The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.But House Bill 235’s sponsor, state Rep. Sarah Fowler Arthur, R-Ashtabula, told the Ohio House Primary and Secondary Education Committee that the bill also addresses what she claimed is a “serious omission of transparency and accountability” in the state education system.
For that reason, HB 235 seeks to reinstitute the rule-change meetings and public testimony and “ensure public accountability with an all-elected, partisan State Board of Education, gradually phased-in along congressional districts as current board memberships expire,” according to the bill sponsor. The whittled down, 15-member elected board wouldn’t be complete until 2027, according to analysis of the bill by the Legislative Service Commission.One other change to be made under the bill is the board’s nonpartisan status. If passed as written, the bill would move any State Board of Education member elections from the nonpartisan ballot to the ballot aligning with the political party for which the member aligns.
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