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Justin Oakley, 35, is a self-described lifelong Hoosier, who has been a teacher for 10 years and is sick and tired of school reformers telling him and his fellow teachers how to do their jobs.
Oakley, who has been president of the Martinsville Classroom Teachers Association, had waged a months-long campaign to be nominated as Indiana’s Democratic Party candidate for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, but he dropped out of the race and is backing veteran educator Glenda Ritz for State Superintendent of Public Instruction against state schools superintendent Tony Bennett.
This is one of the most important education elections in the country. Because Bennett has pushed the privatization of public education further than just about any other state