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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Barone to not seek re-election

Mount Vernon Board of Education member Paula Barone has announced that she does not plan to seek re-election to the board. The announc...

Thursday, May 17, 2012

MV school board: Firing of Freshwater not of public interest

Attorneys for the Mount Vernon Board of Education on Friday asked the Ohio Supreme Court to refuse to hear the John Freshwater case becaus...

MV school board allows teaching of controversial issues

No, it’s not a new development. It has been the policy, at least on paper, of the Mount Vernon Board of Education to allow the teaching of ...

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Sam Stickle (mountvernon1805): Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States; AccountabilityInTheMedia.com was begun in 2009 to respond to inaccuracies in the media’s coverage of the John Freshwater and Mount Vernon Board of Education controversy. Since posting a response to The Columbus Dispatch editorial of January 7, 2009, “Teaching moment,” which was about Freshwater, I followed up with details from the state administrative hearing. Although I do have opinions about various aspects of the controversy— I support Freshwater’s right to have a Bible on his desk; I also support his right to due process—this website is not affiliated with Freshwater or any other party involved in litigation with the school.

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