For years, feds & states have churned through expensive education reform & research to no avail. Larry Ferlazzo⁩ offers a radically simple experiment: give a group of teachers $10,000 each to spend on students anyway they deem fit & see what happens. edweek.org/teaching-learn…

Six candidates for Ohio Supreme Court will be on the November ballot in three different races. The outcomes will decide the balance of the court and have major impacts on a wide variety of issues. By Megan Henry ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/09/05/mee…

The Privateers is covered in this great new column Lexington Herald-Leader Linda Blackford on the national right-wing billionaires trying to force school vouchers into the states. Their schemes hurt kids’ academic outcomes, so they went hard into culture warring instead.

Dr. Axner welcomes our Superintendents and BASA partners to the BASA September Regional meeting at BASA today.

Had the opportunity to talk to a financial reporter from EdWeek yesterday. He called about vouchers and the financial impact. Here are some of the facts that I told him:

One party has a stranglehold on power so there are really no checks and balances. They live in an echo chamber and do whatever they want.

-The state gives OF $3,600/student but sends up to $8500 to a private school that takes a voucher. The average voucher value is $6,036 which means the state is giving more to private school choice compared to a public school like OF

-Under expansion, OF vouchers went from 9 to 260 in 1 year and we didn’t lose enrollment. -the state gives us about $12.6 million in funding. If they gave us the average voucher value we’d get $21+ million and would rely less on local property taxes.

-the “money doesn’t follow the kid”. Joe Public is paying for kids to attend a private religious school through tax state tax dollars and I’m forced to increase his taxes bc the state won’t pay their fair share. Why?

Because they’re too busy creating subsystems rather than fulfilling their OH Constitutional duty to fund public schools. #vouchershurtohio

David Lee Finkle, creator of the comic strip Mr. Fritz, writes about the Love of Teaching being Under Attack. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/d…

Thank you CCCTC for joining Vouchers Hurt Ohio!

When church and state become cozy, the church loses.: conta.cc/4cXeuJj

CURMUDGUCATION: Are Grade Level Texts The Magical Cure? (The Ghost of Common Core) curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2024/09/are-gr…

The Wisdom of Arne Duncan (Not) dianeravitch.net/2024/09/05/the… via @dianeravitch

How Project 2025’s education policies mirror Ohio bills and universal private school vouchers ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/08/29/how… via Ohio Capital Journal

David Lee Finkle: Love of Teaching is Under Attack networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/d…

Mt. Healthy Schools returning to class Friday after threat found not credible. wlwt.com/article/mount-…

Reducing Chronic Absenteeism: Lessons from Community Schools learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/chroni…

Let's start with a mostly fragile premise: College faculty skews left, especially left of the broader US, and that is some sort of danger to students and the US itself What is missing in this long-time conservative claim? A thread 1/