Ohio Senate votes to give governor's office control over public education
Citing "abysmal" state testing scores and high rates of absenteeism, Republicans in Ohio's Senate passed a bill to change who is in charge of public education.
Senate Bill 1, which passed 26-7 on Wednesday, would take control of Ohio's Department of Education away from a partially elected statewide board and give it to the governor's office.
"The system that is in place right now is a system that is designed to be slow and bureaucratic," Sen. Andrew Brenner, R-Delaware, said. "We don’t have time for bureaucracies when you’ve got passage rates in the low single digits on proficiency. When kids, hundreds of thousands of them, are behind."
The bill would rebrand the agency as the Department of Education and Workforce and create two, new deputy directors, one for traditional K-12 education and one for career technical education.
Republicans and Democrats are generally supportive of those ideas. Where they differ is who should get the top spot.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/01/ohio-senate-votes-to-put-governor-in-control-of-public-education/69957816007/
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