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Ohio state superintendent of public instruction finalist led job search for the position for months before applying, emails show
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A candidate on the brief listing for the open state superintendent of public instruction place led the superintendent seek for a number of months, which offered him entry to his opponents’ functions and different data, in accordance with a batch of emails obtained by cleveland.com/The Plain Seller.
Steve Dackin was vp of the Ohio State Board of Training earlier than resigning on Feb. 25, a Friday. He submitted his utility for the superintendent job the next Monday and the window for accepting functions ended the following day, March 1.
The 46 emails and e-mail chains cleveland.com/The Plain Seller obtained from an Ohio Division of Training public data request present that starting Nov. 29, Dackin was in command of the search on behalf of different state board members. He was the particular person division workers contacted with questions through the search, together with Beth Fletcher, the division’s interim chief operations officer, who has managed the search.
Dackin was among the many first folks to see superintendent functions of different candidates, emails present.
He helped make modifications to the commercial for the job, in accordance with emails. The emails additionally reveal that he lead a committee that looked for a private-sector agency to assist the state board discover a new superintendent, together with scoring corporations that utilized for the contract.
He communicated progress on the search to different members of the Ohio State Board of Training, the emails present.
Cleveland.com/The Plain Seller reached out to Dackin with an inventory of questions on whether or not he’s unfairly positioned among the many now seven remaining candidates the complete board is contemplating for the job.
He didn’t reply to the questions. As a substitute, he replied that a number of the data the publication is looking for might be present in written responses that he and the opposite six candidates had been requested to undergo the Ohio State Board of Training. Nonetheless, he didn’t present that doc along with his responses, and advised the publication to get it via the division. Cleveland.com/The Plain Seller now has one other data request in with the Ohio Division of Training to acquire it.
Dackin owes the general public solutions, stated Catherine Turcer, government director of Frequent Trigger Ohio, authorities group.
“The factor that’s necessary about that is that we have now as a lot transparency as doable in order that we will perceive what occurred and whether or not he was trying to get himself the job inappropriately,” she stated. “Proper now, we have now quite a lot of questions and issues look odd. It’s not sufficient to do the professional forma, ‘I put my resignation in earlier than I utilized.’ You dotted one ‘i’ however what about all of the ‘t’s?’”
Former board members can apply for positions within the company they’ve overseen, so long as the job search course of is open and honest and “it’s clear that they didn’t use the place, whereas on the board, to safe the job, and that the very best and most certified candidate is chosen for the job,” in accordance with an Ohio Ethics Fee abstract of the legislation that was offered to Dackin when he requested if he ought to give up the State Board.
The state superintendent of public instruction is the training chief in Ohio, answerable for the training of 1.8 million Ok-12 college students. The place requires administering the college funding system, non-public college vouchers and standardized assessments, issuing college and district report playing cards, growing tutorial requirements and mannequin curricula, offering educators with skilled growth, licensing academics and different educators, amongst different work.
On Feb. 24, Dackin wrote to an lawyer who runs the Ohio Ethics Fee, saying that he was “considering making use of” for the superintendent job, which turned vacant when former Superintendent Paolo DeMaria retired in September.
“It’s my understanding I might want to resign the state board of training appointment sooner or later within the course of,” Dackin stated. “Right here’s my query: Ought to I resign my state board place earlier than I submit my utility or wait to see if I’m provided the place? Thanks within the advance in your help.”
Paul Nick, government director of the Ohio Ethics Fee, despatched Dackin a three-page abstract of state ethics legislation for members of state boards, in accordance with a separate set of emails obtained by cleveland.com/ The Plain Seller. The abstract says that board members can not search employment with the company they oversee. Nonetheless, they’re free to use for employment as soon as they turn out to be former members.
“Briefly, it’s best to resign previous to taking any motion to use for this place,” Nick replied in an e-mail later that day.
Dackin resigned from the Ohio State Board of Training the next day.
Turcer stated that the timing of the resignation is a matter.
“We have to higher perceive, was this a final minute, ‘Oh my gosh, no person’s making use of, what ought to I do? This doesn’t appear proper to me, I believe I ought to apply?’ Or was there a course of put in place to do that actually thoughtfully?” Turcer requested.
