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Gadfly Bites 3/9/26—Sweetheart deals
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Gadfly Bites 3/6/26—In former Soviet Union, career choose YOU
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Gadfly Bites 3/4/26—TBD
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Gadfly Bites 3/2/26—Worthy of emulation
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Gadfly Bites 2/27/26—The pathway
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Gadfly Bites 2/25/26—Sounds like you want us to be sorry about that
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Ohio Education By the Numbers—2026 Edition
The brand new and fully updated ninth edition of our Ohio education guidebook is out now. It offers policymakers, journalists, and civic and business leaders easy-to-use statistics—sans commentary—about Ohio’s K-12 schools and the students they serve.
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Gadfly Bites 2/23/26—Superintendent! Yes, Superintendent!
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Gadfly Bites 2/20/26—Down the toilet, or Plumbing the depths
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Gadfly Bites 2/18/26—You know…don’t you?
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Does missing school harm students even when they aren’t “chronically absent”?
Researchers, policymakers, educators, and journalists have focused copious amounts of attention on student absenteeism data in the years since a pandemic-era surge that is only now beginning to moderate.
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Gadfly Bites 2/16/26—Hometown heroes
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Gadfly Bites 2/13/26—No Duh-adjacent
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Gadfly Bites 2/11/26—Offensive strategy
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Gadfly Bites 2/9/26—Not learning
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Gadfly Bites 2/6/26—How someone else always gets us into trouble and why someone else must always get us out of it
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Gadfly Bites 2/4/26—Perhaps TOO simple
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Two innovative ways Ohio could combat chronic absenteeism
Ohio kids have recently missed quite a few days of school courtesy of abundant snow and frigid temperatures. For most, this brief time away won’t have a significant academic impact.
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Gadfly Bites 2/2/26—Stone cold
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Gadfly Bites 1/30/26—I can almost hear the Archangels singing already
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Gadfly Bites 1/28/26—Are you in or are you out?
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Gadfly Bites 1/26/26—Nobody moves downtown for the schools
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Gadfly Bites 1/23/26—Yeah…no
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Gadfly Bites 1/21/26—Slush, stench, wobble, and perspective
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Student outcomes are better in non-union versus unionized public schools
Researchers looking at the impacts of teachers union membership on schools have had an easier time focusing on finance-related outcomes—including former student
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Gadfly Bites 1/16/26—Here’s why not to go “government-to-government”
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Gadfly Bites 1/14/26—Hot topic
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Gadfly Bites 1/12/26—Tangible impact
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Gadfly Bites 1/9/26—Rubber/glue
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Gadfly Bites 1/7/26—Clearer, but still pretty complicated
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