How Many Angels?
Americans are in love with numbers. The Common Core came with high stakes testing. The concept of the common core is as old as systems of education. Can we agree on what a person needs to know, master, understand to …
Public Education Partners
Investigate ODE Corruption!
A major Ohio newspaper published a tendentious article about ProgressOhio, one of the many organizations that are dissatisfied with Franklin County’s discrepancy in prosecuting people involved in the Columbus Public Schools data-scrubbing scandal and not even investigating education officials in the Ohio Department of Education …
Do Opt-Outs “Game the System?”
A recent story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer posed the question of whether the state of Ohio should penalize schools for students who opt-out or let them “game the system.” http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/01/penalize_schools_for_test_opt-outs_or_let_them_game_the_system_bill_would_lift_penalties.html Marti Franks, a retired teacher and board member of Public Education …
Join the Revolution, & Pass a Resolution!
Public education advocacy groups work hard to organize and motivate regular citizens to talk to legislators about the damage that the current corporate ed-reform agenda has caused, but it seems that many school boards don’t see the importance of speaking up …
Do YOU Really Know Your Charter?
Ohio taxpayers are mortified by the glut of recent charter school scandals reported in the news. One story revealed that no sector misspends tax dollars more than charter schools in Ohio. Others informed citizens of ethics charges, inappropriate spending practices, and even criminal …
Send Your Resolutions to USDOE
In September, Arne Duncan and the USDOE awarded the Ohio Department of Education a $71 million grant to expand its scandal-ridden charter school program, but public outcry convinced the US Department of Education to think twice and add some stipulations before any money would be released. …
Survival of the Common Public School System
If you are interested in a presentation laced in political correctness or one that will curry political favor with the inside-the-I-270-Beltway crowd, you will be disappointed in this one. I have no interest in tip-toeing around a discussion of the …
What a SMART ALEC!
Judging by the breakneck speed at which Ohio’s school takeover law, HB 70, passed last summer, it’s clear that the corporate education reform movement is alive and well in Ohio. http://www.ohio.com/news/break-news/ohio-lawmakers-scrap-elected-school-boards-and-union-contracts-usher-in-private-control-after-barring-opposition-testimony-1.603233 In an excerpt from her book, “Reign of Error,” Diane Ravitch reveals …
Grassroots Advocacy Groups for Public Ed
Want to help support public education? Get involved by learning about the challenges facing public education and advocating for strong public schools for our children. http://www.networkforpubliceducation.org/ Public Education Partners is an organization dedicated to the support of publicly accountable Ohio schools for …
If You Build It, They Will Come
Public Education Partners (PEP) presented a long awaited education conference focused on what’s happening in public education in Ohio. It was appropriately called PUBLIC EDUCATION MATTERS, because to most Ohioans, it really does. SO… what is happening in public education in Ohio? …