Education advocates held a small rally outside of 鈥檚 office, calling for him to investigate the now-closed . Democrats are trying to connect the Republican gubernatorial nominee to the online charter school scandal. There鈥檚 a back-and-forth on the ECOT debate that will likely last the entire campaign season.
Steve Dyer with the liberal think tank says DeWine needs to hold a criminal investigation into ECOT.
鈥淲e now know that this was a massive scandal, we now know who鈥檚 responsible for it, and now it鈥檚 time to hold people to account,鈥� he said.
Dyer accuses DeWine of trying to protect ECOT because .
But DeWine鈥檚 office says this is out of the Attorney General鈥檚 jurisdiction. DeWine鈥檚 gubernatorial campaign is hitting back saying the Democratic party and its nominee for governor, , also accepted money from ECOT. That is true, though the money is much less than what DeWine and the Ohio GOP received.
