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Gadfly Bites 8/19/19 – Mud
I realize that Willard, Ohio, is a long way from Columbus. I will also grant that school superintendents are busy people even in the summer.
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Gadfly Bites 8/16/19 – Declining
Things are quiet in the Statehouse these days. Too quiet. The lull is allowing Capitol Square reporters to branch out.
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Gadfly Bites 8/14/19 – Putting a lid on awesome
Well well well. We discussed on Monday how Akron City Schools seems to have perpetrated something of a bait-and-switch with regard to the outcomes imagined for its new career academies (“We are not built on the premise that we are producing a certain career field.”).
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How student wellness funding could improve student discipline
Last summer, Governor Kasich signed House Bill 318, a wide-ranging school safety and security bill.
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Gadfly Bites 8/12/19 – High stakes, small potatoes, and cold spaghetti
Chad Aldis published an op-ed
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Gadfly Bites 8/7/19 – Swiper!
With the dawning of a new school year comes the inevitable stories about transportation woes.
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Gadfly Bites 8/5/19 – Winners, losers, and what comes next
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Four things the budget didn’t do that Ohio lawmakers should tackle next
Last fall, Fordham began releasing a series of education reform proposals for policymakers to consider in the budget cycle.
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Gadfly Bites 7/29/19 – What’s next? “Board Members on Buses”?
We talked last week about the recent meetings of the elected school boards in Youngstown and Lorain.
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Gadfly Bites 7/24/19 – There’s so much awesomeness we have to cut back
As my loyal Gadfly Bites subscribers know very well (love to all five of you!), your humble clips compiler loves to unearth obscure stories from odd outlet
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Gadfly Bites 7/22/19 – “We cannot say that when we have a failing school that the status quo is acceptable.”
We’re still in Post-Budget Land around here, based on the available material for clips today.
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Gadfly Bites 7/19/19 – “If we don’t do everything to help them succeed, it’s the kids we are failing. It’s on us.”
In case you missed it, Ohio has a
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Here’s where the budget landed on four big education policies
About a month ago, I took a look at four of the most significant education policies that were set to be debated in conference committee.
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Education in the state budget, at a glance
Governor Mike DeWine is expected to sign the state budget bill, House Bill 166, into law today. HB 166 is chock full of education provisions that extend far beyond the dollars and cents of funding allocations.
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Gadfly Bites 7/17/19 – Like she wasn’t even there…
Before we get into budget stuff, there are a couple of other items to talk about.
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Gadfly Bites 7/15/19 – Choice is good
Chad trekked over to the Spectrum News offices last week to
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Why “local control” won’t fix Ohio’s struggling school districts
NOTE: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute occasionally publishes guest commentaries. Their views do not necessarily reflect those of Fordham.
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Gadfly Bites 7/10/19 – Calling it like it is
Spectrum News 1 visited our conference room a while back to ask Chad
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Gadfly Bites 7/8/19 – Throwing things
The ECOT boogeyman looms large in this piece, rehashing the whole story from what is meant to be a brand new perspective.
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Gadfly Bites 7/5/19 – Deflated
School districts in Ohio have been dealing with the scourge of grade inflation—blamed largely on dual enrollment in college courses—by doing away with the
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Gadfly Bites 7/3/19 – Focusing on the wrong things
From the What Did You Expect Department: A
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Gadfly Bites 6/28/19 – Which is it?
Following on with our theme from yesterday, little birdies in the Statehouse are apparently suggesting that changes to the state’s intervention efforts int
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Gadfly Bites 6/26/19 – Stand. Alone.
While our clips have in the last several weeks focused heavily on the state budget process, it is only now at the end where the plaintive cries of “But Ohi
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Gadfly Bites 6/24/19 – Saying or doing
Happy Monday! We start today with the topic of charter school funding.
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Gadfly Bites 6/21/19 – So much budget news, so little time
Our title today is a little misleading.
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Gadfly Bites 6/19/19 – Sounds like a Wes Anderson movie to me
A blog post by our own Jessica Poiner is cited in this announcemen
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