The Ohio Supreme Court recently ruled on the Stewart v. Lockland case (Slip Opinion No. 2015-Ohio-3839), which is a positive decision for school districts. In its decision, the court upheld the lower court’s decision that Ohio’s Open Meetings Act did not require the district to hold a public pretermintaion hearing for Adam Stewart.
The Ohio Department of Education notified the school district that district employees falsely reported student-attendance data in order to improve their state report card for the 2010-2011 school year. At that time, Stewart served as a data…