Dackin retired from his earlier job over college and neighborhood partnerships at Columbus State Group Faculty on Dec. 1 to concentrate on the superintendent search.
“As you recognize, I’ve been requested to guide the seek for our state’s subsequent Superintendent of Public Instruction, which is underway as I write this letter,” he wrote Oct. 21 to Dr. David Harrison, the college’s president, in asserting his departure. “That duty, together with different rising duties with the state board of training, now requires my important time and a spotlight.”
Dackin leaving a full-time job to concentrate on the State Board, of which he now not a member, might not look good from an ethics point-of-view, Turcer stated.
“We don’t need any individual doing two completely different roles on the identical time,” she stated. “We wish a board member who’s searching for a superintendent to be truly searching for a superintendent and never being in any manner self-serving.”
Board members have been tight-lipped concerning the candidates, largely discussing their deserves in closed-door conferences.
Twenty-seven folks utilized for the state superintendent job. The board lately narrowed down the listing to seven candidates and interviewed them earlier within the month.
On Thursday, the complete board is predicted to carry a closed-door assembly to think about the seven candidates. Then, in a public assembly, the board will take a roll name on every candidate.
The highest three candidates who obtain a majority of votes will advance to a second spherical of interviews.
No. 18 Michigan State extended its win streak to seven games with its 69-62 victory over Ohio State on Thursday.
The Spartans went into Columbus and were able to pull off the road win, despite blowing a 14-point lead in the second half.
It was a valiant late-game effort for Michigan State, which improved to 12-2 on the season and is 1-0 to start 2025. The Spartans are also 3-0 in conference play.
Our Aidan Champion recaps the contest on this postgame edition of the Michigan State Spartans Insider Podcast.
You can watch the episode below:
Michigan State senior center Szymon Zapala led the way with 15 points. He also recorded two blocks. Spartan senior guard Jaden Akins did his part on offense as well, scoring 14 in the victory.
Redshirt freshman guard Jeremy Fears Jr. was arguably the MVP of the game for the Spartans as he posted 6 points, six rebounds and seven assists.
Sophomore forward Xavier Booker had a bounce-back performance after falling off in his last two outings. He finished with 9 points and two blocks.
Junior forward Jaxon Kohler nearly ended up with another double-double, scoring 8 points while collecting 10 rebounds.
Sophomore forward Coen Carr tallied 11 points. He was efficient from the charity stripe, knocking down 7-of-8 free throws.
The Spartans were tested by veteran guard Bruce Thornton, who was a huge part of the Buckeyes’ comeback late. They also had to deal with Ohio State’s leading scorer in the contest, junior guard Micah Parrish, who finished with 13 points and also excelled down the stretch.
Michigan State struggled from deep in the contest and continued to have trouble turning the ball over. But it was able to overcome those issues and secure the road win, a tough feat in the Big Ten, especially considering the setbacks.
The Spartans will look to build on their perfect start to conference play with a home matchup against Washington on Thursday. It will be the first time the two teams face off since 2010 when Michigan State narrowly defeated the Huskies, 76-71, in the Maui Invitational. That game is set for 8 p.m. EST.
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The Ohio State Buckeyes look like a buzzsaw at the moment, and Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian is well aware of that fact.
Ohio State will be facing Texas in the Cotton Bowl next Friday with a trip to the National Championship Game on the line, and Sarkisian understands that the Longhorns are big underdogs.
The Buckeyes have opened as 5.5-point favorites over Texas, which actually seems like a rather slim margin considering what they just did to the previously undefeated Oregon Ducks.
But keep in mind: the Cotton Bowl will actually be played in Arlington, so the Longhorns technically have homefield advantage.
Still, it will be difficult to find anyone outside of the Lone Star State actually picking Texas in this game, and Sarkisian knows that.
“I need Longhorn Nation to show out in Arlington. We’re going to need everything we’ve got to try to win this game,” Sarkisian said, via Eleven Warriors. “Clearly, we’re massive underdogs. Nobody’s going to give us a shot. So we’re going to need all that we can to try to win this game.”
