ECOT. Republican corruption in Ohio Education.

From ProgressOhio.org

2013

Early summer, 2013

Dayton teacher Matthew Blair calls and emails the Ohio Department of Education to tell them about test tampering and other irregularities at the Horizon Science Academy of Dayton. Blair said no one responded. Horizon schools are managed by the Chicago-based Concept schools and affiliated with the Gulen movement, named after Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric living in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania.

Aug. 2013

The Kasich Administration announces it is hiring David Hansen for the Ohio Department of Education’s newly created position of “executive director for the office of quality school choice and funding.’’ He will be paid $105,000 annually to improve state oversight of Ohio’s chronically embattled charter schools.

The Columbus Dispatch includes this in its piece on Hansen’s hiring:

Hansen, 56, has long been outspoken against teachers unions, and in 2007 he penned an op-ed for the Ashland Times-Gazette with the headline “Teacher unions hurt school competition.” In it, he said school districts should “fundamentally reform their teacher union contract policies to expand the reach of market accountability.”

Multi year scandal, lots & lots of sources with details.

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