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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
State moves to take Goff’s license
Roseda Goff
The Ohio Department of Education will seek to strip former charter school superintendent Roseda Goff of her teaching license.
Goff, who was convicted of trying to obstruct official business last month, has refused to surrender her teaching license as a judge asked.
Rebekkah Brewer, a probation officer, said she spoke Monday with the Ohio Department of Education and Montgomery County Juvenile Court Judge Tony Capizzi sent a letter asking for her license to be revoked after Goff missed a deadline Capizzi set for her to surrender it voluntarily.
“They are taking the necessary steps to have her license permanently revoked,” Brewer said.
Karla Carruthers, an education department spokeswoman, said she could not comment on Goff’s case but said, “anytime an individual is ordered by the court to surrender his or her license, and that person fails to do so by the time allotted, ODE will begin disciplinary actions to revoke that license.”
Brewer said Goff has otherwise followed her sentence as instructed, paying her $500 fine, performing her community service and meeting with probation officers.
Goff was convicted in December of a misdemeanor charge of attempted obstruction of official business after former City Day teachers testified she discouraged them from reporting cases of suspected child abuse to law enforcement as they are required to do by Ohio law.
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Obama backs charter schools
Presidential candidate Barack Obama hasn’t put too much detail to his education positions so far. But in an interview with the politics Web site Politico Obama used his support of federal aid to charter schools as an example of his willingness to take positions outside of the mainstream for his party.
Obama also talked up his support of teacher pay raises based on performance and acknowledged that the big teachers’ unions are not thrilled with these positions. The Politico story suggests these positions might be a bridge to reach out to Republicans and right-leaning independents for support.
This post also appears on the Education Writers Association’s Education Election blog.
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