Public Education Partners is a non-profit group of public education advocates from around Ohio. The PEP Board consists of parents, teachers, retired educators, school administrators, local BOE members, and more. PEP is against the coordinated efforts of well-funded politicians to …
Dr. Laura Chapman, Ph.D., is a retired professor of art education and frequent contributor to Diane Ravitch’s blog. Dr. Chapman believes that education is not a business. It is a public service, a public responsibility, and civic virtue to the …
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. https://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: https://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 …