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Gadfly Bites 9/16/19 – Required nuance
Some surprisingly nuanced discussion of the online charter school environment in Ohio 18 months or so after the demise of ECOT
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School Finance
Fair funding plans don’t stop at the school district level
Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts on school funding in Ohio.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/13/19 – Report card drama!
Before we get to the big news of the week, let’s take a brief moment to talk about awesome young people.
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Accountability & Testing
Fordham Institute media statement on school report cards
Today, the Ohio Department of Education released annual report cards for Ohio’s 610 school districts and roughly 3,500 public schools. Based on data from the 2018-19 school year, report cards include a user-friendly, overall rating along with component ratings that provide additional context.
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Gadfly Bites 9/11/19 – “We have to own where we are.”
As promised, the Senate Education Committee yesterday took a look at a bill promising some big changes to the state’s academic distress paradigm.
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Accountability & Testing
Testimony given before the Senate Education Committee on substitute House Bill 154—9/10/19
NOTE: Today the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee heard testimony on a substitute version of House Bill 154, addressing
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Accountability & Testing
Ohio’s voucher testing changes might worry special needs advocates
When President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) into law back in December 2015, it marke
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/9/19 – More folks see the light
Fordham’s new report on postsecondary readiness for Ohio high school grads got a little more coverage over the weekend, of just the sort I think we were looking for. To wit: the county rankings.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/6/19 – Bud Simpson sees the light
In case you missed it, Fordham-Ohio’s latest report was released yesterday.
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Accountability & Testing
The Mountain Ahead: A report on the college and career readiness of Ohio students
Across the nation, headlines have trumpeted soaring high-school graduation rates. Ohio is no exception. Lofty rates leave the impression that the vast majority of students are ready to take their next steps in life. But the truth is that too many students exit high school not fully prepared for college and career.
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Gadfly Bites 9/4/19 – Lots of options
Our own Chad Aldis is quoted in this primer on the new graduation requirements in place for this year’s high school freshmen.
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Accountability & Testing
Three school turnaround lessons to learn from Tennessee
Since 2005, Ohio has intervened in persistently-low performing school districts by establishing new leadership via an
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 8.30.19
“A lot of people have strong opinions on both sides.”
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Gadfly Bites 8/30/19 – Education today the “Dayton Way”
You wanted the deets on Lorain City Schools CEO David Hardy’s job evaluation. You know you did.
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School Finance
School funding in Ohio: Are poor districts getting a fair share?
The first two blog posts in my series about school funding lo
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/28/19 – Slimmest of pickings edition
What can I say about this train wreck of an issue? The news cycle giveth and the news cycle faileth to give sometimes.
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Gadfly Bites 8/26/19 – Mixed bag
I’m a little bit late in getting to this, but if you were interested in seeing the inside of the new ReGenerations School, a Fordham-sponsored charter scho
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Gadfly Bites 8/23/19 – Potential toxicity
Here is a nice look at the opening day at Marion Preparatory Academy, a new charter school in Marion.
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Private School Choice
Ohio’s voucher students no longer have to take state tests—here’s why that matters
About a month ago, Governor DeWine signed Ohio’s general operating budget into law.
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Gadfly Bites 8/21/19 – The good, the bad, and the ugly of the first days of school
It’s back to school time across Ohio and the local news media is covering it from lots of angles. First up: the good.
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Career & Technical Education
Funding employer-led job training
Worker skills and employer needs are often misaligned. Young people, for instance, may leave high school or college with a sturdy grounding in math and English, but ill-equipped to manage a customer database, take a patient’s vital signs, or handle a piece of machinery.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/19/19 – Mud
I realize that Willard, Ohio, is a long way from Columbus. I will also grant that school superintendents are busy people even in the summer.
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Accountability & Testing
Ohio needs a better process for improving poor-performing schools
Public education is no stranger to controversy. Whether it’s standardized testing, academic standards, graduation requirements, charter schools or school funding, discussion and disputation are part of the deal.
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Accountability & Testing
Three key questions Ohio’s school report card committee should answer
School report cards, the primary mechanism through which Ohio maintains transparency and accountability for academic outcomes, have been a hotly debated topic. Critics argue that the ratings track too closely with pupil demographics, some decry the shift to the more transparent and easily understood A–F rating system, while still others are just unhappy with the results.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/16/19 – Declining
Things are quiet in the Statehouse these days. Too quiet. The lull is allowing Capitol Square reporters to branch out.
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Teachers & School Leaders
A culture of coaching
NOTE: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute occasionally publishes guest commentaries on its blogs. The views expressed by guest authors do not necessarily reflect those of Fordham.
