Buckeye Institute Releases Ohio's Contract for the Future
COLUMBUS - The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions today released "Ohio's Contract for the Future: Teacher Union Collective Bargaining Reform in Dayton and Columbus" by Dr. Gary Roberts and Marc Kilmer. In this study, the authors provide recommendations for how to improve accountability...
Buckeye Institute Study Chronicles the High Cost of High School Dropouts
COLUMBUS - The Buckeye Institute today released a study chronicling the negative impact high school dropouts have on government services and social welfare programs. Report author Matthew Carr found that individual consequences of not completing high school result in increased...
Buckeye Institute Critiques Board of Regents Plan; Examines Higher Education Vouchers
COLUMBUS - The Buckeye Institute today released two studies regarding the state's higher education system. Both studies address the ongoing debate over higher education accessibility, cost and accountability. One study specifically focuses on recommendations made in the Ohio Board of...
Parental Choice and High Quality Education Can Go Together
COLUMBUS - Adoption of a student-centered school funding system will ensure all children across Ohio have the same educational opportunities, according to a report issued today by the Buckeye Institute. Such a system will make the differences in local resources for education funding...
Public Charter Schools Help Students and Save Tax Dollars
Columbus - The Buckeye Institute today released a study showing public charter schools provide a great value to Ohio's K-12 education system. Report co-authors Matthew Carr and Beth Lear found closing existing public charter schools will result in reduced per pupil spending levels in each...
Report: Teacher Merit Pay Needed
COLUMBUS - Introducing merit pay programs into Ohio's existing teacher compensation system will help recruit exceptional new teachers, retain successful teachers, and improve the overall quality of public education, according to a new report released by the Buckeye Institute, a Columbus-based free-market think tank.
Lessons for Improving Ohio's EdChoice Voucher Program
For Immediate Release --- July 14, 2006 Contact: Michael Hamilton (614)...
COLUMBUS, Ohio. --- ....This report compares the application process of the Milwaukee program, considered to be among the most parent-friendly in the nation, with the Cleveland program, which has a notoriously difficult process. The lessons gleaned from the successes and failures of these two programs provide several recommendations for how the EdChoice voucher program can be improved....
The Buckeye Institute Releases New Policy Brief: The Financial Impact of Ohio's Charter Schools
By Matthew Carr, posted July 6, 2006
COLUMBUS, Ohio. --- ....This brief fiscal analysis of charter schools shows that, because of the nature of Ohio’s school funding system, charter schools are actually creating increased per pupil revenues for the urban areas they are most likely to be located in. Also, the fiscal data shows that charter schools, on average, operate at a lower cost than their urban counterparts, thus relieving stress on the state budget....
School Choice Can Help Revitalize Ohio's Inner-Cities
(COLUMBUS) - The Buckeye Institute today released Education Empowerment Zones: Revitalizing Ohio's Cities through School Choice, a proposal to use school choice to help bring middle income families back into Ohio’s inner-cities. The proposal would establish "education empowerment zones"...
