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NPR’s State Impact in Ohio reports Sarah Fowler Goes From Egg Farmer to Youngest Ohio Board of Education Member
Fowler tells EAG one of her main goals is to help shape new homeschooling regulations the board will consider next year:
While Ohio’s home school laws are fairly lenient already, “it is still a lot tighter on some regulations than other states are[,” she said]. “That’s my overarching goal,” Fowler said. “Is this helping or hurting the parents we are supposed to be servicing?”
Since homeschooling is a small piece of the Ohio education population, caution might be in order with a potential one-issue tenure, as laid out in the above quote. It does appear Ms. Fowler campaigned extensively and did her research. From State Impact referenced EAG News’ profile of Sarah Fowler:
“I was the only candidate that was willing to discuss all of the schooling options,” Fowler said. “Both of my opponents were only willing to represent one of the educational options in the state, and we have eight.”
Congratulations to Sarah Fowler and good wishes for the Ohio education climate with the new board addition.
Mark Stevenson said on January 18, 2013
Ohioans for Educational Freedom lined up the article on Sarah Fowler with regard to EAG New.com as you will see at the end of the article we are mentioned. we are a dedicated statewide Political Action Committee to home schoolers in Ohio and have successfully got five people elected to the State Board of Education, along with putting up one appointee for an At-Large seat that has been the building blocks for positive change for home schoolers in Ohio. We assisted Sarah in her efforts to get elected. We just published an exclusive interview with Sarah about her campaigning experiences and her first board meetings.