1 State Representative Teresa Fedor Candidate for Ohio Senate

State Representative Teresa Fedor Candidate for Ohio Senate - District 11 Public Service Overview

 Served in nine Ohio General Assemblies- 124th to the 132nd (2000-present)  Core Areas of Concern: Education, Labor, Election Reform, Veteran Affairs, Health/Safety, Government Oversight, Energy/Environment, Family/Children  2-term State Senator- Ohio Senate 11th District, elected 2002 and 2006  State Representative- Ohio House of Representatives . 52nd District, elected 2000 . 47th District, elected 2010 . 45th District, elected 2012, 2014, 2016  Educator- 18 years—Toledo Public Schools 16 years  Served- United States Air Force and Air National Guard

Representative Teresa Fedor is a Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives who has represented the 45th and 47th Districts since 2010. She was elected to the Ohio Senate in 2002 and served as a member until 2010. Prior, the citizens of Toledo elected her to serve the 52nd District of the Ohio House of Representatives in 2000. Due to term-limits, she is currently a candidate for the Ohio Senate, District 11 to continue her work in the Ohio Legislature.

A proud veteran, she served in the United States Air Force and Ohio Air National Guard, before receiving a B.S. in Education from the University of Toledo. She spent 18 years in the classroom before pursuing public service.

Throughout her legislative career, Teresa Fedor has championed responsive and responsible government to improve the lives of all Ohioans. A resounding theme throughout her public service is ensuring that government is transparent and accountable, guarding against waste, fraud, and abusive practices.

In the past, she has helped to unveil the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation coin scandal, worked to hold charter schools accountable to Ohio’s taxpayers and children, made certain that Ohio’s voting machines leave a paper trail, advocated successfully for laws against human trafficking, and worked collaboratively with the majority and the governor during the last several budgets. Her record of success is demonstrated by

numerous resignations of corrupt leaders, the closing of charter schools built on scams, and government reforms.

Protecting our most vulnerable young Ohioans is a driving force for her. Since joining the General Assembly, Representative Fedor has introduced legislation that will curtail the growing problem of cyberbullying of school children, will honor literacy and educational attainment among children by celebrating a “Dia de Los Ninos”, will create physical and health education standards in Ohio’s schools, will require background checks for volunteer coaches, will ensure that military children are given the same educational opportunities as other children, and will create a license plate and fund for bullying prevention education.

Representative Fedor has had unprecedented success in passing bills to fight human trafficking: in 2009, the Governor signed into law legislation that creates a penalty enhancement for human trafficking and created a commission through the Ohio Attorney General’s office to study the issue in Ohio; a year later, the Governor signed her legislation into law, making human trafficking a stand-alone felony; in 2012 Representative Fedor passed and the Governor signed Safe Harbor Act, her most comprehensive human trafficking legislation to date; Representative Fedor followed up with the End Demand Act, which was signed into law by the Governor in 2014 and tackles market-driven demand for human trafficking by increasing penalties for purchasing sex from minors; and hearings have begun on House Bill 461, legislation that works to protect minors by mirroring federal penalties for trafficking minors and helping survivors not be revictimized by the courts.

Representative Fedor is moving full-steam ahead as the 132nd General Assembly enters its last year. She has been hard at work fighting for Ohio’s most vulnerable from a variety of angles. House Bill 440, Ohio Health Security Act, will guarantee all Ohioans access to medical, mental health, dental, and vision care. House Bill 461, Protect Trafficked Minors Act, will have Ohio’s Revised Code mirror federal penalties for trafficking a sixteen or seventeen year old and will prevent courts from revictimizing survivors. She has introduced legislation to create a license plate and fund for bullying prevention education.

Representative Fedor has legislation in the works to make sexual harassment training mandatory for all state employees, the Safe Workplace Act, and to expand the type of sex- and gender-based crimes that mandate the collection of DNA. She is working on a resolution in support of Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur’s Return to Prudent Banking Act that would create a National Bank and implement some banking regulations in order to avoid another recession. Another resolution will call for the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to declare Lake Erie impaired as the water has remained unsafe for far too long.

Representative Fedor is the Ranking Member on the House Education and Career Readiness Committee and also serves on Armed Services, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security Committee and on Ways and Means Committee. She sits on the Ohio Arts Council and the Ohio Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Commission as the Chairperson of the Legislative and

