Campaign donations did not affect charter school legislation, says speaker

Campaign donations did not affect charter school legislation, says speaker

COLUMBUS — Ohio House Speaker 
William Batchelder angrily denied mounting allegations from conservatives and liberals alike that campaign donations from large, for-profit charter school operators influenced House Republicans 
to pass legislation last week that would water down regulations designed to stamp out poorly performing charters and hold operators accountable for how they spend taxpayer money.

“It’s a damn lie that they (the operators) had anything to do with what went on in the finance committee,” Batchelder
said.

But prominent supporters of charter
schools — including Chester E. Finn Jr.,
 an assistant education secretary during the Reagan administration — condemn House amendments to Gov. John Kasich’s two-year budget.

The changes would allow for-profit corporations to operate charter schools by applying directly to the Ohio Department of Education, without the oversight of nonprofit sponsors. Critics say that could prevent state officials from determining how public money is spent, and place the schools outside state public-meeting and open-records laws.

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Fucking Nazi.