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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Finn unloads on education in Ohio
Checker Finn
Over at the opinion page’s blog, Editorial page editor Ellen Belcher noticed that Fordham Foundation President Checker Finn, a Dayton native, unloaded on his home state for its education policy under Gov. Ted Strickland in a column that was published in the Wall Street Journal.
Even for Finn, who often ruffles feathers with pointed commentaries, this column has raised eyebrows. There is no love lost between Strickland, who has professed high skepticism about school choice, and Finn, who is perhaps the nation’s most important school choice champion.
And to some extent the column is a pre-emptive strike against Strickland’s promised education overhaul, due next year. Many school choice fans fear Strickland’s main goals will be to dismantle as much of the 1990s Republican efforts at education reform as possible, which could threaten the future of school choice programs. Fears are especially high after Strickland successfully forced out state Superintendent Susan Zelman, who implemented much of the Republican agenda over the last decade.
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