Jim Reed: Dennis Leone's reports should be required reading for any qualified STRS Board member or candidate

From Jim N. Reed, February 24, 2006

Kathie, again, thank you for your time and effort to keep this blog churning out STRS-literate information. Heaven knows, there are many educators who need to tune in on a regular basis.

After talking to Tom Curtis the other evening and suggesting Dr. Leone's 2003 reports be accessible on one of CORE's web sites it appeared like magic on your blog almost immediately.

The information included in those reports is so succinctly damning that I can not imagine any prospective, active, disabled, retired, rehired educator being left in the dark about what transpired in the STRS over the past decade.

It disgusts me to think that any contributing educator, employer, or tax payer would purposely remain ignorant about these obscene abuses that have rippled into all of our lives. Those reports need to be required reading for any qualified STRS Board member or candidate.

It seems to me that Dr. Leone's research documents are at the core of CORE and need to be visible and easily accessed as long as any of the abuses on the infamous list continues to exist. The shorter the list becomes the longer are our chances of reviving ORC 3307.15 to its ethical and legal intent.

Jim N. Reed