Legal Subcommittee. She is a member of the American Legion, the National Conference of State Legislatures Criminal Justice Committee, and the National Conference of State Legislatures Education Committee. Awards:  Recipient for efforts in promoting literacy, Toledo Chapter of the IRA (1990)  Ohio Environmental Council Legislator of the Year (2002)  Second Harvest Food Banks Recognition Award (2002)  Maumee Valley Habitat for Humanity Appreciation Award (2002)  Phenomenal Women Award from L’aime, Inc. (2003)  American Heart Association Award (2003)  American Cancer Society - Ohio Chapter recognition on Senate Bill 81 (2004)  Ohio Assoc. for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Honor (2004)  Ohio Federation of Teachers Friend of Public Education Award (2004)  Anthony Wayne High School Hall of Fame (2005)  NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio Legislator of the Year Award (2005)  Ohio Parks and Recreation Association Legislator of the Year Award (2005)  Association of Joint Vocational Schools Public Servant of the Year (2005)  Bittersweet Farms Adult Autism Advocacy Award (2006)  AMVETS Ohio Legislative Award (2007)  Ohio State Assoc. of Veterans Service Commission Appreciation Award (2007)  National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Ohio Buckeye Chapter Award (2007)  Ohio Jewish Communities Outstanding Leadership Award (2007)  Jastram Award—American Association of University Professors, Ohio Conference (2007)  Lucas County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Award (2008)  NAACP- Toledo Unit – Outstanding Community Service Award for her efforts to keep Aunt Minnie’s Foods in Central Toledo (2009)  State Senator of the Year – Vietnam Veterans of America, Buckeye Chapter (2009)  Legislative Advocate Award - Ohio Commission on Hispanic/Latino Affairs (2010)  Lucas County Child Abuse Task Force Advocate Award (2010)  2010 Henry Toll Fellowship for State Government Officials  Friends of the Latino Community Diamante Award (2010)  Champion for Children Award from National Exchange Club (2012)  Safe Harbor Award from the Lucas County Human Trafficking Coalition (2012)  Legislative Leadership Award from the ACTION OHIO Coalition For Battered Women (2012)  Political Achievement Award from the Toledo Chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (2012)  Paladin Award—Free 2 Laugh, Toledo (2012)  Milestones Award from the Northwest Ohio YWCA (2013)  Legislative Champion for Children Award from Voices for Ohio’s Children (2013)  Legislator of the Year-Public Children Services Association of Ohio (2013)  Zonta Club of Toledo 2013 Woman Achievement Award  Justice League of Ohio 2013 Model of Justice Award  Elected Official Liberator Award (2014) 3

132nd General Assembly  State Representative; Ohio House of Representatives 45th District

House Standing Committees  Education and Career Readiness (Ranking)  Armed Services, Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security  Ways and Means

Select Committees  Joint Education Oversight Committee  Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Commission – Chair of Legal and Legislative Subcommittee  Governor’s Task Force on Human Trafficking  Ohio Arts Council  National Conference of State Legislatures Law and Criminal Justice Committee  National Conference of State Legislatures Education Committee

Bills Sponsored  H.B. 440: The Ohio Health Security Act will create a single-payer insurance system in Ohio to cover mental health, medial, vision, and dental care  H.B. 461: Protect Trafficked Minors Act will mirror federal penalties for trafficking a sixteen or seventeen year old and prevent the revicimization of trafficking minors by the courts

131st General Assembly  State Representative; Ohio House of Representatives 45th District

House Standing Committees  Education (Ranking)  Commerce and Labor  Armed Services, Veterans Affairs, Public Safety

Bills Sponsored

 H.R. 11: Recognizing National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, January 2015  H.R. 37: Recognizing Women’s History Month in Ohio, March 2015  H.R. 56: Recognizing April 14, 2015 as Equal Pay Day to encourage public awareness of the gender wage gap  H.B. 193: Expanding information redaction and confidentiality provisions  H.R. 214: Encouraging support for the agreement reached between Ontario, Michigan, and Ohio regarding the reduction of phosphorous in the western basin of Lake Erie  H.B. 234: Revising the law governing rape and sexual battery  H.B. 283: Expanding required DNA testing for misdemeanor sex offenses  H.B. 370: Addressing transfer agreements for ambulatory surgical facilities  H.B. 536: Requiring live broadcasts of all legislative committee meetings

130th General Assembly  State Representative; Ohio House of Representatives 45th District

House Standing Committees  Education (Ranking)  Policy and Legislative Oversight  Military and Veterans’ Affairs

Select Committees  Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Commission – Chair of Legal and Legislative Subcommittee  Governor’s Task Force on Human Trafficking  National Conference of State Legislatures Law and Criminal Justice Committee

Bills Sponsored  H.R. 19: Urging the President to sign into law the Violence Against Women Act, and its amendment the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. This resolution shows support for these important bills.  H.B. 130: Tackling market-driven demand for human trafficking by increasing penalties for purchasing sex from minors

129th General Assembly  State Representative; Ohio House of Representatives 47th District

House Standing Committees  Agriculture and Natural Resources (Ranking)  Education  State Government and Elections  Veterans’ Affairs

