Develop a coherent and concise education policy agenda centered on initiatives for presentation to state officials.
Ensure broad community representation in the decision-making process to include perspectives beyond administrative and advocacy groups.
Focus reforms on enhancing transparency, restoring board authority, and improving educational outcomes.
1. Curriculum Transparency and Parental Access
Require online public access to all current and prior-year curricula, instructional materials, and after-school program content.
Promote full disclosure of supplemental classroom materials and reading selections.
Reinforce political and ideological neutrality in classroom instruction.
Support parental rights to review educational content and participate in curriculum discussions.
Ensure all library books are educationally suitable and remove pervasively vulgar materials that are pornographic in nature.
2. School Board Oversight and Access
Affirm the legal authority of individual elected school board members to access school buildings and classrooms for oversight purposes.
Advocate for Ohio legislation reaffirming school board autonomy and transparency in governance.
Eliminate unnecessary administrative restrictions, such as escort requirements or background checks, that impede legitimate oversight functions.
Record all board meetings and make easily available online.
3. Accountability of Teachers and Administrators
Introduce a five-year performance review cycle for tenured educators to evaluate effectiveness.
Consider moving away from automatic step raises and transition to Merit only raises. The process is set by the board of education. • Streamline district administration by reducing bureaucratic redundancy and reallocating resources to direct classroom support.
Enforce existing policies consistently, including flag display, decor standards, and professional conduct.
Hold teachers and administrators accountable for not reporting inappropriate behavior to the state board of education.
4. School Climate and Cultural Issues
Remove Social Emotional Learning (SEL) programs to ensure focus on academic achievement and discipline.
Strengthen enforcement of anti-bullying and behavioral policies across all districts. Find alternatives to restorative practices that show effectiveness in correcting student behaviors
Maintain Cultural and Political climates in the schools that are consistent with our founding and cultural norms.
Mandate SRO documentation on all incidents on school grounds.
5. Professional Development and Institutional Alternatives
Encourage the creation of independent school board training programs that align with community standards and values.
Support the development of alternative networks to the Ohio School Boards Association (OSBA) for professional guidance and advocacy.
Promote the Ashbrook program and similar civic education models as examples of effective leadership training.
Explore partnerships with organizations such as the Leadership Institute and NSLBC to provide governance and policy education. Allow board members to join any memberships in trade, professional or training organizations. All memberships must be charged individually.
6. School Board Elections and Candidate Support
Recommend a standardized endorsement process for school board candidates through executive or legislative action.
Transition to partisan-aligned school board elections to improve transparency and voter awareness.
7. State Board of Education and DEW
Hold accountable all administrators and teachers who do not report inappropriate behavior that does not align with licensure professional code of conduct.
Allow all license reviews by the state board of education to show reason for review and what actions were taken.
Consider abolishing the state board of education and moving licensing reviews to county educational service centers and or local school boards.
Create higher standards for state of Ohio, specifically science of reading, to be compatible with Mississippi.
8. Teachers Unions
Promote alternatives to local education associations that fall in line with personal belief systems of teachers and prevent retaliation from choosing said alternatives.
Strengthen “Right-to-Work” or Worker Freedom Policies: Teachers cannot be required to join a union or forced to pay union fees. Membership tends to drop when teachers have freedom of choice.
Increase Transparency Requirements by publicly by posting union contracts online and posting of union political spending. Disclosure of how much dues go to political activity vs. member services.
Restrict mandatory collective bargaining and possibly limit bargaining to class sizes, curriculum, evaluations, and hiring & firing decisions, school calendars, work rules and assignment. When fewer topics are negotiable, administrators regain flexibility and unions have less leverage.
Reform State Labor Laws by procedures for impasse, strike rules, binding arbitration, deadlines for negotiations. Example reforms: prohibiting public-sector strikes, requiring both parties to bring final offers to the public, allowing districts to implement last best offers, ending “step and lane” salary schedules.
