Gadfly Bites 3/10/23—“Getting right into the meat and heat of it”
In case you missed it, Fordham’s Vice President for Ohio Policy (a.k.a, my boss
In case you missed it, Fordham’s Vice President for Ohio Policy (a.k.a, my boss
Almost a decade ago, my former boss Terry Ryan wrote: “Education governance in Ohio is broken.... The governance structures for education in this state are multi-layered, fractured, and leaderless. No one is really in charge. The buck stops nowhere.”
Chad Aldis is among the analysts speaking on the topic of House Bill 11 in this piece
NOTE: Today, the Ohio House Primary and Secondary Education Committee heard testimony on HB 12 which would, among other things, make substantial changes to the state’s K-12
During his first term, Governor DeWine established a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at helping schools address the non-academic needs of students.
Only one clip today, but it’s another doozy.
Ohio Education By the Numbers
A couple more items from around the Statehouse lead us off today.
Ensuring that all Ohio students receive an excellent education remains an important priority for state and community leaders. As Governor DeWine himself recently noted, a quality education for all is a “moral imperative” for Ohio. Making good on this obligation starts with a solid understanding of the state of K-12 education in Ohio.
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.
Governor DeWine’s budget recommendations are out, and they tackle a host of education issues.
Happening now in Ohio charter schools
Ohio has long underfunded charter schools. Back in 2004, we at Fordham published a Dayton-specific study finding that the city’s charters received just two-thirds of the revenue as the local district.
Nice coverage of Governor DeWine’s all-in push to make the science of reading the law of the land he
This being a budget year, state lawmakers will soon be delving into the minutia of school funding. To help inform these discussions, we’ve begun a series looking at Ohio’s funding system, including a deep-dive into the new formula that lawmakers enacted in 2021 and which Governor DeWine has proposed to maintain.
This feels like good news to me: It was announced last week that Ohio will join the group o
In 2013, Mississippi passed a comprehensive early literacy policy aimed at ensuring that students can read proficiently by the end of third grade, which research shows is a make-or-break benchmark.
Celebration and appreciation
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.
English learners (ELs) are students whose native language is other than English and who score below proficient on an English proficiency test. There were more than 5 million ELs in U.S.
As I was reading this piece about
Budget coverage, media style
There’s not much substantive detail in this coverage, but the Ohio Department o
Since first taking office in 2019, Governor DeWine has consistently prioritized policies aimed at expanding and improving career-technical education (CTE).