Bills Sponsored  H.R. 38: Recognizing that women in the Armed Forces are often in combat, and requiring proper equipment, training, and post-combat services for women  H.B. 155: Addressing cyber-bullying in schools and providing schools with the authority to keep the educational environment safe for all students; this bill was enacted under H.B. 116  H.B. 262: No longer incarcerating minor victims of human trafficking, and providing victims of human trafficking services to help them re-integrate into society; this bill was enacted into law in May, 2012  Amendment 1514 improved H.B. 194 by ensuring that if a military or overseas voter has signed a ballot envelope and is registered and eligible to vote that the ballot gets counted  H.B. 351: Establishing requirements governing well stimulation, brine disposal, and water that is used in the drilling and operation of oil and gas wells, including a requirement that oil and gas permittees pay a seven per cent overriding royalty for each well that is stimulated.  H.B. 493: Establishing a “Landowner’s Bill of Rights,” governing wells that are drilled into the Marcellus shale formation, including the creation of disclosure forms that must be presented to a prospective lessor of oil and gas mineral rights and to a prospective seller of mineral rights.  H.B. 498: Making volunteer coaches engaged by recreational youth athletics organizations or entities and game officials certified by interscholastic athletic regulatory organizations or associations subject to mandatory criminal records checks.  Amendment 4714 improved H.B. 555 by requiring all school treasurers – both in public and community schools – to be properly licensed as treasurers.

128th General Assembly  State Senator; Ohio Senate 11th District

Senate Standing Committees  Education Committee  Highways and Transportation Committee  State and Local Government and Veterans Affairs Committee (Ranking)  Government Oversight

Select Committees  Ohio Schools Facilities Commission  National Statuary Collection Study Committee  Military Activation Task Force  Ohio Arts Council

 Trafficking in Persons Study Commission – Vice Chairperson  State Council on Educational Opportunity for Military Children  Committee to Study Public Funded Child Care Services

Bills Sponsored  S.B. 11: Ohio Veterans Home Tax Check Off - Senator Fedor, a veteran, saw a need for veterans to be cared for in the twilight of their lives. This legislation would allow tax payers to contribute a portion of their income tax refund to the Ohio Veterans Homes.  S.B. 59: Ohio's Healthy Students Act would require the Ohio Department of Education to create K-12 Health Education Standards.  S.B. 63: was passed in the transportation budget in 2009. It created a Veterans Database through the Bureau of Motor Vehicles that connected Ohio vets with their benefits.  S.B. 104: will ensure that public employees in non-traditional work will receive a proper amount of Military Leave so that they may perform their National Guard duties.  S.B. 114: designates August as Ohio Military Family Month. This bill was passed as part of the biennial budget.  S.B. 115: Senator Fedor successfully amended the Interstate Compact for Educational Opportunity for Military Children into the biennial budget. It is now law and Senator Fedor sits on the Commission created by the legislation.  S.B. 118: would recognize April 30th as "Dia de Los Ninos" or Children's Day. Children's Day would celebrate children as Ohio's future, center and priority.  S.B. 126: the Cyber Bullying Prevention bill - would require electronic acts to be included in Ohio's school harassment statute. It will also require training on cyber bullying prevention in schools and allow administrators to discipline for acts of cyber harassment that materially disrupt the educational environment.  S.B. 174: Safer Passing Legislation - An avid cyclist, Senator Fedor introduced this "bike-partisan" bill with Senator Mark Wagoner to make Ohio's streets safer for our over 1 million cyclists. It will require not less than a 3-foot clearance between vehicles and bicycles.  S.B. 176: the Prevention First Act-an abortion reduction bill, would require that insurers cover contraception in insurance policies and allow emergency contraception for victims of sexual assault.  S.B. 188: is a bi-partisan effort to allow counties to create Land Banks. Land Banking allows empowered entities to transform blighted property to productive use. It is an answer to the foreclosure crisis and highly sought after by local governments. Senator Fedor introduced this as an amendment during the Budget process, but it was passed as a dual-sponsor with Senator Mark Wagoner.  S.B. 235: SB 235 created a stand-alone felony for Human Trafficking. This bill was passed and was signed into law in December, 2010.  H.B. 449: Senator Fedor’s bill, co-sponsored by Senator Keith Faber, was amended into House Bill 449, which became law in June of 2010. The amendment provides public safety employees with paid military leave of seventeen 24-hour days. This is the equivalent of 408 hours within one calendar year. Before this, non-traditional employees such as firefighters and emergency medical technicians were forced to take unpaid leave to perform military 7

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127th General Assembly  State Senator; Ohio Senate 11th District  Served as Minority Leader for the Senate Democrats

Select Senate Committees  Rules & Reference  Joint Legislative Ethics Committee  Legislative Service Commission  Capitol Square Review & Advisory Board  Ohio Historical Society Board  Legislative Task Force on Redistricting, Reapportionment and Demographic Research

Bills Sponsored  S.B. 131: would have created Physical Education standards for children in kindergarten through eighth grade.  S.B. 205: Senator Fedor amended Senate Bill 205 into HB 280. SB 205 created a Human Trafficking enhancement in the Ohio Revised Code and the Trafficking in Persons Study Commission. The bill was signed into law by Governor Strickland in 2009.  S.B. 385: was titled "Act for Our Children's Future". It would have required the Department of Education to establish standards for comprehensive sex education.

