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Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) November 02, 2011 Ohio Education Matters and KnowledgeWorks announced today that two national education leaders ? Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute and Lily Eskelsen of the National Education Association ? will speak in Columbus Nov. 9 on the implications of the outcome of Issue 2 on Ohio?s ballot. The speakers will be featured at a post-election breakfast from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Worthington DoubleTree Hotel, 175 Hutchinson Ave., Columbus OH 43235. Registration for the event is at http://www.ohioeducationmatters.org. The event is free and open to the public. It will be streamed live by following a link on the Ohio Education Matters website. Breakfast will be served beginning 7:30 a.m. ?The outcome of Issue 2 will affect national discussions about education policy,? said Andrew Benson, executive director of Ohio Education Matters, a subsidiary of KnowledgeWorks in Cincinnati. ?Ohio is a battleground state for many reasons, and this i...

Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) November 10, 2011 National education leaders ? Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute and Lily Eskelsen of the National Education Association ? shared different perspectives on the failure of voters to approve Ohio Issue 2 during a breakfast sponsored by Ohio Education Matters and KnowledgeWorks with the Ohio Education Service Center Association. Voters repealed the measure that would have overhauled Ohio's collective bargaining law for public employees by 61 percent to 39 percent of the vote. Eskelsen, a vice president at the NEA, said the outcome of the vote was being watched closely in Ohio because "we are all Ohio," she said. "We are not ideologues. We think you are looking for revenue in the wrong place when you go after employees in the public sector." Hess said the vote on Issue 2 and similar activity in Wisconsin and Indiana shows that "public employee unions are being challenged in a way that they have not been c...