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 [...]

This brochure explains four opportunities for middle and high schoolers to earn tuition-free college credit now: Advanced Placement, College Tech Prep, Early College, and Post Secondary Enrollment Options. To read the brochure, click here.

On April 23, KidsOhio.org hosted a briefing and forum on the new RAND research report on charter schools: Charter Schools in Eight States: Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Integration, and Competition. Over 90 leaders from across the state attended the event, including members of teachers unions, charter school advocacy groups, the Ohio General Assembly and the State Board of Education.

The RAND Corporation-a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization-recently released a report titled: Charter Schools in Eight States: Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Integration, and Competition. The report details the findings of a longitudinal study of charter schools in Chicago, San Diego, Philadelphia, Denver, Milwaukee, and the states of Texas, Florida, and Ohio. Out of the research came a number of key findings about Ohio charter schools and their students.