State Education Policy
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Raising Rigor, Getting Results: Lessons Learned from AP Expansion, by NGA Center for Best Practices »
The National Governors’ Association Center for Best Practices recently released the report, Raising Rigor, Getting Results: Lessons Learned from AP Expansion.
To read the full report, follow this link: http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/0908APREPORT.PDF
Education Commission of the States’ International Benchmarking Toolkit »
Education Commission of the States (ECS) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that informs decision-making by synthesizing state-level data from across the nation. To review ECS’s newly released International Benchmarking Toolkit, click here: http://www.ecs.org/IB/IBtoolkit3-26-09.pdf
The Ohio Department of Education provides simulation of the state’s new school funding system »
The Ohio Department of Education recently created funding simulations for school years 2010 and 2011 based on the state’s new school funding system. For more information and to view these simulations, please click here: http://education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=72449.
Families are scrambling after Ohio day-care cuts »
Toledo Blade
Article published August 4, 2009
Families are scrambling after Ohio day-care cuts
Some children are expected to be ‘out of luck’
By NEENA SATIJA
BLADE STAFF WRITER
Day-care centers across the state had been gearing up for a funding cut, but almost none expected what the new Ohio budget gave them two weeks ago.
The devastating cuts included eliminating the [...]
How do I find out how Ohio’s state budget bill has evolved from the Governor’s edition to now? »
The Ohio Legislative Service Commission (LSC) provides a wide array of regularly updated fiscal data throughout Ohio’s state budget processes. To view LSC’s full collection of budget data, visit: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/budgetdocuments.html
To find out how the state budget language regarding Ohio’s schools has evolved, click on the following link: http://www.lbo.state.oh.us/fiscal/budget/CompareDoc128/AsEnacted/EDU.pdf. The last column reveals the most recent version [...]