126th General Assembly  State Senator; Ohio Senate 11th District  Served as Minority Whip (third in command) for the Senate Democrats

Standing Senate Committees  Education (Ranking Member)  Environment and Natural Resources  State & Local Government and Veterans Affairs  Rules

Select Committees  Ohio Schools Facilities Commission  Legislative Office on Education Oversight  Ohio Partnership for Continued Learning  Ohio Retirement Study Council  Ohio Accountability Task Force  Ohio Ballot Board  Ohio Turnpike Oversight Committee  Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board

 Ohio Government Telecommunications Committee  Legislative Information Systems Committee  Governor’s Advisory Council on Fitness, Wellness, & Sports  Ohio Children’s Trust Fund Board  Ohio Military Reserve Homeland Security Study Commission  Committee to Study the Consolidation of School Districts  Public Benefits Advisory Board  Local Government and Library Revenue Distribution Task Force  NCSL Education Committee  Women’s Legislative Network of the NCSL Advisory Board

Bills Sponsored  S.B. 13: discouraged the outsourcing of jobs by requiring state contracts to include requirement that jobs be performed and supplies purchased within the United States.  S.B. 44: requires the State Board of Education, by December 31, 2005, to adopt the standards for physical education in grades K through 12 developed by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE).  S.B. 49: called for limiting the use of mercury in children's vaccines.  S.B. 101: proposes changes in the Election Law pertaining to the duties of the Americans with Disabilities coordinator in the Secretary of State's office, the training of poll workers in accordance with a standardized curriculum the Secretary of State must prescribe.  S.B. 104: authorized a refundable income tax credit for registered nurses who teach nursing at post-secondary educational institutions.  S.B. 110: creates a two-year moratorium on the establishment of new community schools sponsored by entities other than the school districts in which the proposed schools would be located.  S.B. 157: prohibits any person who holds a temporary instruction permit from operating a motor vehicle while simultaneously using a cell phone unless the motor vehicle is stationary.  S.B. 161: reinstated the appropriations for the Legislative Office on Education Oversight. LOEO provided a valuable and impartial service to the legislature regarding education policy.  S.B. 172: called on the Executive Branch to create a Department of Public Advocate.  S.B. 176: prohibited new start-up community schools in the "Big-Eight" school districts and Pilot Project Area (Lucas County) districts, unless the district is in academic watch or academic emergency.  S.B. 204: amends the Revised Code to provide an expedited foreclosure procedure for lands that have had delinquent tax charges for a specified number of years and that are not occupied.  S.B. 257: declared March as "Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month."  S.B. 296: requires the Ohio Parks and Recreation Association to develop and provide to each individual who participates in recreational youth athletics a Coach's Conduct and Ethics Policy for volunteer coaches involved in recreational youth athletics.  S.B. 328: is the Prevention First Act and it would require insurers cover contraception in insurance policies and allow emergency contraception for victims of sexual assault.

 S.B. 343: called for the Revised Code to provide a period of one or two years, depending on the circumstances, for the filing of assault or battery actions by victims of childhood sexual abuse based on abuse occurring within the past 35 years.  S.B. 344: requires community schools be subject to public audits.  S.B. 345: created school district task forces to address closing the achievement gap.  S.B. 346: called on schools to develop school-parent compacts.  S.B. 356: required law enforcement officers to be trained on identifying Human Trafficking and called for statewide awareness efforts.

125th Ohio General Assembly  State Senator; Ohio Senate 11th District  Served as Assistant Minority Whip (fourth in command)

Standing Senate Committees  Energy and Public Utilities (Ranking Member)  Education  Insurance, Commerce, & Labor  Judiciary on Criminal Justice  Rules

Select Committees  BioFuel & Renewable Energy Taskforce  Legislative Committee on Education Oversight  Ohio Schools Facilities Commission  Ohio Retirement Study Council  Ohio Autism Task Force  Joint Legislative Committee on Ballot Security  Ohio Accountability Task Force  Legislative Audit Commission Study Committee  Legislative Information Systems  Civic Education Task Force  Governor’s Advisory Council on Physical Fitness  Women’s Legislative Network of the NCSL Advisory Board  NCSL Legislative Effectiveness & State Government  NCSL Environment Committee

Bills Sponsored  S.B. 70: required the Legislative Service Commission to conduct a study of state agencies to determine the amount of available federal assistance for which agencies have not applied.  S.B. 81: required the State Board of Education to adopt standards and model curricula for physical education for grades kindergarten through twelve.

