Ohio's release last Friday of school district report cards that rate schools and school districts and assign letter grades for a range of calculations that remain incomprehensible to the general public has set me to thinking about opportunity. The grades, after all, purport to … [Read more...] about Ohio’s School District Letter Grades Tell Us Little about Real Opportunity
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Ohio Punishes Poor School Districts with Low Rankings without Providing Needed Funds
Last week the Ohio Education Policy Institute, in research funded by the Ohio School Boards Association, the Buckeye Association of School Administrators and the Ohio Association of School Business Officials, once again documented that school districts serving a large number and … [Read more...] about Ohio Punishes Poor School Districts with Low Rankings without Providing Needed Funds
Economy Grows But State Funding for Public Schools Continues to Shrink
Here is what Wikipedia says about Grover Norquist: "Grover Glenn Norquist... is an American political advocate who is founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes all tax increases.... A Republican, he is the primary promoter of the "Taxpayer … [Read more...] about Economy Grows But State Funding for Public Schools Continues to Shrink
Plunderbund Releases More E-mails Confirming Kasich-Ross Role in Youngstown Plan
Ohio's Plunderbund blog continues to investigate the active involvement of Governor John Kasich and his staff along with the direct involvement of State Superintendent Richard Ross in the nine month negotiations for the state takeover of the Youngstown schools and in the future … [Read more...] about Plunderbund Releases More E-mails Confirming Kasich-Ross Role in Youngstown Plan
Ohio Researcher Proves–Yet Again–That Test Scores Measure Primarily Family Income
Like the rest the country, Ohio is trapped in a test-and-punish education accountability system that castigates public schools when students' test scores are persistently low. It is a system that punishes already vulnerable institutions---closing and charterizing schools in the … [Read more...] about Ohio Researcher Proves–Yet Again–That Test Scores Measure Primarily Family Income
