A modest proposal for pension reform
The state budget deficit and collective bargaining reform are consuming much of the energy at the Statehouse, but legislators are also considering much-needed fixes to the state’s public pension systems.
The state budget deficit and collective bargaining reform are consuming much of the energy at the Statehouse, but legislators are also considering much-needed fixes to the state’s public pension systems.
A new policy and research organization has opened shop in the Buckeye State. Innovation Ohio (IO) bills itself as a “nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting public policy that moves Ohio ahead without leaving some of its people behind.” The organization is led by former deputy chief of staff to Governor Strickland, Janetta King.
Last week marked history for the Buckeye State and its low-income children, as well as for the dozens if not hundreds of reform advocates who’ve been fighting to ensure that Teach For America finally grows roots in Ohio.
Earlier this month, MetLife released the findings of Part I of their annual education survey, which focuses on what it means to be “college and career ready.” The survey polled middle and high school teachers, students, parents, and Fortune 1000 executives to determine how they feel about the college and career-readiness goal and what students need to do to reach it. Major takeaways
Moving from quality-blind to quality-based layoffs is integral to today’s education-reform agenda. Yet figuring out how best to pull this off in a productive, teacher-friendly manner has been a whopping challenge.
The authors don’t beat around the bush: Bad charters may exist, but so do excellent ones—and the latter should be supported and scaled to serve exponentially more students. If the top 10 percent of charter schools expanded at a rate similar to other growing industries, we learn from this PPI study, they could reach all children in poverty by 2025.
With all the collective bargaining hullabaloo of late, it’s hard to imagine a more opportune time for the release of Terry Moe’s new book, Special Interest: Teacher Unions and America’s Public Schools.
The 2010 census numbers came out this month and ???shrinkage??? is the defining term for Ohio's cities. Cleveland shrunk by 17 percent over the last decade and fell to 396,815 residents, a 100-year low. Cincinnati lost 10 percent of its population and is down to 297,000 residents, also a 100-year low. Toledo contracted by nine percent and now has a population of 287,208.
Terry Moe?s magnum opus
RTI may be good, but how good is still in question
Peering into the education-statistics looking glass
Today marks history for the Buckeye State, its low-income children, and its failing schools, as well as for the dozens if not hundreds of education reform advocates who've been pushing for the last decade for Teach For America - Ohio.
To walk from a conversation about the need for a common core curriculum to one about turning schools into digital gaming parlors modeled after Grand Theft Auto ? well, it's what we in the business call a head jerk.
The bickering between the Baltimore Teachers Union and the KIPP charter network involving overtime pay for teachers in two KIPP schools has come to a close.?
Governor Kasich unveiled his much-anticipated biennial budget proposal Tuesday. True to his word, the budget doesn’t raise taxes and will change, in some cases significantly, how Ohio government – including the state’s 610 local school districts – does business.
Last week Fordham President Chester E. Finn, Jr. was in Ohio and stopped in Dayton (Fordham’s hometown and his) to give a speech to the Dayton Rotary Club. The speech, Reforming America’s Schools: Where Things Stand in 2011, highlighted the major education reform efforts and struggles associated with them since the mid-1980s.
Columbus Collegiate Academy, a Fordham-authorized charter school in one of Columbus’s poorest neighborhoods (Weinland Park), has just been awarded the Gold-Gain EPIC award by New Leaders for New Schools for dramatic gains in student achievement.
A big congratulations are due to KIPP Journey Academy students McKeala Hudson and Michael Robinson, who were recently accepted into the KIPP STEP Summer Program at Deerfield Academy!
Over the past several weeks, Fordham staff members have testified before committees of the Ohio House and Senate on several pieces of education-related legislation. You can read more about these testimonies by checking out summaries on Fordham’s blog, Flypaper, which have been excerpted below.
Last week, economist and education policy expert Eric Hanushek testified in a joint meeting of the Ohio House and Senate education committees.
This week 140+ local school district leaders and members of the business and philanthropic communities gathered in northern Ohio to take part in two Doing More with Less in K-12 Education events. The events, one held at Cleveland State University and the other at <
A big congratulations to KIPP Journey Academy students McKeala Hudson and Michael Robinson, who were recently accepted into the KIPP STEP Summer Program at Deerfield Academy! Yes, that Deerfield Academy ?