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Now is “primetime” for high school students who want to earn college credit for free during their high school career. The application window is open now and closes as early as March 31. Today, KidsOhio and School Choice Ohio jointly released a guide for parents and students, Get a Jumpstart on College & Your Career: [...]

Many parents of Columbus elementary school children in the low-income Weinland Park neighborhood research schools and send their children to district schools with better performance records. Yet, low-income, modestly-educated single parents in the same area are more likely to enroll their child in their assigned neighborhood school even when it performs poorly. Families that stayed at [...]

Through a three-part series, KidsOhio reports on the increase in student need among Franklin County school districts: The report, More Franklin County students are economically disadvantaged; many attend suburban schools, provides a brief overview of the increase in student poverty among the 16 Franklin County school districts since 2005. KidsOhio asked the superintendents of Reynoldsburg and Worthington schools to [...]

Want a snapshot of Ohio’s new Executive and Legislative branches?  Click here to compare Ohio’s current and elected policymakers through the lens of education policy.