Fordham’s data guru Aaron Churchill was quoted in this piece looking at the changes ahead for school and district report cards
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Ohio’s budget bill makes major changes to K–12 education policy
On July 1, Governor DeWine signed House Bill 110, the state’s operating budget for fiscal years 2022–23.
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Gadfly Bites 7/2/21—Jumping
Following on from our theme on Wednesday, perhaps it’s not just the amount of time one takes to absorb new information that matters in terms of response. Perhaps it is natural inclination as well.
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Gadfly Bites 6/30/21—“We should have known…”
In case you missed it, the state budget bill passed out of the legislature very late in the day on Monday.
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Fordham Institute statement on passage of biennium budget (House Bill 110)
Today, the Ohio Senate and House, each with broad bipartisan support, approved the report of the budget conference committee and sent HB 110 (the biennium state budget) to Governor DeWine for his approval.
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Gadfly Bites 6/28/21—When the stars collide
In case you missed it late in the day on Friday, House Bill 82 passed out of the General Assembly. Among other things, the bill contains a serious revamp of school and district report cards.
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Gadfly Bites 6/25/21—A bumper crop of irony six years in the making
Fordham-provided stats are referenced in the piece on the status of a school funding revamp currently included in the state budget bill.
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Gadfly Bites 6/23/21—Bristles
It is truly an unusual situation when the good folks at Gongwer use an evocative, emotional word like “bristle” in a headline. Must mean it’s budget season and some folks don’t like what they’re seeing in the tea leaves.
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Six ideas that conferees should include in the final budget bill
It’s been a busy budget season filled with heated debates over how to revise Ohio’s school-funding formula, testing and
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Gadfly Bites 6/21/21—The good old summer time
Lots of folks worried about a decline in student enrollment last year and what it might mean for the future. Oh. Sorry.
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Gadfly Bites 6/18/21—“They’re back on their own…”
On Wednesday, we covered some sobering data about economic segregation in Ohio’s education system, including interdistrict open enrollment.
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A primer on the Ohio Senate’s school funding plan
Over the past few years, school-funding policy has been at the forefront of Ohio’s education debates.
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Gadfly Bites 6/16/21—“It’s a tuba thang, shorty.”
Fordham’s Aaron Churchill is one among several of the advocates quoted in this piece applauding the school choice-friendly aspects of the Senate’s budget bill. Naturally.
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The Senate’s enrichment ESA proposal could help Ohio eliminate opportunity gaps
Earlier this year, Governor DeWine requested that all public schools create and publish plans to address student learning loss caused by the pandemic.
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Gadfly Bites 6/14/21—The future might be now
A blog by Fordham’s Jessica Poiner is quoted in this piece, looking at the state budget bill’s provisions to expand computer science education.
