Titlebook: Ohio‘s Education Reform Challenges; Lessons from the Fro Chester E. Finn,Terry Ryan,Michael B. Lafferty Book 2010 Palgrave Macmillan, a div

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2945-7572 including that of an actual authorizer of charter schools. They write from wide experience on the ground as well as extensive research and nationally-respected policy expertise.978-0-230-10697-0978-0-230-10972-8Series ISSN 2945-7572 Series E-ISSN 2945-7580

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Plunging Ahead,r opinion that we shouldn’t add sponsorship to everything else we’re trying to do in Dayton, except as a last case scenario. We’d rather offer multiple-levels of support if a quality sponsor emerges in Dayton. If none does, we may yet have to revisit this matter with you on an urgent basis.”.

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2945-7572 y participant in this debate since day one, both nationally and in Ohio. Despite President Obama‘s call for states to strengthen the charter sector and widen the options it provides to needy youngsters, established interests in education and politics oppose this disruption of the status quo. Ohio ha

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,Dayton’s Decline,the hands of entrepreneurs, inventors, and businessmen. Tocqueville understood this spirit when he described Americans as being less interested in high-minded philosophy than in simply getting the job done. They want to grow it, make it better, and sell it for less than anyone else, he observed. Dayton typified this approach.

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The Rest of the Story,y in the senate, four of the five statewide offices were now in Democratic hands. The biennial budget proposed by the governor in early February 2009 would have nailed shut the coffin for Ohio’s charter school program. We summarized that threat for the . in these words:

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Hard Lessons,we would not deny that it’s encouraging and stimulating to work out, in the world of theory, just which reform elements need to be melded with which other elements in which ways, and to explain how, when all these are perfectly lined up, like chessmen on a grand master’s board, one’s victory over ignorance is all but assured.

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Be Careful What You Wish For,d to urban Ohio—also home to many of the neediest youngsters—and in some communities it had a profound impact. Dayton, for example, went from a single charter school (with sixty-five pupils) in 1998 to thirty-four (and about 6,500 students) a decade later.

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