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In my #OhioSOTS23 address, I spoke about the creation of a new agency, the Ohio Department of Children and Youth. This department will have children at the heart of its mission.
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Christina Collins
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Member of Ohio SBOE. Tweets/Opinions are mine. Tired of policy not working for people - joining the rebellion 
Advocate for Women, Kids, and Education.
Advocate for Women, Kids, and Education.Medina, OhioJoined August 2011
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If you haven't been able to tell, we're big fans of The Ohio Governor's Imagination Library in partnership with Dolly Parton! 📚 This program mails Ohio children five and under one book each month until their 5th birthday! ohioimaginationlibrary.org
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We can fix the child care system & make Ohio the best state to raise a family. Expanding PFCC to 160% FPL is a start, but we must go further to address the needs of young children & working families. Learn more from & : bit.ly/3l3V1BH
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Also code for the end of local control and local decision making. SB1 offers no solution to education issues in Ohio except centralize power and politicize education more than it already is. It's an expensive experiment that we already saw fail through ADC's.
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That’s code for, we can do what we want bc we have a super majority and there’s no accountability bc we’ve nuked the State Board of Ed’s authority with SB1. This is an “L” for the majority of Ohioans.
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Not sure who to make this plea to, but foster families should not pay taxes on the minimal amount made for providing respite care.
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Public education is one piece of a much bigger picture.
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Public education is not failing. Ohio politicians are failing to prioritize and invest in public education. twitter.com/OhioCapJournal…
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The education community in Ohio is encouraged by the governor's support of public school funding, but see red flags when it comes to increased private school vouchers, warning that they hinder Ohio's Full School Funding Plan.
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It's unbelievable to know this is happening to this extent in Ohio.
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@GroundworkOhio "The goal of reaching a first birthday should be the floor, not the ceiling of success. Yet, in Ohio, infant mortality rates continue to be worse than the U.S. average, with a large and appalling racial disparity..." ICYMI: lbus7do-cdn.newsmemory.com/?publink=21403
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Meryl Johnson. Who has been an incredible mentor and is the voice in my head encouraging me and also calling me out on my bs. ❤️
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As we begin this Black History Month, let’s look to the Blacks who inspire us to be better and to do more. Senator Vernon Sykes helps me with this 365. Now you go.
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As an educator who has taught AP, I’m disappointed with the omissions & changes to the AP African American Studies course. This is a college elective course 4 high school students & people like #APhilipRandolph & #bellhooks should not be given short shrift
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This is my budget score card for the proposal. How many areas will we make progress on? IF not NOW, When? #OHbudget #BestState
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This is disappointing 😕
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The College Board stripped down some of its AP curriculum for African American Studies after Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida threatened to ban it in his state.
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$15million in ’s budget proposal to provide training to high school teachers to be able to teach CCP. That would be a great investment - CCP costs less & is more rigorous when offered in-house vs. Sending kids to schools.
I….uh….hmm…🤔....But...yeah....😳
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Huffman said he likes the measures in the Governor’s proposal to encourage Ohioans to have more children. He connected a lower birth rate with lack of staff in restaurants.
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In the last 25 years, wages for college graduates have risen 28%. Wages for teachers during the same period, only 2%.
We’re calling on states and districts to increase teacher pay. It’s time our teachers saw the support and pay they deserve.
Livable wage = Respect.
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Absolutely agree. Appreciate this and the elevation of mental health.
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Again, I have to give the guy a little credit for investing the past 4 years in a student health and wellness budget line and now also doing this. No, schools shouldn’t be prisons, but schools who want them should get funding to provide SROs. twitter.com/darreldrowland…
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Again, I have to give the guy a little credit for investing the past 4 years in a student health and wellness budget line and now also doing this. No, schools shouldn’t be prisons, but schools who want them should get funding to provide SROs.
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Gov Mike DeWine win sustained applause after he says: "In this budget, we offer all schools -- again public and private -- who want a School Resource Officer, with additional state funding to help them do so"
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This is what ending local control looks like and will look like if SB1 passes. $$ tied to curriculum. All school funds would move to gov’s office under SB1
Actually glad to hear about ’s new department for Children and Youth Services. We need dedication and intentionality in this area and ODJFS has too broad an umbrella to do justice. (The DEW is still a terrible and disastrous idea, though). Here’s a resource:
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For many students, school based health care represents their only access to critical services like mental health, dental, vision, chronic disease management & immunization. The state of Ohio has a big role to play to improve school health in the #OHbudget: bit.ly/3Y6b3JB
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For many students, school based health care represents their only access to critical services like mental health, dental, vision, chronic disease management & immunization. The state of Ohio has a big role to play to improve school health in the #OHbudget: bit.ly/3Y6b3JB
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As the state of Ohio sits on billions in the rainy day fund, it's literally pouring on a daily basis for low income families struggling to feed their families...