 S.B. 95: created the Legislative Audit Commission and the office of Legislative Auditor to conduct program evaluations of specified state-funded programs or activities or of state agencies and to make recommendations to the General Assembly on ways in which state-funded programs or activities or state agencies can operate more efficiently.  S.B. 104: authorized the Inspector General to enter into mutual agreements with state agencies for reimbursement of investigation costs and to inform agencies as to the purpose of the investigations.  S.B. 128: provided a respite for those sixty-five years and older from an increase in dog license registration fees or to establish a lower fee increase.  S.B. 141: would have made the bull frog Ohio's state amphibian.  S.B. 162: required the continuation of utilities for a person who is called to National Guard or reservist active duty under Operation Iraqi Freedom or dies while on such active duty.  S.B. 167: required a paper trail be created for all votes cast on a voting machine in the State of Ohio.  S.B. 194: required insurance plans to provide coverage for contraception.  S.B. 212: created a two-year moratorium on the establishment of new community schools and increased the penalty for community school fiscal officers who fail to report required data.  S.B. 268: created a refundable tax credit for nurses who teach at post secondary institutions.

124th Ohio General Assembly  State Representative; Ohio House of Representatives 52nd District, elected 2000

Standing House Committees  Energy and Environment (Ranking)  Finance  Education  Commerce & Labor  Rules & Reference

Select Committee  Joint Legislative Committee on Federal Funds

Bills Sponsored  H.B. 129: Permits county budget commissions to waive the requirement that local governments adopt annual tax budgets and accelerates the time frame in which a school district's base-cost payment is recomputed when a portion of its real and personal property tax revenue is uncollectable because a corporate taxpayer is in bankruptcy reorganization.  H.B. 392: Increases to $650 (from $500) the monthly limit on the compensation that must be paid by public employers to certain public officers or employees called to active military duty by an executive order of the President or an act of Congress. Language from this bill was eventually folded into 124 S.B. 164 and passed. It became law in November of 2001.  H.B. 565: Adopts the bullfrog as the state amphibian.

 H.B. 589: Requires school districts to include the study of foreign language in the district curriculum.  H.B. 630: Requires certain sickness and accident insurance policies, public employee benefit plans, and health insuring corporation policies, contracts, and agreements to provide coverage for prescription contraceptive drugs and devices and outpatient services related to the provision of such drugs and devices.

Affiliations  Toledo Federation of Teachers - Board of Directors Member - Building Representative -Intern Board of Review Member -AFL-CIO Delegate -Toledo Board of Education Curriculum Committee -Toledo Public School Testing Committee  Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women -Advisory Board Member  Single Parent Resource -Executive Board Member  Congressional Youth Leadership Council -Honorary Congressional Board of Advisors, 2005  American Legion  National Conference of State Legislators  National Caucus of Environmental Legislators  Women in Government  Women’s Legislative Network  University of Toledo Alumni Association  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)  Yell & Tell Against Child Abuse Member

EDUCATION ACCOMPLISHMENTS

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." – Albert Einstein

Our nation would do well honoring and respecting the teaching profession. When children thrive and discover their passions, communities thrive as well.

Now more than ever, our public education system is under a series of excruciating attacks. There is an eagerness to destroy and privatize public education. Some see the billions of tax dollars in education as a means to make a profit. State policy changes including expanding vouchers, increasing funding for Ohio’s failed charter school system and the unfunded mandates divert limited resources away from our local school districts. These attacks undermine our constitutional responsibility to establish a thorough and efficient system of common schools.

Teresa Fedor believes that strong public schools can resist the current tides of injustice, prejudice, racism, and inequality. As a veteran, educator, she will continue to partner to improve our public education system and vote against bills which threaten the modernization of public schools and the quality of education received by this generation of Ohio’s children as well as future generations. The following is a summary of her accomplishments:

Stebelton Eyes MBR Fixes, Testing Overview for Lame Duck; Fedor ... www.hannah.com/DesktopDefaultPublic.aspx?type=hns&id=197781 Oct 21, 2014 - Stebelton Eyes MBR Fixes, Testing Overview for Lame Duck; Fedor Wants Longer Safe Harbor Revisiting graduation exams for science, expanding Cincinnati's community learning center model and taking a holistic look at the entire testing regimen will be matters of priority in education policy during the ...

Investigation of Ohio Department of Education and charter-school ... https://www.ohio.com › News › Breaking News News Teresa Fedor, D-Toledo, echoed the majority of state school board members who have called for an independent investigation of the Ohio Department of Education's actions and close ties to ... “Superintendent Ross was quick to say that David Hansen acted alone in omitting data from failing online schools,” he continued.

Fedor Calls For A Clean Investigation Into E-school's Alleged ... www.ohiohouse.gov/.../fedor-calls-for-a-clean-investigation-into-e-schools-alleged-att... Aug 27, 2015 - Fedor also today joined the growing chorus for the state's education agency to release public records created from the charter school grade scrubbing scandal that brought about the resignation of Ohio's top charter school official, David Hansen. The scandal also drew calls for State Superintendent Dick ...

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State's top school choice official resigns after illegal e-school omission ... www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/07/states_top_school_choice_offic.html Jul 18, 2015 - David Hansen, Ohio's top school choice official, resigned Saturday after leaving F grades for online schools out of key charter school evaluations - a violation of state law. ... Teresa Fedor said Ross should resign for this "scrubbing" of charter school grades. The evaluations of charter school sponsors, also ...