The Longhorns are one of the best teams in the country, but they don’t quite match Ohio State in terms of raw talent.
We saw the Buckeyes’ scary talent on display in the Rose Bowl, when they jumped out to a 34-0 lead against Oregon and ultimately came away with a 41-21 victory.
Meanwhile, Texas nearly lost to the Arizona State Sun Devils in the Peach Bowl, surviving in a double-overtime thriller.
Of course, stranger things have happened on the football field, so Ohio State absolutely cannot take the Longhorns lightly.
Ohio State coach Jake Diebler previews Michigan State, Big Ten play
Ohio State coach Jake Diebler previews Michigan State, Big Ten play in this Jan. 2, 2025 press conference.
Devin Royal’s internal clock told him he was out of time.
The green-and-white-clad crowd of 14,797 was screaming as the Ohio State freshman held the ball, and likely the game, in his hands. A Tyson Walker free throw had just pulled Michigan State even against upset-minded Ohio State with 6.4 seconds remaining as Royal tried to get the Buckeyes set up for a final shot. Frantically, the freshman looked for his primary outlet to inbound the ball only to find the Spartans had taken it away.
“I’m counting in my head,” Royal said Thursday, thinking back on the moment. “I’m at five (seconds) myself, so I’m trying to hurry up and get it in.”
No whistle blew, and Royal managed to thread a pass into Bruce Thornton amid three Michigan State defenders. What happened next set off a celebration not seen in 12 years: Thornton pushed the ball up the court, found Dale Bonner along the 3-point line and fed his teammate for a game-winning shot that swished through the net with 0.2 seconds remaining.
The shot will live on in Ohio State lore as the first road winner against the Spartans since William Buford’s jumper lifted them to a share of the 2012 Big Ten title in the final game of the regular season. It also snapped a 17-game road losing streak for the Buckeyes. But while Bonner’s name gets the headline for the play, that shot doesn’t go in – and Ohio State isn’t in position to shock the Spartans – without the first true standout game of Royal’s career.
On that Sunday afternoon, Royal finished with 14 points on 6-of-6 shooting and added two steals and two rebounds in the most playing time of his freshman season to that point: 17:54. It was a glimpse of why the Pickerington Central product had been such a coveted recruit, one who picked the Buckeyes despite a hard push from Michigan State coach Tom Izzo.
Friday night, those two teams meet for the first time since Bonner’s shot when the Spartans come to Value City Arena in the lone matchup between Ohio State and Michigan State this year. This time, Royal features prominently atop the scouting report amid a breakout sophomore season that was hinted at last season.
He leads the Buckeyes in rebounding (7.5 per game) and is second in scoring (14.8) after averaging 2.4 and 4.7 last season, respectively. It’s the kind of growth players sometimes show from freshman to sophomore seasons, but coach Jake Diebler said that’s not exactly how Royal’s summer went.
“At times you can just assume (that growth) is going to happen, but there’s a work, there’s a mentality, there’s a maturity required to make that jump,” Diebler said. “He was a little inconsistent with that at times in the summer. We talked about it. He owned that, and then he took off because I think he was honest with himself.”
When the Buckeyes reported for fall camp, Diebler said Royal had flipped the page and quickly began to assert himself as a high-level player.
“You’re seeing a great deal of benefit from the hard work and mentality he had really starting in August,” the coach said. “He’s a great story about what I want our program to be about. I want guys to come in and grow and get better and he’s certainly done that.”
When Ohio State returned from holiday break, Royal was hardly able to practice due to an illness that had him questionable for the Dec. 29 home game against Indiana State. He gutted out 19:44, finishing with 13 points and four rebounds in the 103-83 win against the Sycamores.
In two Big Ten games this season, Royal leads Ohio State in scoring average (20.0) and rebounding average (7.5). For the Buckeyes to knock off No. 18 Michigan State, Royal will have to play a big part.
Just like he did last year.
“It taught me a lot,” Royal said of that experience. “It’s a very physical game. Tom Izzo definitely put in them (the mentality) to be physical a lot. I know coming into this game I have to put it into some of the younger guys who might not know about it.”
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