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The Dawn of Charter Schools,nd its political divisions, some of America’s most distinctive. These divisions turn out to be more complicated than big-city Democrats versus suburban and rural Republicans. Few other states have eight major cities. Known, in fact, as the Big 8, they marked Ohio politics throughout the twentieth ce

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Be Careful What You Wish For, unfettered charter programs. In a decade, the Buckeye State’s version of charter schooling ballooned from fifteen such schools to more than 330, with enrollments rising to more than eighty-five thousand youngsters—some 4 percent of all students. As the law was written, charters were largely confine

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Plunging Ahead,ngs and trepidations—that the foundation itself might have to become an authorizer. In October, we updated our board on the meager yield from the Ohio Charter School Sponsor Institute. Although it had attracted a handful of prospective sponsors, it had not generated any that inspired our confidence.

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The Rest of the Story,tic majority in the house. The 2008 elections had been good to their party in Ohio as well as nationally. Although the GOP retained a 21 to 12 majority in the senate, four of the five statewide offices were now in Democratic hands. The biennial budget proposed by the governor in early February 2009

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