Gadfly Bites 8/10/20 – Is there still time for a quick call to Health and Safety?
All y’all know that we love positive charter school stories here at the Bites.
All y’all know that we love positive charter school stories here at the Bites.
Following Wednesday’s voting/territory transfer story, we return you to
While this is a story about the fall reopening plans for Par Excellence Academy in Newark, that is not the point I wish to focus on for the purposes of these clips.
In case you were wondering, Big Walnut High School’s super spreader event in-person graduation happened as scheduled on July 25.
Weeks of questions, concerns, protests, and petitions over Dayton City Schools’ disastrous transportation scheme f
We start today with what could likely end up being News of the Moot.
In the discussion of whether and how to reopen schools in the fall, the spotlight falls (sort of) on private schools in central Ohio.
We’ll start today with some unequivocal good news.
We continue our theme of low-quality clips this week.
Not much in the way of clips today.
With Covid-19 cases on the rise and state budgets in crisis, federal lawmakers seem poised to pass another round of stimulus.
In case you missed it, there was a meeting of the state board of education earlier this week.
We start today with a Fordham cite—always fun.
It’s no secret that the national debate about reopening schools has been heating up.
Officials at Cleveland Metropolitan School District and the Say Yes to Education program in the city sound very
State Senator Peggy Lehner took a visit to the I Promise School in Akron (pre-pandemic, I’m guessing), and the experi
The Dispatch took a gander at which educational institutions—including K-12 schools—in central Ohio were ap
In case you missed it over the long holiday weekend, Governor DeWine issued some preliminary guidelines for schools to reopen in the fall.
We noted last week that Columbus City Schools hired its first ever chief equity officer.
With the announcement last week that Dayton City Schools would offer a fully online learning option
Veteran teacher and administrator Dave Taylor will take over as superintendent of Dayton Early College Academy s
Interdistrict open enrollment is the biggest school-choice program that practically nobody ever mentions, perhaps because it’s less conspicuous and more socially acceptable than its cousins, private school vouchers and public charter schools.
Quick: What was the subject of the universally-reviled HB 70 out of the 131st General Assembly? Buzzzzz. It was NOT Academic Distress Commissions, but thanks for playing! It was a bill allowing school districts to create community learning centers.
A group of Horizon Science Academy schools across Ohio are suing the state over what they reckon to
In case you missed it, Fordham released a new report last week that aimed to provide practical recommendations for restarting—and reshaping—educational accountability
The General Assembly passed a sweeping education bill this week aimed at supporting schools—and pr
The good news: a blog post by Fordham’s own Jessica Poiner is quoted in this piece.
After a one-year pause in Ohio's school accountability system, the road back to normalcy is uncertain. Fordham's new policy brief titled Resetting school accountability, from the bottom up offers a clear and concise plan to restart state assessments and school report cards.
An elected board member in Cambridge City Schools has a three-pronged message for parents looking toward next school year: Don’t do anything hast