Democrats aim to shine light on how charter schools spend

taxpayer dollars
Do you ever wonder how the states private, for-profit help ensure charter schools in Ohio operate in a
charter schools spend their public dollars? New transparent, accountable manner.
legislation seeks to permit the
state auditor to track all taxpayer The proposed legislation follows a
money received by these state ruling against ECOT, Ohios
institutions. largest, failing online charter
school, for misappropriating at
I support state Rep. David least $60 million in taxpayer
Lelands (D-Columbus) legislation funds by falsely inflating student
which clarifies that money charter attendance.1
schools receive from the Ohio
Department of Education are public funds, and remain I believe Ohio taxpayers deserve a full and complete
public even in cases where charter schools use the accounting for every one of their hard-earned dollars
taxpayer dollars to pay management companies to invested in education, whether the money is directed
oversee daily operations. The state funds charter to public school districts or charter schools. Charter
schools receive would be subject to the same schools and their management companies shouldnt
requirements related to permissible expenditures and be able to hide their spending of taxpayer funds
auditing by the state auditor as state funds allocated behind closed doors.
to public school districts. 1
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/06/
state_school_board_votes_to_recover_60_million_from_ecot_
This bill seeks to close a loophole in state law and online_school.html

New common sense bill seeks to protect domestic violence victims

Legislation would separate deadly firearms from convicted abusers at judges discretion
In an effort to better protect victims of domestic The Domestic Violence Victim Protect Act creates a
violence, Reps. Nickie Antonio (D-Lakewood) and state-level enforcement mechanism that would
Janine Boyd (D-Cleveland Heights) recently unveiled require an individual to transfer their firearms to a
legislation requiring those convicted of a domestic law enforcement agency or a federally licensed
violence crime or served a civil protection order firearms dealer within 24 hours of the issuance of a
(CPO) to temporarily turn over their firearms to law court order. The legislation also adds federal law to
enforcement. Ohio statutes by prohibiting gun possession by
criminals convicted of misdemeanor domestic
According to Center for American Progress, the most violence charges and by those subject to permanent
dangerous time period for victims in abusive protection orders.
relationships is immediately after they file a civil
protection order.1 Additionally, the risk of homicide at Separating deadly weapons from a domestic abuser
the hands of an intimate partner increases eight helps protect victims during a dangerous time period.
times when a gun is in the home.2 By stopping gun violence before it starts, we can stop
burying innocent people who should have been
Dubbed the Domestic Violence Victim Protection legally protected under a CPO. I feel its simply
Act, the lawmakers proposal seeks to address this common sense: domestic abusers should not have
volatile time period by allowing judicial discretion in access to guns.
cases of temporary protection orders allowing a 1
judge to order the surrender of firearms while a http://genprogress.org/voices/2016/06/14/43887/when-guns-
restraining-orders-and-domestic-violence-collide/
temporary restraining order is in effect. 2
https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/
GunsStalkersBrief-3.pdf