ODE Proceeding With Charter School Sponsor Evaluations

Ohio's largest online charter school operator has taken its dispute with the state over attendance records to the courts and the airwaves.

The state’s largest online charter school operator failed to turn over attendance data to the Ohio Department of Education yesterday as ordered by a judge, but a spokesperson says it will do so by the end of the week.

A Franklin County judge has ordered Ohio's largest online charter school operator to turn over attendance data to the Ohio Department of Education by 5 p.m. today. 

A member of the Ohio Board of Education has asked federal education officials to seek an independent audit of the Ohio Department of Education.  

Ohio schools superintendent Richard Ross has issued new guidelines for evaluating charter school sponsors in the wake of a data-tampering scandal in the state's school choice office.

Republican Ohio Govenor John Kasich has signed into law a charter school crackdown bill containing new performance, accountability and reporting requirements. 

Two Ohio Board of Education members who requested an independent investigation of the Ohio Department of Education's charter oversight office claim their proposal was improperly blocked.

Newly-released Ohio Department of Education records show data experts were puzzled by some requests from an ex-charter school director whose decision to omit certain failing grades from sponsor evaluations led to his resignation in July.

State schools superintendent Richard Ross has named a three-member panel to advise the Ohio Department of Education on evaluating charter school sponsors.

Ohio Auditor Dave Yost says he lacks jurisdiction and so won't investigate circumstances surrounding a former state official's decision to exclude failing grades from state charter school evaluations.   

An Ohio Department of Education official has resigned after acknowledging he excluded failing grades for charter schools in evaluations of the schools' overseers.

The Ohio Department of Education is retracting evaluations of charter school sponsors after discovering a pro-charter school  official excluded failing grades received by online schools from the reports.