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Gadfly Bites 1/8/21 – Extra
No students in Columbus City Schools have attended in-person learning since March of 2020. Sports have been on hold since mid-November.
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Gadfly Bites 1/6/21 –One of these things is not like the others
NOTE: This is our first regular Gadfly Bites edition for 2021, covering clips from 1/1 through 1/6/21. Huge thanks for reading and subscribing!
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Gadfly Bites 1/4/21 – (Left) Hanging with 2020
NOTE: We’re back with a catch up edition covering clips from 12/23 – 12/31/20. Hope you missed me! Wednesday’s edition will catch us up with clips from 2021 so far. Fingers crossed for sanity!
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Predicting the top Ohio education issues for 2021
At this point, we’re all tired of hearing the word “unprecedented.” But clichés are clichés for a reason, and 2020 has certainly been an unprecedented year. Many of us would like nothing more than to leave this difficult year in the rearview mirror. Unfortunately, the events of 2020 seem likely to stretch into the new year.
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Five uplifting stories from Ohio education in 2020
Only a glutton for punishment would want a rehash of the biggest K–12 education stories of 2020. They are no secret—and frankly depressing: widespread school closures, predictions about massive learning losses, and students going M.I.A. from remote learning.
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Counting down the top five most-read blogs of 2020
It’s that time of year again when we at Fordham are forced to ask ourselves, “What were they thinking?” The “they” in question is you, our readers and subscribers.
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Rounding up Fordham-Ohio’s 2020 research
The Fordham Institute has built its reputation over the years on the strength of its commentary and research. We’ll leave the former for another blog, but given all of the newsworthy events, you may have missed one of our research studies released in 2020.
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Gadfly Bites 12/23/20 – Appeasement, accessibility, and additional information required.
NOTE: This is the last edition of Gadfly Bites to be published in 2020. We’re back on January 4, 2021 with a wrap up of 2020 stories. Regular service for 2021 will resume on January 6. Thank you so much for reading and subscribing!
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Gadfly Bites 12/21/20 – Getting a clearer picture
While there isn’t anything good—if you ask me (which, thankfully, no one ever does)—about the plan to induce school districts across the state to pay a bunch of lawyers to execute what will likely be a years-long court battle against school choice, the launch of the public induction effort to that en
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Gadfly Bites 12/18/20 – Kills bugs dead
We’ll start today with my favorite riddle (heard here many times before). When is a charter school not a charter school? When an Ohio newspaper wants to say something nice about them!
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Gadfly Bites 12/16/20 – Always read to the end
Peter Greene gets a twofer in swiping at standardized testing and Ohio’s
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Gadfly Bites 12/14/20 – Fill! That! Room!!
Remember back before the pandemic when school districts were being overly cautious about the student wellness funding approved in the last biennial budget?
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Gadfly Bites 12/11/20 – You don’t say…
Fordham’s Chad Aldis was quoted on the importance of conducting state tests this school year.
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Gadfly Bites 12/9/20 – The “pinch”
Preble Shawnee Local Schools failed to pass a levy in November, the latest in a long line of renewal failures over the last five years.
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Gadfly Bites 12/7/20 – “This invisible thing”
It was widely noted on Friday that the new school funding plan that passed the House faced less-affirmative prospects in the Ohio Senate (see what I did there?) due to the complexity of the issue and the time remaining in the lame duck legislative session.
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Gadfly Bites 12/2/20 – (sic)
In case you missed it, Chad testified before the House Finance Committee yesterday as an interested party on the Cupp-Patterson school funding overhaul bill.
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Gadfly Bites 11/30/20 – “I had to wake up. I had to realize this is my future I’m talking about.”
NOTE: Gadfly Bites is back after a Thanksgiving break. Clips cover November 25 – 30.
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Gadfly Bites 11/25/20 – The tater trove
NOTE: Gadfly Bites will be off on Friday for Thanksgiving break. Back on Monday, November 30.
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Gadfly Bites 11/23/20 – Downshifting
NOTE: Bites is back from a short vacation. Today’s clips cover 11/19 – 11/23/20.
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2020 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report
The 2019–20 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report provides insight into our sponsorship work during the year and the performance of our sponsored schools.
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Gadfly Bites 11/18/20 – “Not exactly the classroom”
NOTE: Gadfly Bites will be on vacation this Friday, November 20, and will return with a full catch up on Monday, November 23.
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Gadfly Bites 11/16/20 – Faraway lands—far away from reality, that is.
This is another one of those stories where kids and families are the focus of the discussion, but no one bothered to ask any kids or parents their thoughts.
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Gadfly Bites 11/13/20 – Define “better”
While students in grades 6-12 in Troy City Schools have indeed moved to fully-remote learning for a couple of weeks—as we talked about on Wednesday—
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Gadfly Bites 11/11/20 – Largesse
The Cleveland Public Library is partnering with nonprofit PCs for People to help distribute computers and WiFi hotspots for
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Gadfly Bites 11/9/20 – “Everyone became more comfortable and tech savvy.”
A Catholic school in North Canton whipped from fully in-person learning to a fully-remote model last week (cancelling a day of school and weeks’ worth of planned sports a
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Gadfly Bites 11/6/20 – Yeah, there’s an app for that. But you don’t have to use it.
Just your regular reminder, in case you are not a parent in K–12 education in Ohio—that there’s still a whipsaw pandemic going on out there.
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Gadfly Bites 11/4/20 – Election stuff…ew
Did you know that in Ohio you can place a levy reduction issue on the ballot? I didn’t either until I read this story.
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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.
