School districts across Ohio are facing financial crises.  The Columbus Dispatch’s Cole Behrens reports: “More than 120 Ohio public school districts are projecting negative cash balance…

Here is this morning’s post with new analysis added today from the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s data wonk, Rich Exner, on the meaning of Ohio’s 2026 School Report Cards. Please do rea…

Here is this morning’s post with new analysis added today from the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s data wonk, Rich Exner, on the meaning of Ohio’s 2026 School Report Cards. Please do rea…

Pass the word folks. The Ohio legislature is in recess.  Whew. That’s got to be good news. Maybe this entity hell-bent on wrecking public education can use the recess time for some needed reflection a...

Earlier this week, the Ohio Department of Education and the Workforce (Ohio DEW) released state report cards for each Ohio school district and every one of the state’s traditional public scho…

Five cases, four mechanisms, one ranking: this post lines up the biggest fraud prosecutions, the biggest company-store combination, and the biggest sweeps contract in the charter sector’s his…

A man with a vision set out to revolutionize preschool. It became a $440 million fiasco.

What parents prize in their children’s public schools—small enough classes so that teachers can connect with each child, music programs, high school science labs and advanced math class…

After losing its effort to restrict birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, the Trump Administration is seeking to restrict passports to children and to make them citizenship permission slips.

Senate Bill 1 requires all syllabi for undergraduate classes to be public. Ohio universities have partnered with the service, Simple Syllabus.

What parents prize in their children’s public schools—small enough classes so that teachers can connect with each child, music programs, high school science labs and advanced math class…

We've heard many welcome tributes to Dolly Parton and her great role as the Book Lady. As most know, one of Dolly Parton's many contributions and her passion was Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Fo...

We've heard many welcome tributes to Dolly Parton and her great role as the Book Lady. As most know, one of Dolly Parton's many contributions and her passion was Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Fo...

She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.

I am a National Board Certified Teacher. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) influenced a big chunk of my professional life and practice, and I remain—pretty much—a fan. …

More than a dozen people recently protested outside Ohio Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Carey’s Columbus office as part of Popular Democracy’s national “Care Over Cruelty” August Recess Month of Action.

Aug. 19 marks the beginning of the 2026–27 school year for about 4,600 students enrolled in one of the 11 public schools or two special high-school programs of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights...

The Board of Directors, CMO, and I are currently operating from the Maine field office, an annual adventure completre with woods, water, a little ocean, and other rebalancing team building exercises d...

Our recent report asks a bold question: What would the United States look like if we tripled union membership? We find a range of economic and social benefits—such as higher wages, greater access to h...

Voucher and charter school programs are taking funds that could make our public schools stronger.

There is massive evidence of a public school funding crisis across Ohio.  The Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati public school districts, along with many other districts across the state, have alr…

Email from Ohio E & A Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email   Allen County ESC Superintendent Craig Kupferberg responds to the Coalition blog statement of July 13. Superintendent Kupferbe

The evidence is all around us, but you have to connect dots and see the full picture.

As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter

Federal courts are overturning bans that tell college professors what they are not allowed to teach. And more campuses are taking a stand. At the Texas Tech University system, the American Associat…

Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education, was the author of the recent report Public Schooling in America: Our 2026 Report Card on the States. The subtitle: THE BEST AND…

Getting buy-in to do that could be difficult, but UConn’s Preston Green warns that private school students might not have the same constitutional protection ...