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Gadfly Bites 11/13/19 – I promise this edition is worth your time
Only two clips today—both on the same subject. Both are fantastic. Both of them beg a question.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/11/19 – Confirmation
Confirmed at last: College Credit Plus does save some kids money on college!
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Gadfly Bites 11/8/19 – The Youngstown Accords
In Youngstown, the elected school board and the mayor agreed that the process to replace the elected board, as called for in Ohio’s still-on-the-books-last-time-I-checked academic distress commission paradigm, would be o
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Gadfly Bites 11/6/19 – Just in case
State Senator Matt Huffman wants Ohio to be “first in line” for a federal private education choice matching program…if it ever actually happens. And last week he introduced legislation to get the ball rolling.
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Governance
The Cupp-Patterson plan: Lots more resources, no reform
Earlier this month, the Ohio House Finance Committee began hearings on a school funding plan crafted by Representatives Robert Cupp and John Patterson, along with a group
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/4/19 – It’s your choice, apparently
Thank heavens election day is tomorrow. I am heartily sick of all this campaign junk taking up space in Ohio’s news outlets.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/1/19 – Hot in Cincinnati (and Cleveland too)
In case you had forgotten, there is a hotly contested race for school board in Cincinnati City Schools going on, and I mean “Cincinnati hot”. Thank heavens it will be over by this time next week.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/30/19 – “Where we were wasn’t working very well.”
Only two pieces of Bites-worthy news today. First up, from the Is Nothing Sacred?
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/28/19 – To function and thrive in the world
As we have discussed regularly in the Bites over the last five years, there is a fiscal analogue to the state’s efforts at academic oversight in school districts.
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Gadfly Bites 10/25/19 – More arguments
As noted on Wednesday, arguments were heard before the Ohio Supreme Court (sitting in remote Montpelier, Ohio) on the constitutionality of HB 70, the law which created Ohio’s current CEO-st
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Accountability & Testing, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders
So far, LeBron’s I Promise School is keeping its promise
Last year, NBA superstar LeBron James opened I Promise School (IPS), a school for at-risk kids in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. In its first year (2018–19), IPS served 240 students in grades three and four.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/23/19 – Systemically scandalous
Wow. It’s not often we get to welcome brand new media outlets to the family. But the closure of the Youngstown Vindicator really did bring out the next tier of journalistic endeavors, didn’t it?
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/21/19 – Charge it, please, and thank you very much!
Call it the Ghost of Gatehouse Past.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/18/19 – Pay now or pay later, your choice
We start today with another heartwarming story of a suburban teen entrepreneur. Seventeen-year-old Will Feldman of Bexley runs a business called pausecircleplay.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/16/19 – The game is afoot! Isn’t it?
The line of demarcation between the board and the teachers of Columbus City Schools was sharply drawn at yesterday’s school board meeting.
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Gadfly Bites 10/14/19 – What to do?
So your district got a report card grade that reflects badly on you you didn’t like. What can you do? For Fairfield City Schools in Butler County, the answer is take a temperature check.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/11/19 – Poetry
I might be wrong, but I think there’s some big political event coming up here in central Ohio soon. How else to explain today’s dueling editorials in the Dispatch, both aimed squarely at addressing national political rhetoric.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/9/19 – Oversight
Here is a nice profile of Haugland Learning Center in Sandusky, Ohio, a school dedicated to teaching students on the autism spectrum and those with developmental disabilities.
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Gadfly Bites 10/7/19 – And some privilege and some insularity too
We start the week with a personal column in the Marion Times written by a dad who also happens to be a member of the paper
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/4/19 – “This sends a message we may not want to send”
Fordham’s Chad Aldis—my boss, a stand-up guy, my direct supervisor, super smart, and did I mention he’s in charge around here?—has been having a recent run of very bad luck when it comes to being quoted in Ohio newspapers. Not because he’s not on the ball or not saying really smart stuff.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/2/19 – Audacity
What is a curmudgeonly education news clips compiler to do when two of his most regular sources of questionable reasoning oppose one another on the pages of a major daily newspaper?
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Gadfly Bites 9/30/19 – “Ultimately, we can't let kids fail or be in failing schools.”
It would be very easy to characterize this item, an opinion piece attempting to villainize Ohio’s voucher program disguised as “news”, as nonsense.
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Gadfly Bites 9/25/19 – Once again
I’m not sure what about it resonates so well at the national level, but Fordham’s 2017 interdistrict open enrollment report was cited once again, in an opinion piece on district
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Gadfly Bites 9/23/19 – Rating the ratings
Kudos to the Springfield News-Sun for checking up on the report cards received by the two charter schools in Clar
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Gadfly Bites 9/18/19 – Correlating the causes of contradiction
Our own Aaron Churchill gives a nice analysis of where Ohio’s recent report card results fit into a national context.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/16/19 – Required nuance
Some surprisingly nuanced discussion of the online charter school environment in Ohio 18 months or so after the demise of ECOT
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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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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/13/19 – Report card drama!
Before we get to the big news of the week, let’s take a brief moment to talk about awesome young people.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/11/19 – “We have to own where we are.”
As promised, the Senate Education Committee yesterday took a look at a bill promising some big changes to the state’s academic distress paradigm.
