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Can equitable funding and local control coexist?
Aaron ChurchillDo Ohio’s public finance policies help or hinder the effort to give a great education to all students, no matter their economic circumstances?
2015 State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Ohio
Jessica PoinerHow Ohio fared in this year’s review
Education in Ohio: The best and worst of 2015
Jamie Davies O'Leary, Jeff MurrayThe top 3 best and worst things we saw this year
Gadfly Bites - 12/21/15
Jeff MurrayWhat the heck is up with the Youngstown Academic Distress Commission? Nothing and everything
The Best and Worst in Education in Ohio in 2015: Teaser Edition
Jeff Murray, Jamie Davies O'LearyLooking back at the year in education, part 1
Text of testimony given before the Ohio Board of Education 12/14/15
Chad L. AldisWritten remarks
Gadfly Bites - 12/11/15
Jeff MurrayThe parental "broccoli rule" to guide new state policy on truancy
Ohio’s charter school closure law is becoming irrelevant, and that’s a good thing
Jamie Davies O'LearyNew reforms should be more effective at closing bad schools
Ohio teacher evaluations: Fix them, don’t ditch them
Jessica PoinerESEA reauthorization provides an important lens through which to view OTES
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Ohio Education GadflyNews you can really use
Gadfly Bites - 11/25/15
Jeff MurrayInto the cage with "Similar Students" vs. "Value Added" measures
Gadfly Bites - 11/23/15
Jeff MurrayOur own Aaron Churchill is briefly quoted in this piece taking a preliminary look at preliminary PARCC test scores. Aaron notes that this is only preliminary data. Preliminarily. (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 11/20/15)
Gadfly Bites - 11/18/15
Jeff MurrayDayton City Schools still has 35 teaching vacancies to fill four months into the year. Officials are blaming large scale retirement of veteran teachers, despite having 81 new applicants show up at a recent job fair.