Dean Dennis

The Governor’s signing into law HB 69, containing the Adam Bird amendment, left unchallenged, would change the composition of the STRS Pension Board from seven elected pension members and four political appointees to three elected pension members and eight political appointees.  This is unacceptable.

As most of you know by now, Ohio House Bill 96, Ohio’s annual operating budget bill, contained a nefarious amendment designed to eliminate the voices of Ohio's teachers. The amendment reconfigured the State Teachers Retirement Board by reducing the number of elected teachers from 7 to 3, while increasing the appointed members from 4 to 8. Simply put, appointed bureaucrats would replace the majority of democratically elected members. 

Last week, ORTA released a statement requesting donations from members. We shared that legal bills incurred fighting the case, which...