Gadfly Bites 3/1/23—Around the Statehouse
We start our state government tour with the Controlling Board, the members of w
We start our state government tour with the Controlling Board, the members of w
California is among a handful of states that require the least amount of high school math to earn a diploma—just two courses.
This national story is about how ability grouping in classrooms works, including findings from a number of studies into its effectiveness.
Nice coverage of Governor DeWine’s all-in push to make the science of reading the law of the land he
This feels like good news to me: It was announced last week that Ohio will join the group o
Ohio’s state auditor and the president of the Ohio Association of Community Colleges published
The Senate Education Committee heard testimony on SB 1 yesterday.
NOTE: Today, the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee heard testimony on SB 1
Last week, Governor DeWine delivered the first state of the state address of his second term.
As I was reading this piece about
There’s not much substantive detail in this coverage, but the Ohio Department o
While Governor DeWine’s budget priorities included billions (billions I say!) to support a huge range of K-12 education priorities, lotsa folks out here in punditland only want to talk about proposed EdChoice Scholarship
Today, Governor Mike DeWine announced his state budget priorities for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 in his state of the state address. Among his K–12 education proposals include bold steps that would greatly strengthen Ohio’s school choice programs.
Many states fund students who utilize school choice—public charter schools, private school voucher programs, interdistrict open enrollment, and the like—via “passthrough” mechanisms whereby per-pupil funding goes into a student’s home district coffers first before being transferred to the schools that stud
The superintendent of LaBrae Local Schools (nope, me neither) has a list of interesting questions that
There are, in my estimation, only two people in Ohio (outside of state government, that is) who truly understand our school funding system. Neither of them is me.
In December, state lawmakers rocked the boat during an otherwise sleepy lame duck session by moving forward with a proposal to significantly overhaul Ohio’s education governance structure.
Despite the somewhat-traditional National School Choice Week snowfall,
It’s an all-Urban 8 edition today.
We first noted this…unusual story last Friday, and simply alluded to it in the Bites because it seemed fanciful at the time.
Today, Senator Bill Reineke introduced Senate Bill 1, legislation that would dramatically change the duties of the State Board of Education, create a Department of Education and Workforce Development, and make the new department part of the governor’s cabinet.
First things first: Looks like a deal was reached between Akron City Schools and its teachers union at some point over the weekend.
Our recent report on the impacts of Ohio’s EdChoice program on traditional district schools is one of two choice-focused report