http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/10/02/dann02.ART_ART_10-02-07_B2_5882UTI.html?sid=101
The Ohio Education Association (OEA), Ohio's largest teachers union, suggested the legal strategy that Attorney General Marc Dann is using to sue underperforming charter schools, according to an investigation by the Columbus Dispatch. When Dann filed the first of his lawsuits in September, the OEA dropped its suit against the State alleging it was not monitoring charter schools closely enough. Communications between Dann's office and the union, obtained by the newspaper through a public-records request, detail four months of amicable negotiations to settle the union's lawsuit. E-mails show that the legal strategy of using the schools' status as charitable trusts to show they were failing their promised mission of teaching children was suggested by Sue Salamido, an attorney for the OEA. A spokesman for Dann said the Attorney General was talking about using charitable-trust laws to close failing charter schools before taking office in January.
Source: The Columbus Dispatch
Date: 10/05/2007
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