Seven Ohio school board members are alleging in a new lawsuit that a Republican-backed overhaul of how the state oversees K-12 education violates the state’s constitution.
oversight of Ohio’s education department will shift later this year to a director appointed by the governor, instead of the State Board of Education and the superintendent it elects. As part of that process, many of the board’s other powers will be transferred to the new director and the department will be renamed the Department of Education and Workforce.
“ is a prime example of the broader movement by extremist-controlled governors’ mansions and legislatures to deprive communities of meaningful representation. In Ohio, these actions are contrary to more than seven decades of non-partisan control by directly elected representatives,” said Skye Perryman, President and CEO of Democracy Forward, a national legal services nonprofit that is representing the board members who filed the suit.
The state board members are asking for a temporary order to keep the changes from going into effect, and to eventually void the changes completely. The education overhaul has been controversial since it was first introduced in the Legislature in 2022.
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