Billirakis resigns

September 14, 2006

Michael Billirakis, former president of the Ohio Education Association, has resigned from his position on the STRS Board, effective September 15, 2006. Billirakis is scheduled, along with three other former STRS Board members (two of whom are former OEA Executive Committee members), to be arraigned September 19, 2006 in Franklin County Municipal Court in Columbus on charges of ethics violations while serving on the STRS Board. Two other former STRS Board members, Hazel Sidaway and Jack Chapman (also former OEA Executive Committee members), were convicted of ethics charges earlier this year.