Gadfly now reads--courtesy of the Columbus Dispatch, a public-records request, and the Ohio Alliance of Public Charter Schools--that indeed Attorney General Marc Dann was doing the teacher union's bidding when he (a) settled out of court an ill-conceived NEA lawsuit against charter schools (that he likely would have won if it had gone to trial) and (b) tackled low-performing charter schools on his own, sparing the union the bother, using the bizarre and legally questionable instrument of the Buckeye State's "charitable trust" laws--a strategy actually suggested to him by an Ohio Education Association attorney. We knew there was smoke. Now you can see the gun.
"Teachers behind Dann's strategy?," by Catherine Candisky, Columbus Dispatch, October 2, 2007
"Teachers union suggested attorney general sue charter schools," Associated Press, October 2, 2007
