<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">This is just flat out disgusting. I am so disheartened by it and the fact that there doesn't appear to be a huge public outcry!! Frankly, I just don't know what to do. When individuals have no reasonable moral and ethical code that puts their public responsibility (whether elected or appointed) above their private gain, the citizenry doesn't seem to have a chance. </font></font></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" size="2"><br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" size="2"><br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" size="2"><br></font><div><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></font></font><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: R Scott Prigan <scott@columbuspace.org>
<br>Sent: Nov 17, 2013 5:55 PM
<br>To: anngift@aol.com, Ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
<br>Subject: Re: [Ohiogift] akron beacon articles on the state board
<br><br><zzzhtml><zzzhead></zzzhead><zzzbody>The Dispatch picked up this ABJ story too. Kind of amazing! <br>
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/11/17/lobbyists-deny-conflict-of-interest.html">http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/11/17/lobbyists-deny-conflict-of-interest.html</a><br>
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Dispatch also ran this one (hard to find on their site) from same origin:<br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ohio.com/news/local/ohio-s-state-school-board-shifts-emphasis-from-traditional-public-schools-to-parent-driven-choice-1.445521">http://www.ohio.com/news/local/ohio-s-state-school-board-shifts-emphasis-from-traditional-public-schools-to-parent-driven-choice-1.445521</a><br>
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It as much admits that swamping board with appointees was effort to avoid dealing responsibly with DeRolph!<br>
It really made me sick to read how so many of these appointees have agendas other than promotion of PUBLIC education.<br>
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Looks like might need an initiative to restore board to ELECTED only.<br>
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Scott<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">anngift@aol.com wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font color="black" size="2" face="arial"><font size="2">As some of the major figures in the gifted operating standards are covered in this article as well as in the side bar profiles, these are important articles for gifted advocates to read. <br>
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ohio.com/news/state-school-board-business-is-private-business-too-1.445561">http://www.ohio.com/news/state-school-board-business-is-private-business-too-1.445561</a><br>
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