Learning Curve

After a year of online learning, many students and families are all too happy to ditch the laptops for a summer break and fully return to school in person next year, in whatever form that takes. But for some multinational families, online schooling offered a unique opportunity to take learning on the road and be with loved ones abroad.

Families of students with disabilities share their experiences on remote education during the pandemic.

Ohio legislators are trying to pass major reforms to the state’s school funding model, a model that the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional four times. If House Bill 1 – known as the Fair School Funding Plan – passes, many of the changes would have Ohio following in the footsteps of states already touted for their education funding models, including New Jersey and Wyoming.

Preschool got walloped in the pandemic, and kids disappeared from classrooms. The loss was greatest in communities of color and poverty, but coming out of the shutdown, efforts are underway to recover and, perhaps, grow preschool post-pandemic.

State lawmakers had hoped to cancel this year's testing. Now they've got to figure out how to use the results.

Some parents in Ashtabula County say their kids have fallen behind during remote learning because they lack adequate internet access at home.

Remote learning, hybrid schedules, and socially distanced classrooms have forced teachers to adapt to a radically new version of schooling.

A new proposal in the Statehouse could overhaul Ohio's school funding formula, which has been deemed unconstitutional multiple times. We look at the history of the problem as we begin exploring K-12 education in Ohio in our series Learning Curve.