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Public meeting on privatizing education
WARREN
The Trumbull County Superintendents Association will host a public countywide program about the costs and consequences of privatizing public education from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the auditorium of Champion High School, 5976 Mahoning Ave. NW.
Local superintendents will present information about the consequences of privatizing public education and how privatizing impacts their districts.
The program will include a presentation from William L. Phillis, executive director of Ohio’s Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding; he will speak about the impact of the privatization movement on public schools in Ohio.
For information, contact John Sheets, superintendent of Howland schools, at 330-856-8205 or Robert Wilson, superintendent of Lakeview schools, at 330-637-4921.
Missile-defense site
NEWTON FALLS
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Cleveland, announced that Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center is one of four sites in the country the Department of Defense is considering as a missile-defense site.
The Ohio National Guard reported that Camp Ravenna is one of four military installations that will have an Environmental Impact Statement, which is expected to take about two years. Before undertaking an EIS for a potential additional missile-defense site, the department has completed an extensive evaluation of sites that originally were announced for consideration in September 2013, a Guard spokesman said.
Other sites selected for an EIS are Fort Custer, Mich.; Fort Drum, N.Y.; and the Portsmouth Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape Training Area, near Rangeley, Maine.
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