Friday, October 9, 2015

A Great Day for Ohio's Kids

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A little more than two years ago, I listened to a presentation in the bowels of the Ohio Statehouse. It was being given by a school funding ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Bizarro World: Ohio Wins Big USDOE Award for Charter School Oversight.

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Every once in a while, I'm gobstopped. Really and truly. Yesterday was one of those times. That's when I found out that Ohio had rec...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

How Contracts Trump Good Public Policy

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Yesterday, I wrote about the recent Ohio Supreme Court ruling that found that White Hat Management can profit from failing kids. While I spe...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Ohio Supreme Court Justices Take Money from White Hat, Lets them Profit from Failure

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Today, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that White Hat Management -- the state's worst performing large-scale charter school operator -- ge...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Debate Over. Local Taxpayers Subsidize Charters. Now What?

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What a difference a week makes. And what a difference good reporting can make. Two weeks ago, I joined with Woodridge Local Schools offici...
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...