Jan Resseger

Heights Community Congress (HCC), founded in 1972, is Greater Cleveland, Ohio's oldest fair housing enforcement organization.  For over four decades HCC has been conducting audits of the real estate industry to expose and discourage racial steering and disparate treatment of … [Read more...] about Educational Redlining

Yesterday Ohio's elected, Republican-dominated supreme court ruled that a privately held, for-profit charter management company, White Hat Management, owns the equipment and assets of several White Hat Hope Academies and Life Skills Academies that had sought to sever ties with … [Read more...] about Ohio Supreme Court Rules Private Charter School Management Firm Owns Public Assets

Things unraveled pretty quickly last week for David Hansen, the director of school choice at the Ohio Department of Education.  On Tuesday, the State Board of Education, dominated by appointees of Republican Governor John Kasich, met and discussed why, as Ohio began to evaluate … [Read more...] about Ohio Regulator Favors Politically Connected Charter School Sponsors, Resigns When Exposed

The headline on Doug Livingston's piece in the Akron Beacon Journal, says it all: Ohio Lawmakers Scrap Elected School Boards and Union Contracts, Usher In Private Control After Barring Opposition Testimony. Livingston explains: "The bill began innocuously in the House as an … [Read more...] about Ohio Fast-Tracks Emergency Manager for Youngstown Schools and More Districts in Future

States like my own state of Ohio that assign letter grades (A-F) to schools and school districts base these rankings pretty much on the standardized test scores of the students.  Test scores---with high school graduation rates sometimes added to the algorithm that determines the … [Read more...] about New Illinois Analysis: Test Scores Correlate with School’s Economic Level, Not School’s Quality