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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/26/25—Counting on
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Governance
Amid sky-high absenteeism, Columbus shouldn’t yank busing from high school students
In the latest saga at Columbus City Schools, district officials are mulling the elimination of busing for
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 11.24.25
Author's Note: This is a special edition of Ohio Charter News, posted on a Monday to catch up on some important news stories from the last 10 days. We will not publish on Friday of this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday and will return on Friday, December 5 with all the charter news you can use!
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/24/25—Eliminating outside agendas and distractions
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Charter Schools
2025 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report
Our 2025 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report details our work providing monitoring, oversight, and technical assistance to ten charter schools on nineteen campuses—serving over 6,000 students—throughout Ohio.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/19/25—All the news there is
News stories featured in Gadfly Bites may require a paid subscription to read in full. Today's story definitely does. Just sayin’. There was no education news worth talking about on Monday, thus no Bites. Today is hardly better.
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Accountability & Testing
Testimony provided on Senate Bill 19—11/18/25
Today, the Ohio Senate Education Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 19 which aims to establish academic intervention services at public schools and to implement mathematics improvement and intervention plans.
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Private School Choice
Here’s how Ohio can help families make more informed school choices
Ohio families investigating public school options have lots of readily-available data to compare. Parents interested in private schools have less information to examine, but there’s more than you might think. Here is a proposal to help make those data more user-friendly.
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Personalized Learning
Evidence on homeschoolers’ self-efficacy and self-regulated learning
Johns Hopkins University researchers have already conducted important research that describes why families choose homeschooling, revealing the
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Career & Technical Education
Don’t let academics slide in the push for career-technical education
Introductory economics teaches students to distinguish between complements and substitutes. Complements are interdependent goods: things like hot dogs and buns. Substitutes, on the other hand, are products that can replace each other, like coffee and tea.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 11.14.25
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/14/25—Roasting those old chestnuts
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Governance
Proponent testimony presented before the Ohio House Education Committee on HB 455—11/13/25
Note: Today, the Ohio House Education Committee heard testimony on House Bill 455 which, among other things, aims to eliminate outdated and irrelevant sections of state education law.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/12/25—Both and
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Career & Technical Education
Voters support career-connected learning
Recent nationwide poll results indicate that voters support maintaining and expanding career-connected learning opportunities like the ones Gov. DeWine has been prioritizing here in Ohio. Policymakers should keep this in mind going forward.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/10/25—Short and sweet
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 11.7.25
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Opportunity approaching on the horizon?
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/7/25—Your legacy
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/5/25—Embracing the competitive spirit
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Advanced Education
The Leaky Pipeline: Assessing the college outcomes of Ohio’s high-achieving low-income students
Our latest report sheds light on the academic trajectory of high-achieving, low-income (HALO) students in Ohio. They have demonstrated their potential to reach college and use it as a springboard to the American dream. Yet due to the widespread neglect of their talents, our education system allows too many of them to fall through the cracks.
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Governance, Teachers & School Leaders
Electoral reforms can help put Ohioans back in charge of school boards
November’s mid-term elections were a timely reminder about the pitfalls of holding school board elections on off-cycle years. Time for that to change here in Ohio.
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Accountability & Testing
A closer look at East Cleveland’s improvement on state report cards
Nearly twenty years ago, state leaders established Academic Distress Commissions (ADCs) as a way for the
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 11/3/25— A private school on the grow, you say? Tell me more…
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Charter Schools
Ohio school districts shouldn’t be allowed to declare students “impractical” to transport
The mundane but critical task of transporting students to school has stirred controversy over the past few years. Districts have chafed at their longstanding responsibility under state law to transport resident students who attend public charter and private schools, even though the state subsidizes their transportation.
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 10.31.25
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. Data show the “impractical” truth
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/31/25—Hey! That voiceover guy sounds like Darth Vader.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/29/25—Where in Ohio is Mike DeWine?
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Teachers & School Leaders
Three things Ohio should learn from Texas on teacher merit pay
If Ohio leaders want to bring teacher performance pay to the Buckeye State, they’ll have to address questions of fairness, effectiveness, and cost. And Texas’s established program can help provide the answers.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 10/27/25—The name of the game is consolidation
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 10.24.25
Stories featured in Ohio Charter News Weekly may require a paid subscription to read in full. The governor visits
