In the wake of the November elections, hundreds of new school board members will soon take their seats overseeing Ohio’s 600 plus districts.
We’re back after a short break. Looks like we missed a couple of humdingers. Let’s get to it!
The 2020-21 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report provides insight into our sponsorship work during the last school year, one of the most challenging imaginable for schools, students, and families.
Note: There will be no edition of the Charter News Weekly on Thanksgiving week. Two more charters for West Virginia
Gadfly Bites will be taking a little break on Friday. (Stop cheering back there, you ingrates!) We’ll be back on Monday to catch up with whatever exhausting shenanigans have happened in the interim.
Passed almost a decade ago, the aptly named Third Grade Reading Guarantee aims to ensure that every Ohio student reads proficiently by the end of third grade. That goal makes perfect sense. All children need foundational reading skills to succeed in middle and high school and beyond.
The recently passed state budget created an off-ramp for districts under the control of an
The term “dual enrollment” is often used to refer to young people earning college credits while simultaneously completing their high school coursework.
In case you missed it, the state board of education elected a new president and vice president this morning
Let’s start with the best news of the week: A groundbreaking ceremony was held earlier this week for a new charter school in Cincinnati the first IDEA school in t
Fordham’s own Chad Aldis testified before the House Primary and Secondary Education Committee yesterday on SB 229.
NOTE: Today, the Ohio House of Representatives’ Primary and Secondary Education Committee heard testimony on SB 229.
If you, like me, were hoping that passage of the new school funding formula—and especially the end of those hated school choice deductions from district finances—would make district treasurers happier than dogs in a butcher’s shop, early indications are that you were mistaken.
Afterschool enrichment accounts for Ohio families
The elected board of Youngstown City Schools voted earlier this week to amend their academic “improvement” plan per the recommendations returned to t
The new nominal head of the Cleveland Metropolitan School district is… But you already guessed that, didn’t you? (The Land, 11/2/21)
Regardless of whether you believe that too much is being asked of our schools and our educators these days, it is always worth asking whether th
The most commonly expressed motivator for school districts to adopt a four-day school week is monetary: lowering expenditures on hourly staff, transportation, and utilities costs. It is not incidental that the most recent uptick in districts opting for them was in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
In case you missed it while you were busy finalizing your costume for Halloween, Governor DeWine appointed two new state school board members late in
Since 2005, Ohio has intervened in chronically underperforming school districts by establishing new leadership in the form of an
As we have been following in these here clips, the pilot program for a new approach to Covid-exposure quarantines in schools was deemed a success.
In mid-October, the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) released report card data for the 2020–21 school year. Due to pandemic-era provisions passed earlier this year, no school ratings were available—only raw data. Ohio will return to standard protocol and issue ratings next fall, but even without them, there are important things to highlight.
The leaders of Akron City Schools say they want a “reset” after dealing with a concerning uptick in behavio
Here is a story about the status of the three Ohio school districts currently operating under the (nominal) aegis of an Academic Distress Commission.
Repeat after me: “Report cards are just a snapshot. Tests do not define our students.
In our topsy turvy tour of education news clips today, we start with Fairview Park City Schools, which appears to be heavily recruiting students to attend its swanky, newly-upgraded high school next year.
Hot-button education topics such as masking, vaccines, and critical race theory have dominated headlines this fall. But lost in the shuffle are a few notable items that have also made news—but barely—and have significant implications for Ohio policymakers.
