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The Role Of Expenditures In Predicting Adequate Yearly Progress For Special Needs Students In Ohio, Korrin M. Ziswiler, Barbara M. De Luca, Luke J. Stedrak Jul 2013

The Role Of Expenditures In Predicting Adequate Yearly Progress For Special Needs Students In Ohio, Korrin M. Ziswiler, Barbara M. De Luca, Luke J. Stedrak

Educational Considerations

Although there exists a large body of research concerning the relationship between expenditure and student achievement, a lack of research exists analyzing this relationship as it pertains specifically to students with disabilities.


Predicting Student Achievement In Ohio: The Role Of Expenditure Distribution, Barbara M. De Luca, Steven A. Hinshaw Jul 2013

Predicting Student Achievement In Ohio: The Role Of Expenditure Distribution, Barbara M. De Luca, Steven A. Hinshaw

Educational Considerations

In the spring of 2005, political columnist George Will coined the phrase the “65 percent solution” in his Washington Post column in reference to an Arizona referendum that would have required at least 65% of every school district’s operational budget be spent on classroom instruction.


Ohio's At-Risk Student Population: A Decade Of Rising Risk, Randall S. Vesely Mar 2013

Ohio's At-Risk Student Population: A Decade Of Rising Risk, Randall S. Vesely

Educational Considerations

Educators face increasing demands to raise student achievement, to improve classroom instruction, and to demonstrate accountability in an environment of high stakes testing. However, meeting these demands is challenging in the face of numerous risk factors that jeopardize the academic success of elementary and secondary students.


A Tale Of Two Fiscal Policies: Entrepreneurial And Entropic, Scott R. Sweetland Apr 2012

A Tale Of Two Fiscal Policies: Entrepreneurial And Entropic, Scott R. Sweetland

Educational Considerations

Ohio’s school finance history can be characterized as progressive. Early state funding for school libraries was apportioned from state property tax receipts and distributed to local schools on a per-pupil basis. When equalization funding was invented to help poorer school systems, Ohio adopted that model of funding.


A Partnership Plan To Support High-Quality Instruction In Ohio’S Urban School Districts, Ben Mcgee Jan 2010

A Partnership Plan To Support High-Quality Instruction In Ohio’S Urban School Districts, Ben Mcgee

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

Establishing work practices that allow for effective communication, collaboration, and negotiations between state departments of education (DOEs) and their large urban districts is a significant undertaking in the national reform effort. The Ohio Department of Education (ODE) has had a unique opportunity to investigate how to establish an effective framework to build the necessary relationships between large urban districts and the supervising state educational agency (SEA) through funds provided by a Wallace Foundation grant and Harvard University’s leadership facilitation. The Wallace funding and partnership with Harvard provided four of Ohio’s largest urban school districts with the resources and expertise to …