Discussions around the release of Ohio’s annual state school report card paint a picture of how some district and schools officials are balking at accountability measures required by ESSA. Citing the cancellation of spring standardized testing, this year’s state report cards include only a fraction...
After recently receiving a one-year waiver from ESSA’s testing and accountability requirements, Ohio legislators “subsequently passed emergency legislation canceling the spring administration of Ohio’s state tests and waiving report card requirements other than reporting of some limited, available data.” Shortly thereafter, Governor Mike DeWine “announced...
In an op-ed for the Daily Jeff, Amy Kissinger discusses the need to increase federal funding for public schools in Ohio and nationwide. As part of the National School Board Association, Kissinger recently met with elected officials in Washington “to advocate for the more than...
WVXU.org reports that the Ohio State Board of Education members “will vote this week on whether to ask for a delay in the implementation of the final phase of the state’s A-F grading system,” because the “system has not been finalized.” This system will include...
Writing in the Columbus Dispatch, Ashland University President Carlos Campo says he is proud of the steps Ohio is taking to make sure high school graduates are college- and career-ready, including provisions in the state’s ESSA plan, in which he says education officials took the...
Ashton Marra reports that, even as Ohio education officials await feedback from the federal Department of Education on the state’s ESSA accountability plan, the CheckStatePlans.org review gives the plan “high marks.”
Jessica R. Towhey writes on Inside Sources that it may have been a good idea for Ohio to delay submission from April until September, because it gave the state “valuable time to continue working with the community,” as well as to “review plans from states...
Rev. Juan Rivera, executive board member of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, and lead pastor of New Life Church in Poland, Ohio, writes in the Columbus Dispatch about his objections to the state legislature’s attempt to “insert itself” into the state’s ESSA plan review...
Director of Curriculum and Instruction at Ohio’s Bay Village City Schools Char Shryock writes that the state’s ESSA plan is a great opportunity to improve education — but only if the state gets it right. She also notes that Ohio was smart to wait until...
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