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Union member election results

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We spolighted all the union members who were running for election to the Ohio General Assembly.

Day 1: Union members running for the Ohio House
Day 2: Union members running for the Ohio House
Day 3: Union members running for the Ohio House
Day 4: Union members running for the Ohio House
Day 5: Union members running for the Ohio House
Union members spotlight - State Senate

How did they do*? 7 lost, 2 very narrowly, but 19 will advance to the general election, including 11 teachers. While Eric Spicer lost, so too did his opponent, the SB5 voting incumbent Rep. Jarrod Martin.

DISTRICT NAME UNION Result Winner
HD 7 Matt Patten (D) LABORERS Winner  
HD 16 Todd Laveck (D) OFT Narrow loss Andrew Meyer
HD 20 Marco Miller (D) IAFF (Ret.) Loss Heather Bishoff
HD 21 Donna O’Connor (D) OEA Winner  
HD 24 Maureen Reedy (D) OEA Winner  
HD 37 Tom Schmida (D) OFT Winner  
HD 45 Teresa Fedor (D) OFT Winner  
HD 47 Jeff Bunck (D) OEA Winner  
HD 57 Matt Lark (D) OEA Winner  
HD 58 Bobby Hagan (D) BLET Winner  
HD 61 Susan McGuinness (D) ONA Winner  
HD 68 Brad Schaff (D) USW Narrow loss John Ryerson
HD 69 Judith Cross (D) OEA (Ret.) Winner  
HD 71 Brady Jones (D) UAW Winner  
HD 72 David Dilly (D) UMWA Winner  
HD 73 Eric Spicer (R) FOP Loss Rick Perales
HD 76 Mary O’Toole (R) OEA Loss Matt Lynch
HD 81 John Vanover (D) USW Winner  
HD 87 Dennis Sterling (R) FOP Loss Jeff Mclain
HD 88 Bill Young (D) OEA Winner  
HD 95 Charles Daniels (D) OCSEA Winner  
HD 95 Jim Drake (D) OEA Loss Charles Daniels
HD 99 John Patterson (D) OEA Winner  
SD 6 Rick McKiddy (D) UAW (Ret.) Winner  
SD 20 Teresa Scarmack (D) OEA Winner  
SD 24 Tom Patton (R) IATSE Winner  
SD 26 Tanyce Addison (D) OEA Winner  

*As reported by the Ohio Secretary of State at 9am 3/7/2012.

How unemployed parents might affect your job

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A recent paper titled "Short-run Effects of Parental Job Loss on Children's Academic Achievement", found the following

We study the relationship between parental job loss and children’s academic achievement using data on job loss and grade retention from the 1996, 2001, and 2004 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. We find that a parental job loss increases the probability of children’s grade retention by 0.8 percentage points, or around 15 percent. After conditioning on child fixed effects, there is no evidence of significantly increased grade retention prior to the job loss, suggesting a causal link between the parental employment shock and children’s academic difficulties. These effects are concentrated among children whose parents have a high school education or less.

Parents becoming unemployed affect their children's academic achievement. Here's the unemployment trend for Ohio

As you can see, in recent years, unemployment in Ohio has escalated alarmingly to around 10%. That's a lot of students who have potentially been academically impacted by this trend.

We mention this because this is just one variable of many that isn't captured through student/teacher linkage, or the Value Add calculation, yet could critically affect student achievement and hence their teacher's evaluations.

What happens to these teacher level value add scores when a large local employer has mass layo-offs? Will it lead to lower performance evaluations for teachers in that area? Would that be fair?

These kinds of questions are going to need to be investiagted, and having silly web forms isn't going to cut it.

This week in education cuts

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Education cuts should be a wake up call

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While lawmakers begin to debate the administrations reckless budget proposal, it's plain for all to see that a more balanced approach is required to preserve our future, our schools and local economies. This is evident in a number of reports today

Devastating news from Cleveland

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - The Cleveland Metropolitan School Board voted to layoff 835 employees, 643 of those are teachers. The board also voted to close seven schools.

Columbus city also finds itself in trouble

The district is now looking at an estimated $16 million loss under a budget proposal that's being considered by the state legislature, and a potential $6 million loss from local property-tax collections because of falling home values, Harris said after a board meeting tonight.

She said it means that staff cuts are inevitable before the start of school this fall.

Delaware

The $2.5 million in cuts for next school year include eliminating 14 staff positions, limiting field trips and phasing out German and Latin classes.

"We understand, to really be financially able to get what we need, it's going to take a combination of the district making significant cuts and asking the community to support the schools through new money," Backus said.

Hudson

Hudson -- Almost 200 people, many of them wearing the blue union shirts of the Hudson Education Association, listened as the School Board on April 4 voted to eliminate 37 positions before the start of the 2011-12 school year.

The eliminated positions will save the district $2.9 million in salaries and benefits but leave about 34 people out of work, according to Assistant Superintendent Phil Herman.

These cuts should be a wake up call to lawmakers, to consider a more balanced, less reckless approach to the budget.