Today, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page weighed in on Attorney General Marc Dann’s apparent coordination with a teachers’ union to attack Ohio’s charter schools. The issue was first uncovered by the Columbus Dispatch. Dann’s actions drew immediate criticism from education reform groups. Read our previous post here.
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This morning’s Wall Street Journal focuses attention on Ohio’s hyper-aggressive new attorney general. In the story, Buckeye Institute President David Hansen points out that an anti-business environment is the last thing Ohioans need.
“The big problem is that we have a dismal economy,” says David Hansen, president of the conservative think tank the Buckeye Institute, [...]

After a recent exposé in the Columbus Dispatch, the Center for Education Reform and the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools expressed concern over Attorney General Marc Dann’s coordination with the politically powerful Ohio Education Association (OEA) in shutting down charter schools.
From the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools:
Ohio Alliance files public records [...]

Lawyers’ paperwork on limiting campaign contributions arrives late
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Julie Carr Smyth
Associated Press
Columbus- Well over half the lawyers required to limit their campaign contributions to Attorney General Marc Dann in order to qualify for state work didn’t fill out the required paperwork until this month, long after the office began doling out contracts, according [...]