{"id":253,"date":"2020-06-28T12:36:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/?p=253"},"modified":"2020-06-28T12:36:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:36:25","slug":"oea-testifies-in-opposition-to-senate-bill-320","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"OEA Testifies in Opposition to Senate Bill 320"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/files\/2020\/06\/OEA-Legislative-Watch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-240\" src=\"http:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/files\/2020\/06\/OEA-Legislative-Watch.jpg\" alt=\"Headliner\" width=\"600\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/files\/2020\/06\/OEA-Legislative-Watch.jpg 600w, https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/files\/2020\/06\/OEA-Legislative-Watch-300x32.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>On Wednesday, June 24, 2020, OEA President Scott DiMauro presented opponent testimony on Senate Bill 320 (Matt\u00a0Huffman-Lima) to the Senate Education Committee.\u00a0 The bill would leave decisions on reopening schools for the upcoming 2020-2021 school year in the hands of local school district boards of education and would prohibit state\u00a0officials from preventing reopening, ordering closings, or requiring school districts to adopt health safety measures and guidelines for addressing COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>In his testimony, President DiMauro stated, \u201cOEA\u2019s top priority remains the health and safety of our students, members, and the communities we serve. OEA believes that any decision on re-opening schools next year must be driven by guidance from public health officials. While OEA supports local control, we also support the authority of the Governor and public health officials to make decisions that are data-driven and scientifically-based to keep our students and educators safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/click.email.nea.org\/?qs=cedf84a289dfec38bb8270c56ae897a6bdf99ffc64e8cafc11b05a6b52b96a50c76b19390e6acb59c7d348345355c534a691335ae4f3278b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click.email.nea.org\/?qs%3Dcedf84a289dfec38bb8270c56ae897a6bdf99ffc64e8cafc11b05a6b52b96a50c76b19390e6acb59c7d348345355c534a691335ae4f3278b&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1593433136448000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEmZZBwlby5jtq25qpL6n_K9P8saQ\">here<\/a> to read the entire SB 320 testimony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, June 24, 2020, OEA President Scott DiMauro presented opponent testimony on Senate Bill 320 (Matt\u00a0Huffman-Lima) to the Senate Education Committee.\u00a0 The bill would leave decisions on reopening schools for the upcoming 2020-2021 school year in the hands of local school district boards of education and would prohibit state\u00a0officials from preventing reopening, ordering closings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}