More Days of Action against School Takeovers July 1-17, 2019 The Ohio House overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill, House Bill 154, to repeal the school takeover law (HB 70), and its language was added to the House’s two-year budget. Instead …
Research and analysis of successful school reform efforts have pointed to several supports that are consistently associated with stronger student outcomes than state takeovers of public school districts. These include access to high quality early childhood and pre-K programs, a …
An Ohio political party issued a powerful statement against school privatization by unanimously passing this resolution at its Executive Committee meeting. Diane Ravitch published this important story of the Ohio Democratic Party’s support for public education and encouraged every political …
Youngstown, Lorain, and East Cleveland are high-poverty school districts that are under state control in Ohio due to low performance on the state report card. Dayton schools could be next at the end of this school year. Columbus, Ashtabula, …
“The Youngstown Plan.” Sounds very positive, doesn’t it? Academic distress commission. Opportunity school district. School turnaround. When the state takes over a school district, it may sound really promising, but it’s not. Simply put, a state takeover is part of …
School districts in economically-distressed areas generally have low grades on the state report card; conversely, school districts in affluent areas have high grades. One could travel through a county or region of Ohio and predict the report card grade of …
In a recent column entitled “State Reins in the “Wild West of Charter Schools” that was published in the Columbus Dispatch, Greg Richmond, who heads the Chicago-based National Association of Charter School Authorizers, stated that “Nothing inspires change quite like a good quote.” …
Ohio Kids ROCKED the Statehouse during Public Education Partners’ annual CELEBRATE PUBLIC EDUCATION ceremony on January 24th in honor of Public Education Week in Ohio. Mighty marching band performances, dance, music, songs, poetry, art, sign language and video broadcasting projects …
Public school districts in the Buckeye state are open to all children, paid for by our taxes, and governed by democratically chosen school boards. They are considered a public good and the pillar of our democracy. Our public schools are welcoming …
“CELEBRATE PUBLIC EDUCATION” Ceremony When: January 24rd, 11:00am – 12:30pm Where: The Ohio Statehouse Atrium COLUMBUS – It’s time to “Celebrate Public Education!” Ohio public school districts serve more than 1.8 million students and employ more than 245,000 Ohioans as …