Ohio’s gerrymandered legislative majority has been captured by special interests robbing taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars. School privatizers are diverting hundreds of millions of dollars from public schools to private/parochial schools. Special interest groups are creating legislation, and …
In January of 2025, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law that requires each school district to create a mandatory religious instruction release time policy. According to Ohio Capital Journal reporter Megan Henry, this law strengthened Ohio’s existing …
From retired NEO teacher Marti Franks: As education employees, we know that a plan is important. Whether it is a lesson plan, bus route, lunch menu, or schedule, we need to know where we are going so we will know …
For years, public school districts have been the neighborhood center of most communities in the United States. Children from different backgrounds have been educated side by side, and parents have come together in a nonpartisan manner to support their kids’ …
The Network for Public Education’s NPE/NPE Action Conference, Public Schools: Where Democracy Grows, was held in Washington, D.C. on October 28-29, 2023. This 10th anniversary conference was attended by over 400 passionate defenders of public education from around the country. …
WHEREAS, in 1953, Ohioans voted to remove the Ohio Department of Education from the Governor, because it had become too political, and made the State Board of Education of Ohio a fourth branch of government; and WHEREAS, in 2022, thousands …
Where do Ohio’s children receive their education? by Susie Kaeser, Education Specialist for the League of Women Voters of Ohio Education is fundamental in our democracy. Every state constitution has a provision for that state to operate and fund a …
Public Education Partners is strongly opposed to Ohio House Bill 103. HB 103 seeks to replace curriculum created in Ohio, for Ohio’s schools and students, with so-called American Birthright social studies standards created by out-of-state interests to indoctrinate children with …
This is the Statehouse that GREED bought. These are the extremists Who reign in the Statehouse that GREED bought. This is ALEC That empowers the extremists Who reign in the Statehouse that GREED bought. These are the lobbyists Who represent …
Did you know that the Ohio House Finance Committee is hearing testimony on Ohio HB 33, the budget bill, and that the budget will house the much needed phase-in of Ohio’s Fair School Funding Plan? In the previous budget, Ohio …
Money from the state Lottery represents just a small percent of Ohio’s spending on primary and secondary public education, but it still transferred about $1.2 billion to the Lottery Profits Education Fund in fiscal year 2019. Last year around this …
Ohio citizens, educators, parents and lawmakers are speaking out against the newest State Board of Education of Ohio resolution, which opposes federal protections for LGBTQ+ youth. State board member Brendan Shea introduced the “Resolution to Support Parents, Schools, and Districts …