{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Public Education Matters","title":"Stop SB 295 - Why Ohio lawmakers must not repeat the failed policies of the past and what they need to do instead","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1776,"description":"Senate Bill 295, which is being rushed through the Ohio General Assembly in the final days of Lame Duck, represents a state overreach that punishes communities for their poverty and hurts public school students and educators. Ohio educators must act now to help our lawmakers understand why it must be stopped. OEA's Director of Government Relations joins us for this episode to explain what's in SB 295, and the president of the East Cleveland Education Association explains how SB 295 doubles down on the failed policies of state takeovers under House Bill 290, rather than focusing on the real needs of the students who need the state's support the most.\nTAKE ACTION NOW | Click here for the OEA Action Alert to help contact your state lawmakers and express your opposition to Senate Bill 295\nTELL YOUR STORY | Click here to record a short video to share on social media to help Ohioans understand why SB 295 is bad for Ohio's students, educators, and communities.\nWATCH THE SENATE HEARING | SB 295 got its first, and possibly only, hearing in the Ohio Senate Education Committee on Tuesday, December 10, 24. Watch it here, with discussion on SB 295 starting about 24 minutes into the recording.\nFeatured Public Education Matters guest: \nDan Ramos, OEA Director of Government RelationsDan Ramos is from Lorain, Ohio, where he attended school at St. John the Baptist and Lorain Southview High School.  After graduating high school in 2003, Dan obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science, International Affairs and Philosophy from Baldwin Wallace College in Berea, OH in 2007.  Through the 2008 presidential election cycle, he joined the Obama for America campaign, working to help elect President Obama in northeastern Ohio.  In 2009, Dan was hired by the Service Employees’ International Union (SEIU) District 1199 WV/OH/KY.  Initially working with SEIU as an Administrative Organizer, representing and negotiating contracts for SEIU’s state employees’ division, he became SEIU 1199’s...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/qLU1HXpO0BWjHZ9wsRqLDb3niD3HIo0pJs38nc-jHtg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE3NTcwLzE2OTEw/ODIxNjctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}