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Gadfly Bites 2/9/22—Down to the penny
Here’s a long piece from the Columbus Dispatch—there are other localized versions in other outlets across the state also—
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Accountability & Testing
Federal school identification and accountability is back. Here’s what that means for Ohio.
After a two-year break—one when state assessments were cancelled entire
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 2/7/22—Love/Hate
A subset of northeast Ohio teachers and other school staffers speak out in this piece, no one holding back about why they are all s
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Gadfly Bites 2/4/22—From lake to shining lake
In case you might have missed it since it’s not strictly an education story, Intel recently announced it was going to build an enormous silicon chip production facility in exurban central Ohio, promising thousands of good new jobs to the region.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 2/2/22—The kids WILL be all right…won’t they?
Yesterday, the Dayton Daily News published an op-ed in support of the EdChoice voucher program<
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School Finance
Ohio needs to better leverage state dollars to support low-income students
For decades, analysts have observed large achievement gaps between low-income children and their peers, disparities that have only widened due to Covid.
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Charter Schools
Digging in to public school choice in Detroit
After the Brown v. Board of Education decision, school desegregation efforts in Detroit followed a familiar pattern: Busing of students to achieve racial balance was proposed, resistance and White flight occurred, and somebody sued. Milliken v. Bradley was finally decided in the U.S.
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Gadfly Bites 1/31/22—All night long
As we have noted here many many times, state fiscal intervention in school districts is literally exactly the same as Academic Distress Commissions with regard to academics. Why, I ask you for the millionth time, is the district response always different?
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Private School Choice
The anti-voucher lawsuit misleads when it comes to segregation
In the early days of January, a coalition of traditional public school districts filed a lawsuit aimed at striking down
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 1/28/22—Newsworthiness is in the eye of the beholder
I was a little flippant about the ADC district audit story on Wednesday (how not unusual, I hear you all cry), so I decided to look at the media coverage a little more closely today.
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Ohio Education By the Numbers—2022 Edition
Giving children an excellent K-12 education has long been a top priority for Ohioans. That’s no different today, but educational issues loom even larger after the pandemic-related disruptions of the past two years. To guide productive conversations about improving education, clear and accessible data are key.
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Gadfly Bites 1/26/22—New elected board present, same as the last two
It is, purportedly, a new day in the three Ohio school districts still nominally overseen by Academic Distress Commissions.
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Charter Schools
Fordham Institute statement on new national charter school rankings
Today, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) released its latest review of states’ charter school policies. This year, NAPCS ranked Ohio’s charter law as 12th out of 44 states plus the District of Columbia, a significant increase when compared to the state’s ranking in 2021 (24th).
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 1/24/22—Even the definition of “flexible” is not stable in a pandemic.
I said I wasn’t likely to clip stories about schools opening/closing/going remote unless they were excessively interesting to me. This one qualifies. Pickerington City Schools in suburban central Ohio has created a new plan to deal with staff shortages due to the pandemic.
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Gadfly Bites 1/21/22—Thank U, Next
Career-themed schools are still a thing in Toledo City School District, including what we’ll call
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Gadfly Bites 1/19/22—Wacky Wednesday
An interesting discussion of the importance of education in the Black community comes to us from Lima.
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Private School Choice
The anti-voucher lawsuit misses the mark in its constitutional arguments
If you’re at all involved in Ohio education policy, you’ve heard about the anti-voucher lawsuit that was recently filed by the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding.
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School Finance
EdChoice lawsuit twists the truth about school funding in Ohio
Last week, five school districts filed a lawsuit in the Franklin County courts that attempts to strike down EdChoice, Ohio’s private scholarship program that serves roughly 50,000 school children, many of whom are among the need
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 1.14.22
Groveport Madison Local Schools have sued the state of Ohio in response to a massive fine levied upon them for failing to properly transport resident charter and private school students over
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 1/14/22—Can we send a phalanx of bunnies to DC?
Ohio is one of 19 states whose state chapter withdrew from the National Association of School Boards last year in reaction to….well, you know.
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Standards
What does a new mayor mean for Cleveland schools?
On January 3, Justin Bibb was sworn in as the new mayor of Cleveland. His inauguration marks the first time the city has had new leadership since 2006.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 1/12/22—Bureaucracy strikes again
Last week, it was the new school funding system delayed due to the…intricacies...of operationalizing new legislation.
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Gadfly Bites 1/10/22—Cold doses of reality
OSU professor and Columbus City Schools dad Vladimir Kogan hit the pages of the Dispatch today with a cold dose of reality.
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Gadfly Bites 1/7/22—The future could be now
I’m sure my long-suffering tenured subscribers have noted that I am not clipping stories about which schools are closed/open/remote/in-person/hybrid/winging it due to SARS-CoV-2-related issues these days, despite the fact that education reporters (and government reporters and crime reporters a
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Private School Choice
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 1.6.22
Welcome back to our first edition of 2022, covering news from 12/17 – 12/31/21. We will return to regular weekly publication on Fridays starting tomorrow. Life advice and career advice
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 1/5/22—New lawsuit just dropped!
Remember last year when Red (Taylor’s Version) dropped and everyone was really excited that Taylor Swift had rerecorded her amazing album—making it even better in the process—in order to reclaim ownership of her music?
