Issue Position: Education
Issue Position
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein
Our nation would do well honoring and respecting the teaching profession. When children thrive and discover their passions, communities thrive as well.
Now more than ever, our public education system is under a series of excruciating attacks. There is an eagerness to destroy and privatize public education. Some see the billions of tax dollars in education as a means to make a profit. State policy changes including expanding vouchers, increasing funding for Ohio's failed charter school system and the unfunded mandates divert limited resources away from our local school districts. These attacks undermine our constitutional responsibility to establish a thorough and efficient system of common schools.
Teresa Fedor believes that strong public schools can resist the current tides of injustice, prejudice, racism, and inequality. As a veteran, educator, she will continue to partner to improve our public education system and vote against bills which threaten the modernization of public schools and the quality of education received by this generation of Ohio's children as well as future generations. The following is a summary of her accomplishments:
Stebelton Eyes MBR Fixes, Testing Overview for Lame Duck; Fedor
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Oct 21, 2014 -- Stebelton Eyes MBR Fixes, Testing Overview for Lame Duck; Fedor Wants Longer Safe Harbor Revisiting graduation exams for science, expanding Cincinnati's community learning center model and taking a holistic look at the entire testing regimen will be matters of priority in education policy during the
Investigation of Ohio Department of Education and charter-school
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Teresa Fedor, D-Toledo, echoed the majority of state school board members who have called for an independent investigation of the Ohio Department of Education's actions and close ties to "Superintendent Ross was quick to say that David Hansen acted alone in omitting data from failing online schools," he continued.
Fedor Calls For A Clean Investigation Into E-school's Alleged
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Aug 27, 2015 -- Fedor also today joined the growing chorus for the state's education agency to release public records created from the charter school grade scrubbing scandal that brought about the resignation of Ohio's top charter school official, David Hansen. The scandal also drew calls for State Superintendent Dick
State's top school choice official resigns after illegal e-school omission
www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/07/states_top_school_choice_offic.html
Jul 18, 2015 -- David Hansen, Ohio's top school choice official, resigned Saturday after leaving F grades for online schools out of key charter school evaluations -- a violation of state law. Teresa Fedor said Ross should resign for this "scrubbing" of charter school grades. The evaluations of charter school sponsors, also
Fedor calls for state's school chief to resign -- The Blade
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Jul 23, 2015 -- "The buck stops at Dr. [Richard] Ross." The Department of Education did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Ms. Fedor, the ranking Democrat on the state House Education Committee, said the decision to "scrub" charter school test scores before release of the sponsor evaluations is hypocritical
Schools Matter: For-Profit Charter Scandal for Mr. White Hat in Ohio
www.schoolsmatter.info/2006/04/for-profit-charter-scandal-for-mr.html
Apr 25, 2006 -- In Ohio, state officials continue to try to pry open the records of corporate welfare artist, David Brennan, of White Hat Management, Inc. Of particular Senator Fedor said she is suspicious of how Allison Perz, who is executive director of the council of community schools, attained her position and if her
Loose Change | Scene and Heard | Cleveland Scene
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May 18, 2005 -- Since then, he has opened 31 charter schools that now enroll 15,000 kids, making his company, White Hat Management, the ninth-largest school district in the state. Brennan's "We're creating a loophole to reward the worst schools in Ohio," says state Senator Teresa Fedor (D-Toledo). "This is a shell
Charter school's lease deals scrutinized -- News -- The Columbus
www.dispatch.com/article/20141012/NEWS/310129826
Oct 12, 2014 -- Imagine Columbus Primary Academy projects building-lease payments of $700000, making rent the school's top expense, eating up more than half its annual state Teresa Fedor, D-Toledo, a leading Democratic voice who has tried for years to call attention to problems with Ohio's charter--school system.
Charter school sponsor gets a "free pass" from failing grades with split
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Aug 28, 2017 -- CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A prominent charter school sponsor will avoid potential penalties for the failing grades of its schools thanks to a special exemption in state law and by formally Fedor said that it is unfair for the council to avoid accountability, given that they were the real agency overseeing the schools.
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http://www.toledoblade.com/Education/2016/02/26/State-issues-report-cards-to-criticism.html
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