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Lawyers for New Choices Community School, one of three in the Dayton area that Attorney General Marc Dann sued last year, said Dann's attempt "to assert regulatory power over public education runs afoul of separation of power principles in the Ohio Constitution.” They argued, in a motion filed with Montgomery County Common Pleas Court, that the Attorney General's powers do not allow him to close a charter school simply because he believes that the school is not satisfactorily attaining its charitable mission. House Speaker Jon Husted, a charter school advocate, has raised similar objections to the lawsuits, saying Dann has crossed into territory that should be reserved for state lawmakers and the Department of Education. Lawyers representing the school also object to the relationship between Dann's office and the state's largest teachers' union, the Ohio Education Association, which dropped its lawsuit against the state over its charter school program after Dann took his own legal action.
Source: Akron Beacon Journal
Date: 01/04/2008
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