State School Board Member Needs Educated
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 By Beth LearShocking but not surprising, one of our elected State School Board members, G.R. “Sam” Schloemer, is anti-public charter school. He’s even gone so far as to officially write a letter to a handful of new board members, asking them to oppose any public-charter school supporters when they consider whom to choose for President and Vice President of the state school board next month.
I wonder if he ever read his own webpage, where it claims, ”I have strived–and will continue to do so–to demand the highest results from the public school system of Ohio for all students.”
Mr. Schloemer, charter schools ARE public schools. And if you succeed at eliminating them, costs will go up. Keeping per pupil funding levels the same in our major urban schools districts will require property tax increases from several hundred dollars to several thousand! Shame on you for trying to manipulate your fellow board members to support anti-charter leadership. And shame on you for claiming to support ALL students when you clearly don’t.
I hope the voters of the 4th district in southwestern Ohio are paying attention to this.
May 29th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Saw this article in today’s Dispatch. Looks like Barack Obama is the new best friend of charter schools! Guess this means y’all will be endorsing hime for re-election in 2012, right?
Charter-school holdouts to lose out on stimulus cash
Friday, May 29, 2009 3:14 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — States will hurt their chances to compete for federal stimulus money if they fail to embrace innovations such as charter schools, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said yesterday.
Duncan was responding to a question about Tennessee, where Democratic state lawmakers have blocked an effort to let more children into charter schools.
“States like that would not be helping their chances,” Duncan said during a visit to a school in Alexandria, Va.
The federal stimulus law gives President Barack Obama an incentive to push the expansion of charter schools. The law set up a $5 billion fund to reward states and school districts that adopt innovations. The fund is part of $100 billion for education over the next two years.
“We want to reward those states that are willing to lead the country where we need to go and are willing to push this reform agenda very, very hard,” Duncan said.
“There are a number of states that are leading this effort, and we want to invest a huge amount of money into them, a minimum of $100 million,” he said. “And the states that don’t have the stomach or the political will, unfortunately, they’re going to lose out.”