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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.22.19
Governor DeWine proposes increased charter school funding
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Commentary
Accountability & Testing
Ohio’s alternative graduation routes: The soft bigotry of low expectations rears its ugly head
Back in July 2017, the Ohio General Assembly passed legislation permitting students in the class of 2018 to graduate based on weak alternative pathways recommended by
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Curriculum & Instruction
The case for more flexibility in Ohio’s high school course requirements
One of the talking points in the never-ending debate over what Ohio students should have to achieve to graduate centers on personalization.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 3/20/19 – THIS is what you guys want to protect?
“Deterioration”? “Goosebumps”? Seriously, you guys?
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Accountability & Testing
Policymakers should listen to Ohio’s business community on graduation requirements
At their March meeting, the State Board of Education voted to send its proposal for a new set of high school graduation requirements to the Ohio General Assembly for consideration.
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School Finance
Tackling Ohio's toughest education challenges: Phase out the use of caps and guarantees
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we belie
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 3/18/19 – “Addition by subtraction”
As you may have heard, Governor DeWine released his first biennial budget on
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Teachers & School Leaders
A Fair Chance: Simple steps to strengthen and diversify the teacher workforce
Each year, teacher candidates across the nation take licensing exams designed to check their mastery of pedagogy and of content knowledge. Though each state selects its own licensing tests, the Praxis Elementary Education: Multiple Subjects assessment, created by the Education Testing Service (ETS), is the most widely used elementary content exam.
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Governance
Highlights from Governor DeWine’s K–12 education budget
On Friday, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine released his state budget proposals for fiscal years 2020–21. While we await the detailed policy language that will come when his budget is put into bill form in the General Assembly, his outline doesn’t offer much in the way of surprises.
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Governance
Fordham Institute media statement on release of Governor DeWine’s budget
Governor Mike DeWine unveiled his first biennial budget proposal today, including a number of important recommendations for K-12 education. “The governor’s budget proposal lives up to its billing,” said Chad L. Aldis, Vice President for Ohio Policy and Advocacy at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 3/15/19 – “The governor must not let the children of Youngstown become pawns in the political games in Columbus”
Well well well. Perhaps not everyone in Ohio has lost their minds.
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Accountability & Testing
ADCs aren't perfect, but they prove that accountability pressure works
In an article published on March 5, Bill Bush of the Columbus Dispatch wrote that Columbus City Schools plans to target key areas of their state report card where “modest gains
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 3/11/19 – I guess if your only tool is a multi-user spreadsheet and a raft of Ph.D.s…
In case you missed it last week, the USDOE touted a tax credit program propo
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Accountability & Testing
A sobering reality: A look at the districts where the highest percentage of students used alternative pathways to graduate
One of the defining characteristics of Ohio’s graduation debate is a lack of data.
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Advanced Education
Tackling Ohio’s toughest education challenges: Incentivize schools to help students earn high-value industry credentials
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we belie
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.8.19
Charter school leaders call for more money for charters
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Governance
Four things to look for in Governor DeWine’s education budget
Governor Mike DeWine is expected to release his biennial budget proposal next week, which will include his plan to fund education.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 3/6/19 – How many clips do you really need?
Just one clip today, but it feels pretty important somehow.
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Accountability & Testing, Standards, Teachers & School Leaders
Fulfilling the Readiness Promise: Twenty-Five Education policy ideas for Ohio
Creating smart, coherent education policy is painstaking work; there are technical, budgetary, and political challenges at almost every turn. But it is some of the most important work that state leaders can undertake.
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Teachers & School Leaders
Tackling Ohio’s toughest education challenges: Develop teacher residencies
Editor’s Note: Back in September 2018, awaiting the election of our next governor, we at the Fordham Institute began developing a set of policy proposals that we belie
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 3/4/19 – Parallels
This piece about a group of high-performing charter school
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 3.1.19
New paper on charter school facilities financing sources
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Accountability & Testing
How to improve Ohio’s academic distress commissions
Jeremy Kelley of the Dayton Daily News
Policy Brief
Charter Schools, Governance
Policy Brief: Ohio Community School Governance
A thorough overview of Ohio's charter/community school governance framework
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Accountability & Testing
Weakening graduation standards hurts students in the long run
In early February, Chalkbeat published an analysis of New York City’s graduation rate, which rose to nearly 76 percent in 2018—a 1.7 percent increas
