Carolyn / Flickr Ohio Public Radio’s Karen Kasler reports that state lawmakers are spending this week working through changes to a new school funding plan behind closed doors: House Speaker Bill Batchelder, who leads a super-majority caucus of 60 Republicans, says he plans to spend a lot of spring break looking into the formula, which he [...]
Ten years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court decided it was ok to use public money to subsidize private, religious school tuition. The court’s ruling in the Zelman v. Simmons-Harris case concerned Ohio’s first school voucher program, the Cleveland Scholarship Program. The ruling was “the most important ruling on religion and the schools in the 40 years [...]
Tonx / Flickr One of the key education stories of 2012 has come to a head this week. At issue: Should Ohio be able to close down low-performing charter schools that serve students who have dropped out of traditional public schools? Those schools are called drop-out recovery charter schools and there are about 79 of them [...]
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and House Speaker Bill Batchelder told homeschooling advocates they see little need to change state laws regulating homeschooling in response to the death of a 14-year old Dayton girl who was homeschooled and starved to death in her home, the Home School Legal Defense Association says. (H/t to Innovation Ohio’s Stephen [...]
In a move that surprised just about no one, We Are Ohio, the group campaigning to repeal Senate Bill 5, turned down an invitation from Gov. John Kasich and GOP legislative leaders to compromise on the collective bargaining law now the subject on an intense repeal campaign. SB 5 limits collective bargaining for public employee [...]
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