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Policy Brief: Ohio Community School Governance
A thorough overview of Ohio's charter/community school governance framework
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Gadfly Bites 2/22/19 – What is the early bird to do if the worm doesn’t show up?
Editors in Columbus opined yesterday on at least part of the findings in the latest CREDO study of charter school performance in Ohio.
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Gadfly Bites 2/18/19 – You are Here
At least one district treasurer in Butler County finds the biennial state budget process “complicated and scary”.
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No, Ohio shouldn’t give up on its academic distress commissions
Authorized in 2005, Academic Distress Commissions (ADCs) are the state’s mechanism for int
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Gadfly Bites 2/15/19 – Perhaps deconstruction is the sincerest form of flattery
In case you haven’t been following it (and who can blame you with everything else going on here?), a battle royale has been raging in neighboring West Virg
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Gadfly Bites 2/11/19 – The other shoe
The Path Forward series returns to the pages of Dayton Daily News, chronicling the efforts of Dayton City Schools to avoid state takeover start serv
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Gadfly Bites 2/8/19 – Thus bud’s for you…maybe
We told you a while back about a Toledo native and “herbal entrepreneur” (shall we say) who says
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Gadfly Bites 2/6/19 – Learning called off on account of snow
This week’s Dayton City Schools board meeting was supposed to be about reading and reviewing a draft strategic plan for future awesomeness.
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Gadfly Bites 2/4/19 – What does a “D” taste like exactly?
The Speaker of the Ohio House held an (extremely) informal presser late last week, talking about his priorities for the new General Assembly session.
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Gadfly Bites 2/1/19 – The “no time to be clever” edition
Compiler’s note: The hellacious weather around here has destroyed my productivity this week so today you lucky lucky subscribers (I love all five of you—truly) will get to see behind the scenes of what I laughingly call my “process”. Below is simply the list of clips I’ve got for you today, with a couple of words to denote why it’s interesting/important/worth clipping.
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Gadfly Bites 1/30/19 – “We routinely talk about how we can impact our students and their learning experiences.” OK. But what, exactly, do you DO?
Nina Rees, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, t
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Gadfly Bites 1/28/19 – “It’s showed me I can do new, hard things.”
Our own Aaron Churchill had an op-ed in the Di
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Gadfly Bites 1/25/19 – Say Hmmm… to Education?
We start today with further praise for the Say Yes to Education program
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Gadfly Bites 1/18/19 – A single question with implications for tax policy, household budget, and gastronomy
When I was in school, a B- grade was nothing to rest upon.
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Gadfly Bites 1/11/19 – The Lorain Variations
Here are two variations of how Lorain City Schools CEO’s first Town Hall meeting of 2019 went. They are somewhat different in tone and content.
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Gadfly Bites 1/4/19 – The cart before the horse
A belated happy new year to all my loyal Gadfly Bites subscribers! At last, we’re catching up to all of the exciting education news clips so far in 2019. As with our 2018 wrap up, these clips are mainly presented in chronological order rather than organized to tell a story.
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Successfully supporting community college students in Ohio
In 2015, Ohio imported a successful program used to help community college students in the City University of New York (CUNY) system persist in school and complete a degree in three years or less.
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Reflections on the 5 most interesting education stories in a topsy-turvy 2018
Like the roller-coasters at Cedar Point, the past year had its highs and lows.
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Predicting the top education issues for 2019
Some have said that we’ve reached the end of education policy, but that seems to be far from the case in Ohio.
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Gadfly Bites 12/31/18 – The tail end
We’re back with a wrap up of education stories from the end of 2018 (published between 12/22 and 12/31)! These are listed in chronological order (mainly) rather than arranged to tell a story as per usual. Apologies for my appalling lack of effort. New Year, New Resolve. I Promise.
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Gadfly Bites 12/21/18 – “So busy being academic”
Our own Chad Aldis is quoted in this piece expressing hope that a “long term