Public Education Partners is a non-profit group of public education advocates from around Ohio. The PEP Board consists of parents, teachers, retired educators, school administrators, local BOE members, and more.
PEP is against the coordinated efforts of well-funded politicians to privatize our public schools. Traditional public schools have been hit with harmful education policies, like high-stakes testing, vouchers, unaccountable charter schools, and other mandates which compete for district resources already diminished by drastic budget cuts. All of these pieces in the “ed reform” agenda are part of a methodical plan to eventually dismantle our system of public schools and replace them with privatized schools.
Ohio’s school children are negatively affected by this privatization plan, so many public school advocacy groups have formed all over the state. Public Education Partners (PEP) was created as a nonprofit nonpartisan group that works to help connect and unite activists in this grassroots movement. Much of PEP’s activism is achieved through a very busy Facebook page that informs, engages, and connects advocates, https://www.facebook.com/Public-Education-Partners-647356845410265/, and empowers them to contact their elected leaders to make changes.
PEP has a yearly pro-public education summit, which provides opportunities for public education advocates from around Ohio to network with one another and to learn about Ohio education issues in breakout sessions presented by fellow activists.
The 2016 summit was fittingly named “PEP Rally for Public Education” to celebrate those who support Ohio public education and to deliver PEP Awards to Public Education Protectors, such as the following SEVENTY-FIVE Boards of Education that passed resolutions to invoice the state for charter school deductions and informed taxpayers about Ohio school funding inequities.
Woodridge (Summit County)
Logan-Hocking (Hocking County)
Troy (Miami County)
Elyria (Lorain County)
Parma (Cuyahoga County)
West Clermont (Clermont County)
Cardinal (Geauga County)
Keystone (Lorain County)
Northmont (Montgomery County)
Jackson (Stark County)
Streetsboro (Portage County)
Firelands (Lorain County)
Lake Local (Wood County)
Bowling Green (Wood County)
Belpre (Washington County)
LaBrae (Trumbull County)
Southington (Trumbull County)
Beaver Local (Columbiana County)
Northridge (Montgomery County)
Claymont (Tuscarawas County)
Southern Local (Perry County)
Indian Creek (Jefferson County)
Green Local (Summit County)
Garaway Local (Tuscarawas County)
Xenia (Greene County)
Noble Local Schools (Noble County)
Adena Local Schools (Ross County)
Gallipolis (Gallia County)
Oak Hills (Jackson County)
Monroe Local (Butler County)
Liberty Union -Thurston Local Schools (Fairfield County)
Tuscarawas Valley Schools (Tuscarawas County)
Amherst Schools (Lorain County)
Huron City Schools (Erie County)
Fairborn City Schools (Greene County)
Champion Local Schools (Trumbull County)
Washington Local Schools (Lucas County)
Euclid City Schools (Cuyahoga County)
Sheffield-Sheffield Lake City Schools (Lorain County)
Dayton City Schools (Montgomery County)
Bristol Local Schools (Trumbull County)
North Ridgeville Local Schools (Lorain County)
Brecksville-Broadview Heights City Schools (Cuyahoga County)
Fairbanks Local Schools (Union County)
Plain Local Schools (Stark County)
Wellston City Schools (Jackson County)
Vandalia Butler City Schools (Montgomery County)
Twinsburg City Schools (Summit County)
Morgan Local Schools (Morgan County)
Vinton County Local Schools (Vinton County)
Beavercreek City Schools (Greene County)
Westlake City Schools (Cuyahoga County)
Tallmadge City Schools (Summit County)
Zane Trace Local Schools (Ross County)
Springboro City Schools (Warren County)
Berea City Schools (Cuyahoga County)
Adena Local Schools (Ross County)
Mathews Local Schools (Trumbull County)
Paint Valley Local Schools (Ross County)
Northwestern Local School District (Wayne County)
Cleveland Heights-University Heights (Cuyahoga County)
Loudonville-Perrysville Exempted Village School District (Ashland County)
Oberlin City Schools (Lorain County)
Geneva Area City Schools (Ashtabula County)
Little Miami Local Schools (Warren County)
Olmsted Falls School District (Cuyahoga County)
Centerville City Schools (Montgomery and Greene Counties)
Crooksville Exempted Village School District (Perry County)
Black River Local Schools (Ashland, Lorain, & Medina Counties)
Southwest Licking Local Schools (Licking and Fairfield Counties)
Gahanna Jefferson Schools (Franklin County)
Nordonia Hills Schools (Summit County)
Coventry Local Schools (Summit County)
Reynoldsburg City Schools (Franklin County)
Marietta City Schools (Washington County)
Public Education Partners officially acknowledged each of these school districts as a Public Education Protector and presented them with the PEP Award.
If your local school board is in this elite group of SEVENTY-FIVE, please share this post with school board members and school district leaders.
Oh, and be sure to thank them for all they do to protect public education!
