Gadfly Bites 3/30/20 – “Everything feels off without school”

Here’s how Ohio’s three largest districts are dealing with coronavirus closures

On March 22, Governor DeWine issued a stay at home order for Ohioans.

Gadfly Bites 3/27/20 – Voucher Grouchers La Finale: God laughed, but not at my jokes

As all my dedicated, now-working-at-home subscribers will recall, the voucher grouchers saga began last fall with the release of the most recent list of EdChoice-eligible schools.

Gadfly Bites 3/25/20 – No playbook

While every public school and district in the state is required to have a school safety plan on file, these are not generally public knowledge, much to the chagrin of some reporters.

Gadfly Bites 3/23/20 – Seeking

We’ll start today with a bit of grim humor. (Seriously, what else did you expect from me?) How can we be sure that the current situation is an emergency?

Gadfly Bites 3/20/20 – Reigning chaos

Gadfly Bites 3/18/20 – Can-do

Gadfly Bites 3/16/20 – Cobbling together

In case you may have missed it somehow, Governor DeWine told the whole world over the weekend that Ohio’s school year may already be over.

Gadfly Bites 3/13/20 – Ish

School’s out. What? Y’all expected me to clip that for you? Not a chance. 

Gadfly Bites 3/11/20 – The true curmudgeon likes and dislikes in equal measure

Sorry to miss out on a Monday edition, but now we’re back with lots to catch up on.

Gadfly Bites 3/6/20 – Bits and Bobs

It’s one of those days where the clips don’t seem to want to cohere into a story of their own, so how about the story of same news, different day? With a side order of “perhaps Murray’s been doing this too long”. 

Gadfly Bites 3/4/20 – Voucher Grouchers 13: Expedition

As previously threatened, state supe Paolo DeMaria created Ohio’s “working definition for competency” (that’s definitely code for something) by setting the new graduation

Gadfly Bites 3/2/20 – Vouchers? What vouchers? No one’s talking about vouchers!

Another day, another charter school story that’s so good they didn’t have room to fit the words “charter school” in the printed story.

Gadfly Bites 2/28/20 – It’s a riddle

In case you missed it, Chad was a panelist at a recent Cleveland event discussing Ohio’s voucher program.

Gadfly Bites 2/26/20 – Dismantling

Still in something of a holding (our breath) pattern on EdChoice in Ohio, so let’s talk about some other stuff first. Big news from the world of student wellness funding. Governor DeWine says more money’s coming.

Gadfly Bites 2/24/20 – Flat, dead facts

Today’s clips are a side trip inside the universe of the voucher grouchers saga; since many of the grouchers are otherwise occupied and we are in something of a lull. Maybe think of it like the gap between production of Return of the Jedi and Phantom Menace.

Gadfly Bites 2/21/20 – Voucher Grouchers 12: Blink

In EdChoice news: [Sung to the tune of that Hamilton! song] Here Comes the Governor! (Gongwer Ohio, 2/19/20) Seriously, thou

Gadfly Bites 2/19/20 – Voucher Grouchers 11: The Treadmill of Tedious Temerity

The endless hours of EdChoice testimony continued—including this past Saturday and a nearly 10-hour marathon on Presidents Day.

Gadfly Bites 2/14/20 – Voucher Grouchers 10: Other Shoes

Updating the voucher groucher saga, the other shoe finally dropped earlier this week when the Senate at last refused to concur in the House’s Christmas stocking full of g

Gadfly Bites 2/12/20 – Voucher Grouchers 9: Slogging through Eternity

As sagas go, today’s voucher groucher update feels more like the laggy parts near the middle where the themes are expounded on but not much plot actually happens.

Gadfly Bites 2/10/20 – Lucre

While we will be talking about Ohio’s EdChoice program today and all the folks working mightily to make changes to it, we’ll take a break from the official Voucher Grouchers saga since things are reasonably quiet on that front for the moment. I guarantee that will change soon enough.

Gadfly Bites 2/7/20 – Voucher Grouchers 8: Christmas in February

When last we updated the voucher groucher saga, we noted that families and private schools had attempted to take the initiative by suing nearly everyone in state government due to the legislated delay in opening the EdChoice application process.

Gadfly Bites 2/5/20 – Voucher Grouchers 7: It’s About Time

Again due to the publication timeline of Bites, I am lagging behind the biggest news.

Gadfly Bites 2/3/20 – Voucher Grouchers 6: The Fermata

So, as you probably know, the General Assembly voted to hose families interested in getting a voucher kowtow to the voucher grouchers rather than enacting some kind of quick fix to something that wasn’t broken or indeed rather than standing pat and letting the voucher program go forward as per

Gadfly Bites 1/31/20 – Voucher Grouchers 5: The Neverending Story

Before we get to the actual news you probably came here for, how about a related side trip?

Gadfly Bites 1/27/20 – Voucher Grouchers 3: A lose-lose win-win

We’re back! With lots to talk about. But we’re not going to start where you might expect. Let’s hit some reality first.

Gadfly Bites 1/22/20 – Voucher Grouchers 2: Rise of the Have-Nots

Columbus City Schools is apparently hanging on to an eyesore/money pit of an empty, derelict school building.

Gadfly Bites 1/17/20 – Voucher Grouchers

Repetitive, soundbite-friendly carping about the EdChoice voucher program continues apace.

Gadfly Bites 1/15/20 – Is it “war” in Bridgeport?

As dedicated Gadfly Bites subscribers will no doubt recall, your humble clips compiler is of the opinion that a) the EdChoice voucher program is not “broken” (it is operating as designed, including a boost in the number of eligible students based on school report cards, which has happened before), an

Gadfly Bites 1/13/20 – Refutation

Apparently, the feared “loophole” around additional charter school funding that we discussed last week has been avoided.