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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 Voters repealed the measure that would have overhauled Ohio's collective bargaining law for public employees by 61 percent to 39 percent of the vote.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