SB1 – The Senate Education Committee took opponent and interested party testimony on SB1 – the education reform bill which take control of ODE from the State Board of Education and…
Budget Updates – After a week of waiting, the budget bill has a number – HB33. The bill as introduced (still missing a number) can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ztgtqL33N5NaHDbYpZWB20GB3DXzc5Xu/view?usp=share_link. On Thursday, the…
A draft of the budget bill was released today. There has still been no number assigned to it. Once it is officially introduced, OAGC will provide a link. We are…
Blue Book Unveiled - As is tradition, Governor DeWine introduced many of his budget priorities in last week’s state of the state speech. For education, that means more funding heading toward…
New ODE Gifted Studies/Guidance Available – As part of SB310 in 2020, ODE was required to do a study on possible incentives for rural gifted services expansion. That study was…
Speaker Surprise – In a surprising move, the Ohio House voted Rep. Jason Stephens (R-Kitts Hill) to be the next Speaker of the Ohio House. Scott Oelslager was elected Speaker Pro Tempore. It…
To be honest, I had already written the first paragraph of this update yesterday – predicting that the Ohio House would indeed go along with SB178. But weird things happen…
12.7. 22 Update - The Ohio Senate Primary and Secondary Education Committee voted out SB178 on 12.6.22. Governor DeWine has indicated that he supports the bill. The question remains whether…
In 2018, during the Kasich administration, then-Representative Reineke introduced HB512, which would have consolidated several agencies, including the Ohio Department of Education, into one super-agency to be run from the…
ODE released the component information for the 2021-2022 school year. No overall grade was assigned. You can find a guide to reading the newly revamped report at https://education.ohio.gov/getattachment/Topics/Data/Report-Card-Resources/2022-Report-Card-Guide.pdf.aspx?lang=en-US. Here is the…
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