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Gadfly Bites 1/10/20 – Stunning
We start today with some excellent news (IMO, naturally).
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Gadfly Bites 1/8/20 – Off the table
Our first piece today is yet another look at the EdChoice voucher program from the perspective of a suburban school district leader.
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Gadfly Bites 1/6/20 – Bug or feature?
Slim pickings for us among the education news today. But at least this piece includes some quotes from our own Chad Aldis.
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Gadfly Bites 1/3/20 – The board you deserve or the board you desire
The sitting members of the Youngstown school board are going to, at some point, search for someone to take the place of Barbara Brothers.
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Gadfly Bites 1/2/20 – The last dregs of 2019
This is a special Thursday edition of Gadfly Bites, catching up on all the great/horrifying/mystifying (delete as appropriate) clips we missed while we were on break at the end of 2019. Back to regular service for 2020 tomorrow.
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Fordham Ohio’s most-read blog posts of 2019
It’s that time of year once again—when the work is on pause, the computer keys are quiet, and the email boxes are weirdly dormant. Time to look back and see what pieces you, our generous and discerning readers, engaged with the most in 2019. In (almost) chronological order:
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The top 5 Ohio education policy stories of 2019
2019 was a busy year for education in Ohio. Governor DeWine took office in January, replacing the term-limited John Kasich. The spring and summer months were dominated by the state budget cycle. And the latter half of the year was characterized by familiar controversies.
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Gadfly Bites 12/20/19 – Another empty room
Columnist Tom Troy (also an associate editor) at the Blade, joined the chorus of voices disappoint
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Gadfly Bites 12/18/19 – Predictability
Ohio’s Report Card Study Committee released its report earlier this week. Its findings are meant to guide lawmakers in making possible changes to said report cards.
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Gadfly Bites 12/16/19 – What’s the opposite of expert testimony?
Bites is back with you after a tiny hiatus last Friday. So sorry to leave you hanging. Lots to talk about, so let’s dive in!
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Gadfly Bites 12/11/19 – Differentiation is hard
I fear I have run out of clever ways to discuss the level and form of heartburn being expressed throughout the state over the size of the new EdChoice voucher e
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Gadfly Bites 12/9/19 – It burns
We start with a two-fer for Fordham from last Friday’s Gongwer.
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Gadfly Bites 12/6/19 – Frustration
Whining and opining continue in response to the conference call to arms regard to the EdChoice Scholarship program.
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Gadfly Bites 12/4/19 – The Conference Call
Who knew that Monday’s stinker of a story from Fairless Local Schools would come home to roost (still with the bird puns!) so soon?
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Gadfly Bites 12/2/19 – Mixed messages
We’re back after a long holiday break with lots to cover. So let’s get to it.
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Gadfly Bites 11/27/19 – Trends
Folks in Lorain are keeping their eyes firmly on the future, it seems.
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Gadfly Bites 11/25/19 – Treasurers say the darnedest things
I hate to be an old I Told Ya So, but it seems that Dayton City Schools’ plan to boost student attendance by spending massively on public transportation has moved the ne
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Gadfly Bites 11/22/19 – When families don’t buy what you’re selling
As expected, Plain Local Schools is going to court—federal court—to stop a new state law which makes it easier for property owners in the district to win a rezoning request to join
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Gadfly Bites 11/20/19 – Swimming in money, drowning in debt
I’m not sure I follow all the arguments here, but let me see if I can summarize.
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Gadfly Bites 11/18/19 – Two thumbs down
This is an editorial which exonerates the Lorain school board and every other area official and meddling rando who obstructed David Hardy’s work a
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Gadfly Bites 11/15/19 – If that’s what you get for boosting a report card…
Ohio’s Report Card Study Committee met this week to talk turkey about all of the various parts making up school and district report cards.
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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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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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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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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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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.
