Republican Ohio Senate candidate Josh Mandel took aim at Republican Gov. Mike DeWine for the state’s Education Department listing the New York Times’s 1619 Project curriculum as a teaching resource.
They pass this resolution, (which is) controversial, with very limited public input. And then after they pass it, they basically shut down their public comments section saying, you can t talk about this during our public comments section, Hartman told The Enquirer Thursday morning.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati Monday by Hartman on behalf of Daniel Regenold, a Cincinnati businessman, against the board and five individuals: board president Laura Kohler of New Albany; current elected board members Meryl Johnson of Cleveland, Antoinette Miranda of Columbus and Christina Collins of Medina; and at-large board member Martha Manchester of Lakeview.