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(ABC Photo Archives / ABC via Getty Images)Tom Corbett on The Courtship of Eddie's Father

Single fathers, a longtime trope of TV sitcoms, are now the reality for a growing number of kids’ homes.

According to a Pew Research Center analysis of census data, there are nine times as many single father households as of 2011 than there were in 1960. In comparison, the number of single mother households has increased more than fourfold. In 1960, about 14 percent of single parent homes were headed by fathers. Today, almost one in four are.

According to the report single fathers typically have less education and income than married dads. They are more likely than single mothers to be living with a cohabiting partner. However, they tend to have higher incomes than single mothers.

Overall, two-thirds of households with children are headed by two married parents.

You can see the full report at pewsocialtrends.org 

White Hat Management's Ohio charter schools in the midst of upheaval | cleveland.com

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By Edith Starzyk, The Plain Dealer 
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on July 06, 2013 at 4:00 PM, updated July 06, 2013 at 7:33 PM

CHARTER CHANGES

• Split of White Hat, charter school boards may cause confusion
• Policy Matters Ohio says White Hat state law on closing charter schools
• White Hat Management's Ohio charter schools in the midst of upheaval

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- David Brennan’s White Hat Management has been the most powerful and influential of Ohio’s charter school operators since state money started flowing to the privately run public schools 15 years ago.
In the last school year alone, the 31 schools it operates in Ohio used more than $67 million from taxpayers to educate more than 9,000 children.
But in May 2010, the Akron-based company founded by Brennan — an industrialist and major Republican contributor — was challenged in court by 10 of the school boards it had assembled in Cleveland and Akron. The case has dragged on since then and is now before the Ohio Supreme Court, despite rulings that White Hat must give the boards the financial