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In case you missed it all, the amended version of HB 67 we previewed on Monday was heard and voted out of its House
In case you missed it all, the amended version of HB 67 we previewed on Monday was heard and voted out of its House
It’s state budget time in Ohio, and as experts like to remind us, budgets reflect priorities. In the area of K–12 education, legislators should maintain a focus on empowering parents to take more control of their kids’ education and improving the educational outcomes of less advantaged students.
Some testimony was heard in the legislature this week on the latest version of a school funding overhaul bill, including from our own Chad Aldis.
NOTE: On Monday, March 1, 2021, members of the House Finance Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education heard testimony on House Bill 1, which would create a new school funding system for Ohio. Chad L.
With Covid-19 cases dropping, teachers getting vaccinated, and new data and guidance coming in all the time showing th
Last week, the Ohio House unveiled House Bill 110, the legislative vehicle for Governor DeWine’s budget proposal.
With four years of student-level data available, a recent report from the College Board evaluates its own effort to boost the participation of traditionally-underrepresented students in computer science and other STEM fields.
I include this piece in the clips today due to the fact that data from Fordham’s fantastic Ohio By the Numbers annually-update trove of vital education information is used within it.
State testing to happen on schedule
Here’s a bit more coverage of Chad’s testimony—and that of Ohio Excels’ Lisa Gray—given this week in support of conducting testing this sp
In case you missed it, late on Monday the U.S. Department of Education announced that it would not be offering testing waivers to states for this school year.
NOTE: On Tuesday, February 23, 2021, members of the House Primary and Secondary Education Committee heard testimony on House Bill 67 which would seek to waive testing in Ohio’s schools for the 2020–21 school year.
Last spring, Governor DeWine signed legislation that eliminated state tests and paused school accountability sanctions for the 2019–20 school year. Efforts by the education establishment to extend these changes through the 2020–21 school year began almost immediately.
The headline of this piece on Dayton area school reopenings grabbed my attention the moment I saw it.
Fordham’s Chad Aldis appeared on the redefinED podcast with host Matt Ladner, talking about the state of interdistrict open enrollment in the Buckeye S
Under pressure from the school establishment and teachers unions, Ohio lawmakers recently filed bills that seek to cancel state assessments this spring.
We start today in one of the bougiest of central Ohio’s bougie burbs: New Albany-Plain Local Schools.
In a time when the “traditional” K–12 educational experience is going through upheaval and reconfiguration into myriad pandemic-influenced shapes and sizes, it is important to note that many of the so-called innovations students are experiencing are not new. Sudden shutdowns of school buildings?
In case you missed it, Governor DeWine reappeared before the press—Columbo-style—just as everyone was heading out for the weekend late on Friday.
It’s no secret that the pandemic has been extraordinarily difficult on education. Reopening decisions, complex in-person safety protocols, virtual school, and the specter of learning loss have made the past year tough.
The opportunity for a better life
There may be eight inches of snow on the ground here, but our Chad Aldis was on the radio this week talking about summer school.
At this point, it’s common knowledge that Covid-related school closures are having a major impact on students. Absenteeism rates are high.
Interdistrict open enrollment, one of the longest running and most popular forms of school choice, unlocks public school options for more than 80,000 Ohio students. It allows children to attend school in a district other than the one they live in.
As we noted on Friday, someone was bound to come along with more detail on the Ohio student enrollment data released la
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Budget season in Ohio is always fraught, but factor in the pandemic and accompanying economic downturn and we can be sure that the next few months will be even more heated than usual. Ohioans should expect plenty of education-related proposals in the mix.