The American Rescue Plan, Fair School Funding Plan, and You

<strong>ACTION ALERT: </strong><a href="https://ohea.org/actions/support-the-fair-school-funding-plan/">Urge your state Senator to support the Fair School Funding Plan now!</a><p><strong>Featured Education Matters guest: </strong></p><ul><li>Stephen Dyer, Director of Government Relations, Communications &amp; Marketing, Ohio Education Association<ul> <li>Prior to joining OEA, Stephen Dyer was the Education Policy Fellow at Innovation Ohio, a Columbus-based Progressive think tank, where he fights for the right of all Ohio’s children to receive a world-class education, regardless of where they live. He has authored several reports for IO that have sought to ensure the fundamental right of every Ohio child to a world-class education. He is widely considered one of the state’s top education policy experts, and one of the few people in the country with the experience of actually implementing and leading the debate on every major aspect of education reform from teacher quality to student achievement to school choice to equitable financing. He has been published in <em>Education Week</em> – the nation’s education policy newspaper of record, as well as <em>The 74</em> and <em>Real Clear Education</em>. He has been quoted extensively in the <em>New York Times, Washington Post </em>and <em>Rolling Stone</em>, among other publications.<em> </em>Dyer has headlined conferences and town halls throughout the state, and is one of the state’s most sought-after education policy panelists. He was the keynote speaker on Ohio’s charter school experience at the Cleveland Press Club.</li> <li>His 2011 report for Innovation Ohio, which called into question ECOT’s money-making practices, many have seen as the impetus for the eventual implosion of the school that has been revealed to be the state’s all-time, largest taxpayer ripoff and scandal. He has written extensive, groundbreaking reports for Innovation Ohio on school funding, charter schools, teacher evaluation, accountability and the Cleveland Transformation Plan. He spent