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Gadfly Bites 10/30/20 – Ersatz
Our own Aaron Churchill was large and in charge on the commentary page of Cleveland.com today, talking about the Cleveland-specific fi
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Gadfly Bites 10/28/20 – Minus
The headline of this story asks “How is back-to-school going?” in the Cincinnati region. Folks quoted here largely say it’s going pretty well.
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Gadfly Bites 10/26/20 – “Let's not panic seeing this data”
Fordham (probably our Ohio by the Numbers data although who can really tell?) is namechecked in this piece looking at the thorny subject of school funding.
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Gadfly Bites 10/23/20 – Going traditional
We heard on Wednesday that the boost in rona cases across the state were a threat to in-person education.
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Gadfly Bites 10/21/20 – Did somebody say “whipsaw”?
I have, I will admit, not been paying much attention to Tales from the Homestead (sequel to Ohio’s previous favorite soap opera Stories from the Crypt). I mean, I was holed up in the garage on vacation for a while. But really it’s just because the thing is such a freakin’ downer.
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End the confusion about per-pupil spending on Ohio report cards
A recent article from the Tribune Chronicle in Northeast Ohio covered a school funding analysis published by the personal finance website WalletHub.
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Gadfly Bites 10/9/20 – A blaze of glory
COMPILER’S NOTE: Gadfly Bites will be on vacation next week. (“Thank goodness!” I hear you cry. “You need a break. Hopefully you will return refreshed, renewed, and ready to boost up what has been—let’s face it, man—your recent mediocre work.
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Gadfly Bites 10/7/20 – The whipsaw whips again
Cincinnati City Schools is going to a hybrid in-person/remote model after all, starting next week.
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Gadfly Bites 10/5/20 – Luckily…
In Cincinnati, some of the district’s whipsawed parents speak. (Spectrum News 1, 10/5/20)
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Gadfly Bites 10/2/20 – The whipsaw chronicles
Another day, another raft of evidence that parents looking for certainty are well and truly hosed.
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Gadfly Bites 9/30/20 – Going forward
For some reason meeting on a Saturday, the elected board of Dayton City Schools unanimously approved a phased-in plan to bring students back for a
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Gadfly Bites 9/28/20 – General misunderstanding
Here’s an in-depth look at the first month of the school year at Xenia’s St. Brigid School.
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Gadfly Bites 9/25/20 – Wicked Googly
Aren’t search engines great? With them, one can search for an important name (say, Aaron Churchill) and sometimes find references to that name in new places.
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Gadfly Bites 9/23/20 – Protection for whom?
It’s Wednesday, and that means the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee will be hearing testimony today. One of the bills up for debate: SB 358. That’s the one that would, among other things, extend a moratorium on state testing from last school year to this one.
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Gadfly Bites 9/21/20 – Maybe there are fewer enemies than we think there are
Be cool, man! The boss is in town.
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Gadfly Bites 9/18/20 – Putting the “test” in testimony
In case you missed it earlier this week, Fordham’s Chad Aldis testified before th
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Gadfly Bites 9/16/20 – “A bad time to be measuring districts.”
“I just think it’s not a terribly appropriate time to be [measuring districts].
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Gadfly Bites 9/14/20 – A curmudgeon gets his scowl back
I’m not sure this piece reads as entirely objective journalism, but perhaps that’s because it is unusual to see
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Gadfly Bites 9/11/20 – Hello friend
The Dispatch editorial board giveth… (Columbus Dispatch, 9/10/20) …and
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Gadfly Bites 9/9/20 – Has your school ever been any good at that?
Here’s a look at how schools in Montgomery County say they will address “the Covid slide” among their students.
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Gadfly Bites 9/4/20 – “I feel like this is maybe just one step above the plan we had in March.”
We have heard a bit about school districts having trouble accessing enough laptops fo
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Gadfly Bites 9/2/20 – Are we even sure what a real “hazard” is anymore?
Pretty darn quiet around here these days. To wit: we have just one clip for today.
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Gadfly Bites 8/31/20 – Furlough
We’ll start this week with another one of those detailed looks at the school choices being made by parents to get the best education for their children in light of
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Gadfly Bites 8/28/20 – Pandemic pivots
From an unlikely source comes this fantastic and very thorough look at families exercising school choice in response to the realities of a pandemic-influenced 2020-2021 s
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Gadfly Bites 8/26/20 – “We know our math proficiency is going to suffer.”
We’re back on the clips beat from our Monday break. Lots to catch up on, so let’s go.
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Gadfly Bites 8/21/20 – Aim high
We’ll start today with one of the more bizarre stories to come down the pike in a while.
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Gadfly Bites 8/19/20 – Shifting
Back at the end of July, we talked about a Cincinnati area doctor who said that face shields were the best for ensuring safe in-person teaching. Especially these ones he designed back in the SARS era.
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Gadfly Bites 8/17/20 – Like everyone always asks: But what about Grandview?
We start this week with a follow up from Friday’s Bites.
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Gadfly Bites 8/14/20 – Score one for zealous local journalism
I could be the teensiest bit biased here, but this is my favorite of the school reopening plans I have read about so far.
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Gadfly Bites 8/12/20 – No time like the present
Fordham’s Chad Aldis is quoted in this coverage of a new report aimed at providing a roadmap for Ohio to increase the percentage of adults who have completed a postsecondary ce