Fedor calls for state's school chief to resign - The Blade www.toledoblade.com/Education/.../Fedor-calls-for-state-s-school-chief-to-resign.html Jul 23, 2015 - “The buck stops at Dr. [Richard] Ross.” The Department of Education did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Ms. Fedor, the ranking Democrat on the state House Education Committee, said the decision to “scrub” charter school test scores before release of the sponsor evaluations is hypocritical ...

Schools Matter: For-Profit Charter Scandal for Mr. White Hat in Ohio www.schoolsmatter.info/2006/04/for-profit-charter-scandal-for-mr.html

Apr 25, 2006 - In Ohio, state officials continue to try to pry open the records of corporate welfare artist, David Brennan, of White Hat Management, Inc. Of particular ... Senator Fedor said she is suspicious of how Allison Perz, who is executive director of the council of community schools, attained her position and if her ...

Loose Change | Scene and Heard | Cleveland Scene https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/loose-change/Content?oid=1490698 May 18, 2005 - Since then, he has opened 31 charter schools that now enroll 15,000 kids, making his company, White Hat Management, the ninth-largest school district in the state. Brennan's ... "We're creating a loophole to reward the worst schools in Ohio," says state Senator Teresa Fedor (D-Toledo). "This is a shell ...

Charter school's lease deals scrutinized - News - The Columbus ... www.dispatch.com/article/20141012/NEWS/310129826 Oct 12, 2014 - Imagine Columbus Primary Academy projects building-lease payments of $700000, making rent the school's top expense, eating up more than half its annual state ... Teresa Fedor, D-Toledo, a leading Democratic voice who has tried for years to call attention to problems with Ohio's charter-school system.

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Charter school sponsor gets a "free pass" from failing grades with split ... www.cleveland.com/.../charter_school_sponsor_gets_a_free_pass_from_failing_grade.. . Aug 28, 2017 - CLEVELAND, Ohio - A prominent charter school sponsor will avoid potential penalties for the failing grades of its schools thanks to a special exemption in state law and by formally ... Fedor said that it is unfair for the council to avoid accountability, given that they were the real agency overseeing the schools.

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LABOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

“Worker rights and job creation are two issues that directly impact the quality of life in Northwest Ohio. I have a longstanding relationship with the men and women in organized labor and look forward to our continued partnerships." -Teresa Fedor

Teresa Fedor, Strong Leadership for Labor/Workers

In an era of term limits, Teresa Fedor’s history and dedication makes her a strong and uniquely effective advocate for working families in Ohio. She applies her record of experience in the Ohio House by examining every piece of legislation, and every amendment to determine whether it advances our rights and assists with good job creation. Her tough but fair standards are noted on both sides of the aisle. Recently, the Senate dropped consideration of banning project labor agreements after she noted the folly of this concept and highlighted the severe safety problems arising when the Ohio Facilities Commission utilized similarly flawed tools in the past.

o Opposed SB 152 legislation and its attempt to ban project labor agreements.

o Continues to lead efforts on government transparency to ensure that no form of Senate Bill 5, so-called right to work, or any pernicious variant of it will ever be allowed to succeed in our state.

o Opposed Issue 2 / SB5 and engaged in active campaign efforts to oppose elimination of collective bargaining. When the doors of the Peoples’ House were closed during the battle against Senate Bill 5, Teresa Fedor flung them open, and won a legal victory to keep them open.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN FIGHTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Since 2005, Teresa Fedor has been the legislative leader for Ohio seeking solutions to address the complex issue of Human Trafficking Ohio. It is one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises worldwide and is on pace to surpass the drug trade in less than five years. Each year, an estimated 1,078 Ohio children become victims of human trafficking and 3,016 are at-risk. Ohio has become a hub for human trafficking due to its close proximity to Canada, large immigrant communities, and more colleges and universities than any other state. The more work we do, the more we are challenged to improve.

Over the years, significant progress has been made with Ohio’s response to trafficked victims. No story will be silenced and no research will be disregarded as we collectively strive to answer one question, “How can we end human trafficking?”

Every voice matters. In the end, the key goal is to promote healthy children, support families and build strong communities. Working together and listening to both survivors and experts has been the key to Teresa Fedor's success in authoring Ohio first and subsequent bills to combat Human Trafficking.

State Sen. Teresa Fedor laments seriousness of human trafficking in ... www.politifact.com/ohio/...fedor/state-sen-teresa-foder-laments-seriousness-human-t/ Dec 14, 2010 - The driving force behind passage of the bill was state Sen. Teresa Fedor, a Toledo Democrat, who began working on the legislation in 2005. During the Ohio Senate's floor debate on Dec. 1, Fedor gave a passionate speech comparing human trafficking, which often is a feature of prostitution rings involving ...

