This morning the NAEP Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) results for Mathematics and Reading were released. The TUDA results look specifically at 21 large urban school districts that volunteered to have their NAEP scores reported separately (three of which participated for the first time; see the complete rundown of cities...
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White Hat Management, a major for-profit charter school operator, is fighting for its life. At least that’s the story told in a recent memo by founder David Brennan. Brennan told employees of White Hat that his family has committed over $50 million to sustaining White Hat, but that they simply...
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Ohio currently has a basket full of publicly funded, private-school voucher programs, making it unique in America’s school choice landscape. Ohio has three separate programs for students in failing districts, students with autism, and students living in Cleveland. A voucher program for students with disabilities launches next year. Further, the...
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Earlier this week The Thomas B. Fordham Institute along with the Nord Family Foundation, Ohio Grantmakers Forum, the ESC of Central Ohio, Ohio Education Matters, and Public Performance Partners presented Working Smarter Together: Enhancing savings and performance for local schools and governments. The event featured several keynote speakers (including Auditor...
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The Columbus Dispatch ran competing op-eds by School Choice Ohio’s (SCO) Chad Aldis and Fordham’s Terry Ryan on the expansion of vouchers in the Buckeye State. Both Aldis and Ryan support the expansion of school choice programs in Ohio, but how the state should hold these new programs accountable for...
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Last week the U.S. Department of Education awarded grants totaling $25 million to charter school management organizations that have been successful at raising student achievement in extremely difficult conditions. Among the winners included Cleveland’s Breakthrough Charter School Network, a successful network of schools in the Cleveland area.
This week the U.S. Department of...
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This week the U.S. Department of Education awarded grants totaling $25 million to charter school networks that have been extremely successful in raising student achievement. The grants went to nine different charter networks across the country, all of which serve mostly low-income students. Arne Duncan made it clear why these...
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For the last two weeks we’ve been doing various analyses of school performance in Ohio’s Big 8 district schools and charter schools. Today we dive in a little deeper and look at what happened to low- and high- performing schools over time. Ohio’s reporting system makes it possible to look...
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This week we took a look at what impact, if any, charter authorizer type (e.g., non-profit, educational service center, school district, or university) has on a school’s academic performance, how high poverty urban schools perform, and why one Buckeye State charter school authorizer deserve to lose its right to sponsor...
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