Steve Dackin, who began his job as State Superintendent one month ago, has resigned. Questions were raised about his selection since he was chair of the search committee. Dackin said the controversy was a distraction from the work.
Anyone from Ohio want to shed more light?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
All you need to do is repost your earlier post on this and it pretty much shows why this was a predictable outcome. The real question is how Andrew Brenner feels about the next nominee. If he likes him or her, that’s a real bad candidate.
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I think Dackin was allied with charter/voucher groups, he and allies pulled a ‘trump'(pun intended) and tried to aggressively expropriate the state superintendency, but he got caught and now he has resigned. This kind of aggression is characteristic of the GOP, go for it all (power/money) until you get caught politics, no room for rational or reasonable deliberation, only aggression and conquering like some mad beast.
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Some distraction. It seems that Dackin may have hired himself. I wonder if his contract came with a golden parachute. Maybe taht is why he hired himself so he could quit a few weeks into the contract and walk away with a boat load of cash.
One of the ten or more principals that were supposed to keep one of the public high schools in Los Angeles county, where I taught, working, ended up being let go 2 years into his 5 year contract because of all the discontent among teachers and staff he’d stirred up in his boiling witches cauldron due to his harsh Trumpish style tactics, and his parachute paid him about $500,000 to leave early.
My name for this creep was Mr. Hitler.
Before that school year was out, he was hired in a San Diego public school district as an administrator. One tactic to get rid of creeps like him is to not only pay them a massive amount of cash to go away but also provide a glowing but misleading letter of recommendation.
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Going forward, any chance the OFT will oppose a nominee from the charter school echo chamber?
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“In our quest to find the most highly qualified Superintendent, we’ve hunted everywhere, all around the country, state by state, city by city. We’ve searched high & low, beat the bushes, leaving no stone unturned. We vetted hundreds, interviewed dozens. After an exhaustive, painstaking process, your Search Committee is pleased to report we’ve finally made our selection: the chair of the search committee. All these months, the ideal candidate was right under our noses the whole time! Who knew?”
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LOL
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Fordham, the king maker?
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I am not a lawyer, but from what I gather on reading the summary of relevant state law sent to Dacklin by Paul Nick of the state ethics board, taking this position would not have been against the law unless he had campaigned or solicited for it while still serving on the Ohio State Board of Education, of which Dacklin was Vice President. For that to be the case, the position of state superintendent would have had to be one created by the board that Dacklin served on, or he would have had still to be a member of the board at the time that he made his application (a news report I read said that he resigned 72 hours before submitting his application for the position of State Superintendent). So, it looks as if, though this might seem a little smelly, it was not illegal.
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https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21746416-ethics-information-sheet-6_-board-member-seeking-employment-with-the-board-002
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That document was linked to in this story:
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/06/steve-dackin-ohio-superintendent-of-public-instruction-resigns-from-job-after-less-than-a-month.html
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The story does say however, the following:
“On Friday, Nick said in an email that state ethics law also prohibits board members from accepting compensation and other benefits from an employment contract authorized by a board they served on for one year after they leave the board.”
So, there might be some other applicable law in Ohio not mentioned in that first summary sent to Mr. Dacklin. It sounds as though Mr. Dacklin did take and appropriate step in consulting the ethics board and receiving that summary of the state law before making his application. But, again, I’m not a lawyer. This is, however, interesting.
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Ohio is a recipe for disaster–add this post to Schneider’s later one RE: Ohio’s passage of bill to arm teachers/school staff.
& to think (for just a very short while) DeWine actually did something to help his constituents (I think he was the first gop guv. to declare statewide mask mandate).
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