The state report cards in Ohio are a disaster. Not because of poor teaching, not because of poor administrators, not because of poor students, but because of poor test composition, poor expectations, poor measurement, poor supports, poor financing, and poor …
Ohio House Bill 481 was an otherwise innocuous bill that would extend the “safe harbor” for funding for those students whose parents opted them out of high-stakes state testing, among a few other things. In May of this year an amendment …
Ohio School district officials should determine how much has been deducted from their districts for ECOT and send an invoice directly to William Lager, the ECOT Man. Since ECOT can only account for student participation for 20% of the time …
1. The system is designed to only graduate those who are prepared for college. You will often hear the term “College and Career Ready” when it comes to the goals set for high school graduation. But there is only one …
A recent New York Times article by Motoko Rich, “Online School Enriches Affiliated Companies if Not Its Students,” ripped the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow’s (ECOT) financial enrichment on the backs of students. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/us/online-charter-schools-electronic-classroom-of-tomorrow.html ECOT has sucked $880,109,892.26 out of school districts …
Ohio taxpayers need to be protected from legislative enactments that favor charter schools. The schemes that are concocted in the charter industry to rip off taxpayers seem endless. Open fraud and corruption is regularly exposed via the media. But some …
The man who sat next to me on the plane ride home to Cleveland was from Raleigh, North Carolina, where the 2016 Network for Public Education Conference was held. Here are some highlights from this public education conference: http://www.schoolhouselive.org/ The …
The proposal to eliminate the right to elect the members of Ohio’s State School Board, and shift to an all-appointed board, was discussed at the Statehouse at the February, 2016, Public Education and Information Committee of the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission (OCMC.) Please consider …
This is a test with answers correctly marked. What are the intended or unintended consequences of high stakes testing as required by the federal laws, NCLB and ESSA, and the testing laws in most states? Punish teachers ● yes …
The framers of the 1851 Ohio Constitution, when mandating the state to secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools could have used the term “public” instead of “common.” Although the framers of the 1912 amendment (Article VI, §3) …