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• Tell Senator Portman to Support Paid Family Leave

  Just over 1 in 10 workers receive any paid days off to give birth and bond with a newborn or care for a sick family member. Ohio families shouldn't have to choose between a paycheck and caring for a loved one.

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• Demand Charter Accountability Today

  Ohio charter schools have cost taxpayers and local schools millions and have only resulted in substandard results for our children. Even charter school supporters have recognized that reform is needed to protect our students from a poor education and our tax dollars from misuse. Nearly every major newspaper throughout Ohio has called for reform: • “The state legislature must eliminate the poor oversight and lax rules for Ohio’s troubled charter schools.” – Plain Dealer, Jan. 2, 2015 • “Lawmakers have solid evidence that current charter-school law is broken, and credible suggestions for how to fix it.” – Columbus Dispatch, Dec. 22, 2014 • “In too many cases, charter schools in low-income communities perform worse than traditional public schools that serve the same neighborhoods and promote themselves deceptively to parents.” – Toledo Blade, Dec. 29, 2014 • “Currently, the management companies often have the upper hand, to the detriment of effective oversight.” – Akron Beacon Journal, Dec. 23, 2014

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• SUCCESS! See below for how you can help stop a veto override

  SUCCESS! On Friday, June 30, Governor Kasich announced that he had vetoed the provisiions in the state budget to limit or effectively end the expansion of Medicaid to low-income adults that would have caused 500,000 or more Ohioans to lose healthcare coverage. But the legislature says it has the votes to override the Governor's veto. Now, can you help by signing our petition to tell state lawmakers to let Governor Kasich's veto stand? https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-lawmakers-to-protect

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• Tell Lawmakers to Protect Medicaid, Let the Veto Stand

  Thanks to an outpouring of support, Governor Kasich heeded the call to veto a proposal in the state budget to end enrollment in the Medicaid expansion starting in July, 2018. <br><br> But lawmakers haven't given up. House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger has scheduled an unusual holiday-week legislative session for Thursday, July 6 at 9am, and has indicated there are enough votes in his chamber to override the Governor's veto (the bill received 59 of the 60 votes needed for a veto override, but some "no" votes came from conservative lawmakers who may be persuaded to flip). Senate President Larry Obhof, whose chamber passed the budget with a veto-proof margin has not scheduled a date to hold an override vote but expressed confidence his chamber would do so.

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