Strickland signs Fedor's human trafficking bill into law - Toledo News ... www.wtol.com/story/13734541/strickland-signs-fedors-human-trafficking-bill-into-law COLUMBUS, OH (WTOL) - Governor Ted Strickland has signed a bill into law Thursday to make human trafficking a stand-alone felony in the second degree. Senate Bill 235 is Senator Teresa Fedor's (D) final piece of legislation in her two terms as Ohio's 11th District State Senator and is a result of five years of work.

Child Sex Trafficking: A Statewide Problem | WYSO wyso.org/post/child-sex-trafficking-statewide-problem Jan 11, 2012 - Fedor says poverty and high rates of child abuse put children at risk, “They know people are desperate, they know children are vulnerable. These traffickers know exactly how to exploit situations like this.” Last year Representative Fedor passed legislation that made human trafficking a felony in Ohio.

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House bill targets 'johns' for first time - News - The Columbus Dispatch ... www.dispatch.com/article/20120613/NEWS/306139682 Jun 13, 2012 - House Bill 262, after swift approval by a legislative committee and the Ohio Senate yesterday, is scheduled for a final concurrence vote in the House today. ... The Safe Harbor Act, as it is known, also would shield juvenile human-trafficking victims from going to jail on prostitution charges, establish a fund to ...

Rep. Fedor's "End Demand Act" Becomes Law, Effective Immediately ... www.ohiohouse.gov/.../rep-fedors-end-demand-act-becomes-law-effective- immediate... Jun 20, 2014 - Teresa Fedor's (D-Toledo) End Demand Act, Sub. House Bill 130, was signed into law this morning in the presence of a coalition of supporters and notable trafficking survivors. Rep. Fedor has been working with the Governor's office and other interested parties over the last several months to pass House ...

Rep. Fedor Announces Funds to Fight Human Trafficking in Toledo ... mujerlatinatoday.com/rep-fedor-announces-funds-to-fight-human-trafficking-in-toledo/ $290K to provide prevention, protection, education to at-risk youth. COLUMBUS – State Rep. TeresaFedor (D-Toledo) announced today that $290,223 in state funding was released by the Controlling Board to administer a newly received Prevention Awareness of Trafficking Humans (PATH) AmeriCorps grant awarded by ... http://www.toledoblade.com/Education/2014/11/18/UT-plans-center-on-human- trafficking.html

Human Trafficking On The Rise In Ohio | The Statehouse News Bureau statenews.org/post/human-trafficking-rise-ohio Feb 2, 2017 - The Polaris Project says 375 trafficking cases from Ohio were reported to a national hotline last year. That's a 23% increase over the year before. Democratic Representative Teresa Fedor, who has worked to pass legislation to crack down on the problem, says she's not surprised. “Now that we are really ...

Join the fight against human trafficking - The Blade www.toledoblade.com/OpEd/2016/06/.../Join-the-fight-against-human- trafficking.htm...Jun 4, 2016 - Ms. Fedor and other anti-human trafficking coalition members, such as Celia Williamson of the University of Toledo, are constantly fighting for safer, predator-free environments for our children. However,

Human Trafficking (continued) change is also needed on the community level, and we need to ensure that our children are aware of ...

Ohio Human Trafficking Awareness Day & Youth Summit > Ohio ... mha.ohio.gov/Default.aspx?tabid=55&mid=2263&itemid... January 11-12, 9 a.m. @ The Ohio Statehouse Atrium State Representative Teresa Fedor is hosting the 9 th Annual Ohio Human Trafficking Awareness Day, which will include an Ohio Youth Trafficking Summit on January 12. For more information contact 614-644-6...

OHIO REVIEW ON WORKERS’ COMPENSATION FUND INVESTMENTS

In 2004, a memo from the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation indicated $215 million had vanished from state funds and has been missing since November 2004. Teresa Fedor is one of the leaders who initiated investigations that uncovered the Coingate corruption and held those involved accountable for their actions. The following is a summary of actions taken in the "Coingate Scandal:"

Ohio opens probe into coin assets - The Blade www.toledoblade.com/.../Ohio-opens-probe-into-coin-assets-Inspector-general- lookin...Apr 8, 2005 - The announcement that an investigation would start came only two days after Senate Democratic leaders, including Teresa Fedor of Toledo, sent a letter to Mr. Charles ... He is able to root out the waste, fraud, and abuse in state government, Ms. Fedor said. ... Related Items ohio government,coingate. Noe quits turnpike and regent panels - The Blade www.toledoblade.com/State/2005/05/11/Noe-quits-turnpike-and-regent-panels.html

May 11, 2005 - Marc Dann and Teresa Fedor said the Ohio auditor should conduct a review of all governor-controlled investments. ASSOCIATED PRESS Enlarge. COLUMBUS - - A day after the state said it would pull $50 million in investments managed by Toledo area coin dealer Tom Noe, he resigned yesterday from ...

