New Buckeye Institute Report Offers #StudentsFirst Reforms to Help Regain Lost Learning

New Buckeye Institute Report Offers #StudentsFirst Reforms to Help Regain Lost Learning

In a new policy report, #StudentsFirst: Empowering Parents to Help Students Regain Lost Learning, Buckeye’s Greg Lawson outlines how empowering parents, funding students first, and enhancing school choice can counteract the ill effects the pandemic had on learning loss for Ohio’s K-12 students. The report offers four commonsense policy solutions that will improve the K-12…

A Fine Line

How Most American Kids Are Kept Out of the Best Public Schools Historically, children have been assigned to public schools based on their home address. For some students, this works out fine. But for many others, geographic assignment locks them into schools that don’t meet their needs. What can be done to break the link…

Ohio PTA Parent Academy

The Ohio Parent Teacher Association (PTA) invites parents, caregivers, and family members to learn how schools are using whole child approaches to education at the next Parent Academy session on Wednesday, April 28 at 7 p.m. Ohio Department of Education team members from the Office of Integrated Student Supports will present a session titled, “What…

SB 89 Changes EdChoice Scholarship

SB 89 Changes EdChoice Scholarship

The passage of Senate Bill 89 in November 2020 made several key changes to the EdChoice Scholarship Programs. Changes impact both the income-based (expansion) EdChoice and the traditional EdChoice Programs. Effective with scholarships awarded for the 2021-22 school year, the income eligibility level for the income-based EdChoice program increases from 200% of the federal poverty…

District Open Enrollment

District Open Enrollment

Did you know that in many parts of Ohio, students can attend a school district other than the district where they live? This option is tuition-free and referred to as open enrollment. Last year, more than 90,000 students participated in open enrollment. Districts can decline to participate in open enrollment. Typically, about 100 districts, primarily…

It’s All About Opportunity

It’s All About Opportunity

If you believe every child deserves the opportunity to have an educational setting that works best for them, you’re likely looking forward to January to celebrate National School Choice Week Jan. 26 – Feb. 1, 2020. Whether you’re a school, a home schooling family or just an organization interested in raising awareness and support for…