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We compared Ohio to all 50 states using 15 indicators of how families are doing like infant mortality rates & median wages. In most, we’re at the middle or near the bottom. Let’s pass a budget that will give all families a chance to succeed. #OhBudget
policymattersohio.org/research-polic
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The budget is a moral document that reflects our priorities as a state – we must do right by the children of Ohio. That's why created a new #BudgetBook with 15 issue briefs outlining key policy opportunities to ensure all children can thrive: bit.ly/3HxH87m
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Our coalition partners know children do not come in pieces, and neither should our policy and budget decisions. Learn how we can maintain, protect, & strengthen resources dedicated to ensuring the well-being of all children in the 24-25 biennial budget: bit.ly/3HxH87m
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Funny you should mention that! Our E.D. was on with just yesterday discussing the rainy day fund! (A good episode all the way through, but if you're looking for Hannah's part, she comes in at the 36 minute mark.)
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Although the announcement from @GovMikeDeWine & @LtGovHusted that their budget plan will cut Ohio administrative code by 1/3 seems more about idealogy than anything else, the gov. has said he wants his administration to prioritize families. So we're taking him at his word. 1/
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This ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Again, moving power and building new cabinet-level education official positions (SB1) does not solve these issues. I’m tired of hearing “Ohio is 3_th (always changing) in education” without it being couched in these other low-ranking datapoints. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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But Policy Matters wanted to see how DeWine's claim
stacks up. So we tracked 15 indicators of family well-being. In many key metrics, Ohio ranks in the middle or near the bottom of all 50 states. 3/
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I’m a broken record, but the only winners here are those who want chaos for the sake of chaos bc they understand that undermining faith in public education is the only way to bring it down. The 90% who don’t want that have to find their way back to civil discourse. 2/2
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Absolutely love this work and the brain power behind the partners involved. Many of THESE suggestions are solutions to Ohio’s education issues - not the shell game of playing with power behind SB1. Come on, legislators, LISTEN to what will actually work.
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The budget is a moral document that reflects our priorities as a state – we must do right by the children of Ohio. That's why @BudgetOhio created a new #BudgetBook with 15 issue briefs outlining key policy opportunities to ensure all children can thrive: bit.ly/3HxH87m
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Wow. Excellent commentary. Love this: It’s not “the” government, and it sure as hell isn’t their government. This is our government. We’ve established it to serve us, not them.
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New Editor Commentary: Decades of rampant pay-to-play political corruption in Ohio has summoned a breed of public officials who treat state government like a personal playground of private profiteering for themselves and their moneyed friends.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/01/26/ram
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Saw this on and wanted to share for tech businesses interested in HS interns. Link: linkedin.com/posts/geoffasm
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Let me extrapolate and opine. 1) When you make up problems it’s easy to make up the solutions. They’ve done that here. 2) They believe by centralizing power into 1 place they can now control education. They controlled it anyway. 3) It’s not a lie if you believe it & they do.
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Serious Q- how has the history of the functionality of the board been impacted by the 9 governor appointees? They haven’t always existed. Voters have said they want educators guiding education in Ohio w/7 of 11 elected members from education. Who is obstructing? Not the educators twitter.com/OhioGadfly/sta…
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Can't believe they busted out Bush's "soft bigotry of low expectations." I hope they defend standardized testing with the farcical Texas miracle next.
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I guess I have to appreciate the attempted consistency here from the GOP who’s been busy legalizing a Guns Everywhere Policy™️ for everyone else *except* them at work since guns are prohibited inside the Statehouse and their offices, but what a response after 3 mass shootings 😵💫
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Among the House rules amendments unsuccessfully sought by Merrin's side: measures to allow guns on the House floor and to specify that each session should start with a "Christian prayer" cleveland.com/news/2023/01/o
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What’s happening in OH’s House is SO weird…if only the 70% of Ohioans who voted for fair maps or the 250 opponent testifiers of various gun bills last year or the majority of Ohio that supports access to women’s healthcare knew what it was like to go unheard by those w/power 🤔
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This may be the most shocking change stemming from the Ohio House rules battle:
No longer will members be forced to vote on an amendment or substitute bill they haven’t previously seen
If nothing else, this would revolutionize lame-duck sessions
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What she said👇 👏👏👏
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Serious Q- how has the history of the functionality of the board been impacted by the 9 governor appointees? They haven’t always existed. Voters have said they want educators guiding education in Ohio w/7 of 11 elected members from education. Who is obstructing? Not the educators twitter.com/OhioGadfly/sta…
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Misguided resolutions have been introduced by non-educators; culture war crap that has bogged down the work: non-educators, who in some cases have no connection to anything public education. Again - who is doing the obstructing?
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Serious Q- how has the history of the functionality of the board been impacted by the 9 governor appointees? They haven’t always existed. Voters have said they want educators guiding education in Ohio w/7 of 11 elected members from education. Who is obstructing? Not the educators
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Ohio lawmakers have once again proposed an overhaul of the state board of education. Here are three reasons why this could improve education governance in the Buckeye State.
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Banning books seems pretty suspect.
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