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Ohio’s Poorest School Districts Need Support Instead of Punitive HB 70 State Takeover

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Ohio is in the midst of a big fight about the state takeover of its lowest scoring school districts.  If a school district gets an “F” grade for three years running on the state’s school district report card, the state takes over the district under House Bill 70 and appoints an Academic Distress Commission, which […]

Schools Serving Very Poor Children Need Financial Assistance. Instead Ohio Beats Them Up.

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Ohio operates a test-and-punish accountability scheme that ranks and rates schools and school districts, and punishes school districts whose scores are low.  All the while, the state has diminished its effort to support public education and equalize funding. In mid-September, for example, the state released school report cards awarding schools and school districts letter grades—“A” […]