Friday, August 21, 2015

Why the Delay in Rating Ohio Charter Sponsors?

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Recently, there has been much made of the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) rigging the state's charter school sponsor (authorizer in e...
Saturday, August 1, 2015

Price of Ohio House sitting on Charter Reform? Max Donation from Nation's Largest For-Profit School

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Just a few days after the Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives declined to take up House Bill 2 (HB 2) -- the most significant chart...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Ohio Charter School Sheriff Resigns. Now What?

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Lost amid the noise this weekend about David Hansen resigning his post as chief overseer of Ohio charter schools is this fact: Ohio no longe...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Ohio Charter School Sheriff All White Hat, No Cattle

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Well, that was quick. Less than a week after telling the State School Board that he had broken the law when he didn't count Fs for onlin...
Friday, July 17, 2015

New Ohio Charter School "Sheriff" Breaking the Law?

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In yet another black eye for Ohio's struggling charter school sector, it appears that the man who is supposed to oversee charter schools...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Federal Data: Ohio Charter Schools Widen Ohio's Already Too Wide Achievement Gap

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Recently, the White House put out a  report  outlining the country's student achievement gap, and the news wasn’t  great  for Ohio.  W...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

Kasich Education Record: From 5th to 18th

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In 2010, Ohio was riding high, from an education policy perspective. The state had just tightened its charter school closure standards and c...