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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Ouch! Gordon Gee rips Checker Finn
Remember a few weeks ago when charter school champion Checker Finn unloaded on Ohio? The native Daytonian wrote in the Wall Street Journal that his home state was getting “poorer, older and dumber” while ripping Gov. Ted Strickland and the state’s education system. (a hat tip to editorial page Editor Ellen Belcher who first pointed us to the WSJ piece.)
Apparently Ohio State University President Gordon Gee was not amused. While visiting the DDN today, Gee shot back at Finn.
“Checker Finn is a bad academic, always has been,” Gee told the editorial board. “I don’t appreciate the fact that he would say something like that. He needs to have his data a little bit better.”
Ouch!
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