Allegations arose before '04 election - The Blade www.toledoblade.com/State/2005/06/19/Allegations-arose-before-04-election.html Jun 19, 2005 - At the same time - beneath the surface and out of public view - allegations were swirling that Tom Noe had laundered contributions into President .... Teresa Fedor (D., Toledo) said in every election people "monitor information," and she questioned how federal authorities managed the information they had ...

Ohio's Disappearing Coin/Photo Trick - Daily Kos https://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/1/118422/- The Bureau of Workers Compensation is the state office that established the financial arrangements with Tom Noe's coin fund. ... Teresa Fedor (D., Toledo) called Mr. Petro a `Johnny-come-lately,' taking action 51 days after The Blade first reported that the bureau had invested $50 million in rare-coin fundscontrolled by Mr.

Sympathy for the Devil | Scene and Heard | Cleveland Scene https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/sympathy-for-the-devil/Content?oid... Mar 22, 2006 - "If Jon Husted was a decent man, he would call for a vote," says state Senator Teresa Fedor (D-Toledo). "If the church or religious institutions weren't ... To 20

Coingate Scandal (continued) celebrate, state Auditor Betty Montgomery is hiding information related to the massive Coingate scandal. Ohio law allows the work papers of public ...

Traveling Through Life Without a Map: Through the Cracks of the Coin ... mapmaker.blogspot.com/2005/06/through-cracks-of-coin-scandal.html?m=0 Jun 9, 2005 - The part that is slipping through the cracks right now is where the COIN FUND, a $55 million investment of OWC money to Tom Noe's Capital Coin .... At least Ohio State Senator Theresa Fedor is on top of this. ... And now we know because of Tom Noe, [Mr. Ulmer] has been doing so with state money.

Fedor urges inquiry of mortgage-lending actions - The Blade www.toledoblade.com/State/.../Fedor-urges-inquiry-of-mortgage-lending-actions.html Teresa Fedor (D., Toledo) yesterday asked the Ohio Department of Commerce to investigate whether Toledo area coin dealer Tom Noe or the state Bureau of ... letter to Commerce Director Doug White, Senator Fedor referred to reports in The Blade that Mr. Noe loaned state money to the real estate business of John Ulmer, ...

Legislator seeks 'victims' fund' for Westhaven homeowners - The Blade www.toledoblade.com/.../Legislator-seeks-victims-fund-for-Westhaven-homeowners.... Dec 20, 2005 - Teresa Fedor (D., Toledo), members of the Lagrange Village Council, and others upset byJohn Ulmer, who ran Westhaven until the Ohio Department of ... The state began investigating Westhaven after The Blade reported that Toledo-area busi- nessman Tom Noe invested more than $1 million in the ...

Noe gets 18 years in prison | cleveland.com www.cleveland.com/whateverhappened/index.ssf/.../noe_gets_18_years_in_prison.ht. Nov 21, 2006 - Toledo -- He teed off with the governor, dined on gourmet meals and wore tailored suits. Today, Tom Noe passes the day with predators, eats processed meatloaf patties and wears a prisonjumpsuit. A Lucas County judge Monday sentenced Noe, a former coin dealer, to 18 years in prison and fined him ...

Protecting our Water

Rep. Fedor, Lake Erie Democrats Urge Immediate State Action To Restore Health Of Great Lake, Safety Of Water Call for special designation of Maumee Watershed, highlight policy solutions

Toledo Blade August 08, 2014

"To seriously address harmful algal blooms in our state requires a firm commitment to significant reform from all parties involved,” said Rep. Teresa Fedor (D-Toledo). My colleagues and I are committed, and we know that the citizens of the Lake Erie region and of Ohio are committed. We hope now that the Governor and elected officials throughout the region will join in this commitment and we can all begin to work together to solve this crisis together.” Fedor also called on the governor to convene a multi-state task of Lake Erie state governors to develop long-term agricultural practices to ensure the sustainability of the Great Lake.

House Votes To Pass Toxic Algae Bill, Rep. Fedor Says More Work Needed To Protect Lake Erie Toledo Blade March 11, 2015

Tuesday the Ohio House passed a bill designed to help protect drinking water and combat toxic algae growth in Lake Erie. House Bill 61 comes a little less than a year after 500,000 Toledo residents were left without clean drinking water for three days after toxic algae blooms contaminated the water supply in the western Lake Erie basin.

“I appreciate the legislature’s efforts to keep Lake Erie safe and this legislation certainly makes some strides in doing so,” said Rep. Teresa Fedor (D-Toledo). “However, it’s taken us almost a year to make any progress, and we’ve not yet come up with lasting solutions. We must continue to work on this issue without delay; we have to do better.”

H.B. 61 also requires publicly-owned treatment plants to monitor phosphorus levels and report them monthly and to evaluate ways to improve reduction. The bill also includes a prohibition on the open-lake dumping of dredged material into Lake Erie and its tributaries.

The bill does not include an emergency clause, so it may not be enacted in time to make an impact on harmful algal bloom growth this spring and summer. The bill also does not encompass all farms that use a significant amount of manure on fields, including animal feeding operations.